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3 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1935 Author and Actors Are Familiar: The Play Is New 'Paradise Lost Finds the Talents of the Group and Clifford Odets Again in Conjunction involved him in a violent stage fight'' IS Interesting to note nose. Like his colleague Mr. one of his principal and most sue cessful activities is raising money for worthy causes which have gained his interest and sympathy. He is said to be practically irresistible in the role of money-getter, and rich men droop with resignation as soon as he enters their offices. Morris Carnovsky had had years of playing with the Theater Guild before he joined the Group.

He was one of the very first recruits to the "idea" of the Group Theater, long before the inception of the actual organization. He is re 'where actors are born, not made, and where they go to werk in their very first years. At five she was playing in her distinguished father's company. She had successful years in the Yiddish Theater already behind her when she went on the English-speaking stage. Always an eager student of acting technique, she spent the season during which the Goup Theater produced "Men in White" in Russio, studying at the Moscow Art Theater with the great actor-director Stanislavsky.

Luther Adler spent the major part of last season in the role of Moe Axelrod, the wooden-legged racketeer of "Awake and Sing!" He used to catch people looking after him with pitying expressions as he walked down the street and realized that he had dropped into his stage limp from sheer force of habit. Adler played the leading male role in "Success Story" opposite his sister Stella, a performance which is tsill remembered. Aside from acting with Elia Kazan. Several days ago Coy cracked a rib during the proceedings, and has been going through the final dress rehearsals strapped and padded with all the protection that the combined medical and athletic professions can afford him. A trio of Group favorites of long standing will be seen in three of the major role in the Odets play: Stella Adler, Luther Adler and Morris Carnovsky.

Last season Stella Adler added another step to an acting career which dates back to her early childhood, when she appeared in a character role, that of Bessie Berger in "Awake and Sing!" She padded a willowy figure, whitened her blond hair, lined a youthful face with strokes of makeup, and surprised audiences who remembered her in the glamorous leading roles of "Success Story," "Night Over Taos" or "Gold Eagle Guy." Miss Adler comes of a family Bohnen, Meisner also fills in his time directing, having a regular engagement with the Neighborhood Playhouse to teach direction and stage their plays. Walter Coy, who plays another important role in "Paradise Lost," had one of the principal parts in the Group's production of Maxwell Anderson's "Night Over Taos." He also played the unforgettable ever-hungry interne Mac in "Men in White; last year, by way of contrast, he was a hounded young anti-Nazi, and something of a musician as well, in "Till the Day I Die." In "Paradise Lost" he plays a champion sprinter who holds the Olympic record for the 200-yard dash, a role which fits in well with his own earlier athletic career. At the University of Washington in his undergraduate days Coy played Varsity football, and generally made his mark as a man of brawn. He has needed all his muscle during the rehearsals of the Odets play, which membered, among a host of parts, by his performance of Uncle Bob Connelly in "The House of Connelly," the padre in "Night Over Taos," the pathetic Dr. Levine in "Men in White," and last season in two sharply contrasting roles: the banker Will Parrott in "Gold Eagle Guy" and Grandfather Jacob Berger, who cut hair, took the dog Tootsie on the roof, and played Caruso on his victrola, in "Awake and Sing!" as one Group Theater production follows another, more and more Group players are emerging as personalities whose reappearance is eagerly watched for by interested audiences.

When Clifford Odets "Paradise Lost" opens at the Longacre Theater tomorrow, it will be with a cast of Group players headed by Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Luther Adler, Roman Bohnen, Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner and Walter Coy. Last season saw three of these emerge for the first time by virtue of performances in relatively small roles: Kazan, Bohnen and Meisner. As the fiery taxicab strike leader in "Waiting for Lefty" last season, Elia Kazan scored a resounding success in his first speaking role for the Group. In "Paradise Lost," oddly enough, he plays another cab-driver. However, instead of appearing in a tattered shirt and an old cap decked with a rabbit's foot for good luck, his new role calls for a meticulously natty appearance, even to a stylish tie-pin.

In other words he plays a prosperous cabby, whose prosperity arises from supplementary activities more closely related to racketeering than to cab-driving. Kazan's connection with the Group antedates his debut as an actor by several years, for he was staije-manager for "Men in White," "Gold Eagle Guy" and "Awake and Sing!" He also dabbles in film acting, having appeared in one of the three roles in a two-reel movie filmed by Ralph Steiner. called "Pie in the Sky." Roman Bohnen came to the Group from the Goodman Repertory-Theater in Chicago, where he had spent five years playing a total of some thousand performances in fifty different roles. They ranged all the way from broad farce in Gogol's "Inspector General." and high comedy in "The Rivals," to melodrama in "Escape" Un which he played Leslie Howard's role) and romantic swash-buckling in "Romeo and Juliet" played the fiery Tybalt. At ane time or another he has played ALL the clowns in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." When Franchot Tone left his role In "Success Story" for a film engagement, Bohnen stepped into his shoes.

But it was not until last season that he really came into his own. as the distracted Nazi officer in "Till the Day I Die" who finally blew his brains out as the only way out of his troubles. He attracted widespread notice as the tragic Major Duhring despite the fact that hK scene took only 12 minutes of actual playing time! Book by HecM and Mac Arthur -Words and Music by Rodgers and Hart Book directed by George Abbott -CIRCUS Ballet by Allan K. roster Staged by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON Settings by Albert Johnson PERFORMANCES SUNDAY Family Matinee 3'3Q P. M.

Niqhf 8'3Q RM, "See JUMBO Be a Kid again" winchell, mirror FOR KIDS FROM SIX TO SIXTY ff ALFRED E. SMITH speaking: think JUMBO is grand. I ft as new and as funny to my grandchildren as it is to me, and that's a great test for any show MRS. GLORIA MORGAN VANDERBILT speaking: took little Gloria to tee JUMBO. Gloria thought it was simply swell." BURNS GRACIE speaking: I'm MORRIS GEST speaking: "There has never been anything to touch it.

There never will be It stands alone." Georgie and I are sending fifty kids next week to see JUMBO. We think its the best show in the world." "A Bargain, calls iM MANTLE, DAILY LVEWS IEEE Like a goodly number of Group members. Bohnen writes both plays and radio scripts; he has also a flair for direction 'he staged "The Tide Rises," a one-act play by Art Smith, also of the Group, which that organization put on at a Sunday night benefit last Spring and is a member of the Actors' Committee, which has a say in deciding Group policies. In the role of Sam Feinschreiber, 1703 GRAND STAND DAILY MATINEES MAIL ORDERS accompanied by remittance in full including taxi and self-addressed, stamped envelope will receive preferred locations. SEATS NOW SELLING FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE 4.40 Inc.Tax SIXTH the harassed young son-in-law of the Berger family in "Awake and Sing!" Sanford Meisner aroused much compassion last Winter.

His assignment in "Paradise Lost" will probably clinch his position as Public Martyr No. since he now portrays an Invalid son who has delusion about the stock market. During the run of "Awake and Sing he calculated that he spent well-nigh a hundred hours in all at his daily task of fashioning for himself a large and undeniably acqualine AVENUE.