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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1942 PAGE '6 Section 1 Th New Anderson Play Goes On Broadway i BARRON Ki: i i. I I rV i i 7 LA, 1 i I Fredric March and Tallulah Bankhead are two oi the stars of Thornton Wilder's new play, 'The Skin of Our Teeth," which will be presented at Ford Theater the week of October 19 lis 1 si. By MARK New York. MAXWELL ANDERSON has returned to the wars in his ne.play, "The Eve of St. Mark," but this time with the viewpoint of a man from the small villages.

When, back in 1924, he and Laurence Stallings wrote the hilarious and bombastic picture of war "What Price Glory?" he was a cynical newspaperman from the copy desks of some of New York's and San Francisco's most exciting journals. Stallings had had about the same experience and they wrote that hit play with the attitude of reporters, saying "Here are the facts; you work out your own moral and conclusion." But, since then, Anderson has had time to pause and work out morals and philosophies of his own which have revealed themselves in more recent plays of his, as "High Tor" and "Key Largo." Thoughtful Play Now, in "The Eve of St Mark," he shows again a thoughtful, careful contemplation of the evils and hazards which young men face, and must solve for themselves, in this modern world of war and uncertainty. His story is that of Quizz West, a farm boy who is drafted from his family and sweetheart and sent off to war. In battle on a Pacific island against the Japanese he has a choice of standing firm to delay the enemy, although he knows it means his death, or he can retreat to safety and give up what has been gained. He decides that standing firm, with its inevitable death, is preferable to having a longer life knowing that he has been defeated.

The Playwrights Theater has given this an excellent cast with William Prince, Mary Rolfe and Aline MacMahon in the leading roles. Hour Of Youth Despite the fact that war demands have been draining Broadway stages of their younger performers, there has sprung up a. new crop of willing actors who are even too young to be threatened immediately by selective service. So they are not only acting, but also producing their own shows and it is an. unhappy mo-, ment, as they did this week with "Let Freedom Sing," when they almost succeed and just score a "Let Freedom is a new musical revue produced by the I AMUSEMENTS Head: Oast play is presented during June, July and August.

The present cast is composed of members of nearly every Christian faith and all of them are American citizens. The only display of acting on the part of the leading figure in the drama is said to be the seen in which the money changers are driven from the temple. Special student matinees, it is announced, will be given daily for schoolchildren. At The Gayety "Fast and Furious." a revue, opens at the Gayety Theater today with the usual Sunday matinee. It features Lucille Rand, dancer, and comedians Harry J.

Conley and Billy Foster. Muriel Angelus, an actress known to many movie-goers, and Arthur Maxwell in a scene from "The Merry Widow." The famous light opera will open at Ford's Theater tomorrow and play the week there Little Theaters mi Youth Theater, which is a development of a little theater group that used to play in small houses of audiences or neighbors, first in Brooklyn and then in Wisconsin and many other places before they arrived on Broadway. Move To Broadway Once they were here they produced their first two shows in hotel or studio theaters, but this week they brought their "Let Freedom Sing" to the Longacre, which is a hit Broadway playhouse. Starring that erstwhile sassy moppet of the movies, Mitzi. Green, the cast is mostly an assembly of unknown youngsters who simply want to be known better to regular Broadway managers and the youngsters make a valiant effort.

In a few scenes, sketches and dances they are very good and in others they resemble too much some of the amateur theater groups that used to crop up like mushrooms in Greenwich Village Bohemian playhouses. Miss Green is magnificent, although in some of her numbers, like "I Did It for Defense," she has poor material with which to work. She Is now a grown-up young lady with beauty and a winning, if not operatic, voice and In her singing of "The Lady Is A WAAC" and her serenade to an army private she couldn't find were moving combinations of singing, dancing and pantomine. Betty Garrett Scores The sketches and songs are mostly on topical subjects, and some of them are good and some are wesk. There is.

an excellent song, "Give a Viva," in which composer-lyricist Harold Rome is enthusiastic about the good-neighbor policy. He 'is considerably aided in this by the erstwhile ballet dancer, Betty Garrett, who demonstrates in this and several other numbers that she is a talented singer, dancer and comedienne. There are one or two numbers which probably would make many Congressmen on Capitol Hill blush with shame, especially in one sketch where an artful comedian named Berni Gould delivers a witty satire of a Senator who is trying gracefully to backtrack out of his isolationist policies into becoming an ardent enthusiast for the all-out war against the Axis. AMUSEMENTS COMEDY SsHingi by UIE1T 1IIISII Greatest Musical Play rmmnr nit bt rev Th eater Ford's PlaybiU Tomorrow "The Merry Widow." Revival of the famous light opera, with Muriel Angelus, British and American film actress, in the title role. One week.

