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'MM1 rr ft Lauglis From A Mis-Spent Life trfr Section II Page 5 March 19 ,1967 S. F. Sunday Examiner Chronicle and respected social worker in the black ghetto of enormous. The patrons are Elizabeth Berryhill Festival Theater's Non-Prima Donna actually listening to the sort of person who mokes people like them' buy chain-locks Petey will tell you he does it all for money. lie keeps a bundle of 200 dollar tills in his trousers pocket, not to spend, but simply to fondle.

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"I didn't even make it ij 1 1 ii in, ii i i i home," he recalls with smile. For years Petey was one of the reasons why it is risky to ZENITH PERSONAL PORTABLE TV 88.88 i-M go out on the streets of Washington after dark, lie was i holdup man in the capital's lusher environs, brandishing hi i .32 Smith and Wesson re T- volver at anyone who imped ed his random larceny He recently came out of prison after a four-year spell Zenith's quality handcrafted chassis in a lightweight, compact design to carry anywhere full-size 74 in. picture, with all-channel reception, front-mounted controls and speaker, built-in telescoping antenna and convenient carrying handle. for armed robbery on a su permarket and he Js on pa role until 1970. Every morn I ing he takes a small pill which racks him with nausea at the first sniff of alcohol.

So what else is new? Well, Petey is. He is taking sophisticated Washington by storm as the most original nightclub performer to hit this town In many a dreary year. Last week he played to packed houses at the Cellar G.E. PORTABLE COMPLETE WITH CART 128.88 Slim-line desitm. vet vou Troupers Without Rivalry When Elizabeth Berryhill was serving her country as a WAC officer In World War II, she saw enough "rank- happy" colleagues to vow sever to be like them.

1 And a decade later, on the A 1 1 a 1 1 Coast's summer circuit, her decision -was reinforced by the discov-i ery that "everybody was on ladder with people above them and below them. They were Uriah Heeplsh to the above and acted like Jlitler to the ones below. one had any Joy or tove or the happiness which 'comes from people working together as equals, shoulder 'to shoulder on some great project." And to this, her colleagues -'attribute much of the success cl the Festival Theatre of San Anselmo, Miss Berry hill's which has come to be recognized as one Of the top regional theaters In the country and one of Ma-grin's top tourist attractions. "A company without rivalry Is practically unheard of In the theatrical world," said one of the members, "but 1 that's Just what we have here." REVIEWS HISTORY Miss Berryhill, in an inter- view with The Examiner, reviewed the colorful history of the troupe which has staged .66 productions in the past nine years and her own career as dramatist, actress, I director, producer and stagehand. It all began in 1937 when she enrolled at University of in Berkeley and promptly joined the campus Little Theatre.

She learned phase of theatrical production from acting and directing to lighting and set building, and became a teaching assistant in the drama department when she graduated in 1941. "'But that was the year of December 7," she recalled. 'All the fellows I knew had gone in the service and I felt that I should do something." She served as a captain in the WAC and returned to ci Elizabeth Berryhill In a tragic moment of the play "The Long Christmas Dinner" by Festival Theater. Door, a smart club in Georgetown, and next week he opens in the flashy splen dor of the Washington Hilton. Petey Greene is a Negro i i i with the voice of a tobacco Vatican Has 'No Comment' On Holdings? auctioneer and a haunted look.

built-in telescoping dipole antenna, front-mounted controls and speaker, in a Further, she said, cartoonist Al Capp, who owned an interest in the Boston summer theater, told her: "Elizabeth, your show Is not loud enough, fast enough or vulgar enough for the He stands on a small stage space-saving simulated i walnut case that goes I anywhere in your home on i I. VATICAN CITY- (AP) with his hands folded and simply tells people what it is like to be a threat to society. professional world." He describes how he was She 8 aid she replied: lis own i us iu in mount cart, included in this low price! The Vatican declined to reveal its stockholdings in Ital ian companies and to public ly discuss why it pays no tax es on them. housebreaking one evening in a rich Georgetown street and "Thank you. And now I'll be pleased to go home where I can live and work eye-to-eye with my fellow human beings and give emphasis to artistry gently pushed open the back door to be confronted by a The chief of the Vacation press office apologetically member of one of Washing told a weekly news confer ton's best families, sitting up in bed with her curlers on rather than vulgarity." She was commissioned by the Pacific School of Religion ence that he has been authorized to reply with "no comment" to previously submit SONY TRANSISTOR "SOLAR" TV 125 and wordlessly looking at him down the sights of an in Berkeley to write a play ted questions on the Roman army rifle.

on the life of the theologian, IS 7-. I I A I i'. 1 Catholic Church's investment in Italian industries. Or the time he snatched a pocketbook from a WAC who knew karate. "She didn't call The Vatican's stock owner the police I did." ship is the focal point of i political controversy in Italy.

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The result "A Cup of Trembling" has since been produced more than 500 times in the United States and abroad. The play was the first production of the Festival Theatre, housed in a converted gymnasium at the San Francisco Presbyterian Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, in 1958. Since then the company has staged a string of hits including "A Man for All Seasons," "Waiting for Godot" and "All My Sons." Miss Berryhill acts, directs, and clad in her "uniform" of Chinese jacket and rolled up jeans moves furniture, checks props, tests sound equipment and the spotlight. She is "wonderful to work for," said Dale Mof-fitt, actor and general factotum of the company," adding: "She demands a great deal but she gives a great deal of herself in return. People join this company not because it is a theater but because it's Elizabeth's theater.

And if anybody has the right to be a prima donna it's Elizabeth, but she totally rejects the role." I T. i "i I After the war she organized a theatrical company in Berkeley, producing small shows, skits and sketches for clubs, schools and benefits, rand "hanging on by our fi nancial fingernails." But then the Straw Hat Re view was born in Lafayette and caught on. Miss Berry hill said: "on opening night in 1947 only 27 people were in the audience. But by midsummer we were playing mlMXWtrl ft MmA Trrjs'r izrr: W-'I'S'f zl-. fcii to packed houses and people stood in line for tickets." wonder latex Sir? WMl The troupe challenged the eastern circuit in the mer of 1953 and again ran 'HWIIWiW H'lil-UII II) Into the "rank-happy." BOMP WHITE" WW, I Conventions in S.

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