Begins October 19 "The Skin of Our Teeth." New comedy with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Tallulah Bankhead. One week. Begins October 26 "Lady in the Dark." Gertrude Lawrence in the musical comedy hit by Moss Hart. Begins November 9 "This is the Army." Irving Berlin's soldier show, with a company of 300 military men. One week.

By DONALD KIRKLEY MURIEL ANGELUS, who came from London several seasons ago to appear in "The Boys From Syracuse," will make her first appearance on a Baltimore stage tomorrow night at Ford's in the title role of "The Merry Widow." She is no stranger, however, to film fans, having been seen in "The Light That Failed," "Balalaika," "Safari," "Of Mice and Men," "The Way of All Flesh" and 'The Great McGinty." Before her emigration to the United States she had acted in quite a few English pictures, Including a serial called "Lloyd of the C. I. She obtained her first role on the English stage when she was 12 years old in 'Henry VIII." Script Modernized Franz Lehar's original score be heard at Ford's this week, but the book and lyrics have been modernized by Rowland Leigh and Randolph Carter. The sponsors of the operetta declare that so many changes have been made In the script, that it is scarcely accurate to call this a revival. Others in the company are 'Arthur Maxwell, Edmond Dor-sey, William Kent, Nina Olivette, Virginia George, Austin Fair-man, Jack Stanton, Ronnie Cunningham, Jules Epailly, Donald Clark and Mary Dyer.

"The Merry Widow" had its premiere in Vienna in-1904, and its American debut at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York on October 21, 1907. It 'made the fortune of the composer, who was at that time an obscure bandmaster in an Austrian regiment. Its first performance in Baltimore took place at Ford's on January 4, 1909, and its has been revived many times on professional and amateur stages here. It was given as recently as last April by the Civic Opera Company at the Maryland. Now Captain Wilder The operetta will be followed October 19 by "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Capt.

Thornton Wilder, a comedy which will rank among this season's most memorable new offerings. The playwright's captaincy, by the way, derives from his current service In the United States Army Air Corps. To begin with, the new play has a most attractive cast, headed by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Tallulah Bankhead and Florence Reed. And the story It-elf, judging from the morsels of information supplied by the heralds. Is enough to arouse the liveliest curiosity.

Captain Wilder does not often write himself a drama, but he does, he shoots for the Pulitzer Prize. He won one such with "Our Town," and 'The Skin ef Our Teeth" is a much more ambitious project. A Big Canvas The earlier opus gave a cross-section of life in a typical New England village. The one which will be presented here by Michael Myerberg undertakes to give a cross-section of human civilization, no less. It is, as far as we can gather, a dramatization of the "plain man" set against a background which encompasses a good deal of the history of mankind.

This is a good trick, if the author can do it, and he has worked one small miracle in the theater. In "Our Town" he proved audaciously that scenery is not necessary. AMUSEMENTS LYRIC THEATRE Opining Sunday Oct. 25 Thru Nov. Th Qrsatast Dramatic Event Evar Staged World's Greatest Christua Portrayer In tha 11 i i i a Notabla Caat of 100 Advanea Seat Salt Sal.

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M. FORD'S BEG. TOMORROW NIGHT 8.30 SEASON'S FIRST BIG MUSICAL! ProdDelnc Associates Present Josef Meier Passion Play UNDER the auspices of the Cadoa Guild, the Black Hills Passion Play, featuring Josef Meier as the Christus, will be given in Baltimore at the Lyric Theater October 25-Novem-ber 8, inclusive. Mr. Meier, it is announced, will be supported by a cast of 100, and the play will be presented in twenty-two scenes with modern stage effects.

This year marks the seven hundredth in which this play, first given at Luenen, Westphalia, has been presented. Originally it was performed by the monks of the Cappenburg Monastery each year at Easter. In the seventeenth century the parts in the drama were assigned to the laity and the actors were chosen on the basis of moral fitness. At this time a tradition began in which children were trained to succeed the adults identified with the SUNDAY THROUGH WtDNtSDAY A PROBUM COMEDY Gary fean Hf SN9 i Ronald MANy 4rr rj 1 1 I I iiat.7 3 tAflA-AlEr ir i 91 a vunJ ATllBnAV 3 RICH GIRIS GROW UP! BARBARA VTA PillafXAf George BRENT TODAY MONDAY TUESDAY judy canova joe; e. brown In "JOAN off OZARK" WED.

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OF, a "1U MtnrfMiioeiotrs oiau OMtZTTASr Uf.TOATf tOO IWWCS fc rr assw various characters of the play when they grew up. Succeeds His Father Mr. Meier, a native of Luenen, is a member of the seventh generation of his family to play in religious presentations and succeeds his father in the role of the Christus. In 1932 he brought the production to this continent and translated the speaking parts into English for presentation here. In 1938 he became an American citizen and established a permanent home for the American production of the Passion Play near Spearfish, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where the Xhildi'enmPSS) DIG tVEEK? to 'WET' pYOUW TICKET TO KEITH'S TONIGHTS Si ALSO ADMITS YOU TO DANCE FREE TO BOB CRAIQ DAMP IsTARTINQ THURS.

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OAs TWO BARGAIN MATINEES- Three major productions have been planned by the Playshop of the Johns Hopkins University. The first, "The Cherry Orchard," by Anton Chekhov, is scheduled for November. The second, Fred-erico Garcia Lorea's "Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife," is scheduled for February. In April an original American play, to be selected by a board of judges from manuscripts submitted, will be produced. Four lecture programs have also been planned, each to be followed by the presentation of a one-act play.

In addition to the five scheduled performances of "The Cherry Orchard" in November, two extra performances will be given for the. benefit of Russian War Relief. A special evening for the benefit of the Greek War Relief has been planned, at which a lecture by Dr. Panos Morphopou-los of the Romance language department will be given, followed by the production of a modern Greek play. New Comedy "Slice the Ham Thin," the new musical comedy by Ed Hegh-inian and Al Moritz, will have its premiere tonight at Cadoa Hall.

The play will be offered by the War Bond Theater and the War Bond Drive Committee and admission will be by the purchase of $1 or more of war stamp in the lobby. The cast will include Neale Miller, Barbara Lord, Don Stadd, Betty Nuth, Grayce Schoolfield, Bernie Hoffman, Ken Allison, Clara Cedrone, Phyliss Tilley and Clifford Donnelly. Playshop Plans Earl Sennett has been named director of the Playshop of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, it has been announced by Gustave Bisgyer, executive director. At its first activity of the season the Playshop has begun rehearsals for "Watch on the Rhine," to be presented in mid-November. The cast Includes Jack Isadore, Raoul D'Mort, AMUSEMENTS THE CHILD STUDY ASSOCIATION presents A Rollicking Musical Play for Children DOODLE DANDY OF THE U.

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Bonney Concert Bureau 327 N. Charles St. LE. 6829 Open Thursday Evenings until 9 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Reginald Stewart, conductor 14 Thursday Evenings 6 Sunday Evenings 5 Saturday Mornings All Concerts at the Lyric Noted Soloists: Lily Pons. Rise Harold Bauer, Anna Kaskas, Joseph Schuster and others.

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Vagabond Players The Vagabond Players will open their twenty-seventh season on Wednesday with the production of Paul Osborn's play, "On Borrowed Time." Isabel Burger is directing the cast, which includes Chester Morrow, Mary Alvey, Dolly Ashley, Jane Strahan, Wallace Saunders, Delmar Solem, Thomas Erek, Roger Maxwell, Martin Murray, Tommy Burger and Robert Kriger. The setting was done by Stan English. Play For Children Coming October 24 "Doodle Dandy of the U. a fantasy for children, will be presented at the Lyric Theater the afternoon of October 24. Produced by Junior Programs, an organization which enacts plays for children, the play offers dancing, acting and singing.

It is being presented in Baltimore through the efforts of the Baltimore District, Child Study Association. "Doodle Dandy" tells the story of life in an American town at the present time. Old American ballads and folk songs have been adapted for use in the production by Elie Siegmeister. AMUSEMENTS Lyric Sat. Eve.

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