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n.m u.iumw mi. iimi.m.Lini.iin uu i i nil hi mi i uin.n mmj i i 1 x-h BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, DEC. 13, 1942 7 PLAYTHINGS It Takes Years of Hard Work To Get to Be a Skippy Baxter He Borrowed Skates Learn and Began as State speed championship novice class. Figure skating then won-his interest and he spent many hours practicing leaps and turns. It was no ea.sy matter to switch.

On several occasions he wrenched his ankie and had to keep of! skates for long periods. Three years later, at the age of entered the California State figure The amazing feats of skill performed by professional' skaters in "Stars on Ice," hit musical ice show at the Center Theater, are done with such ease that few spectators in the audience appreciate the intensive training required to bring this show before them. i Years of diligent practice and years of world-wide ap-i It's the Serious Plays That Often Seem Most Trivial in Wartime By ARTHUR POLLOCK While the belief is general among play producers that in wartime the public wants only light, amusing plays that will induce those who ee them to forget the war, there are a good number who still have flth In serious plays. So, though the season has brought many trivial Menalnments, it has produced, too, its quota of weighty ones. Unfortunately too often the serious plays seem more trivial than the frivolous.

When a playwright sets out to be serious in wartime he must be careful to be serious about something worth more than a second thought. Otherwise his audience will consider him old-fashioned If not completely unconscious. For the war is the one thing above others, today that is vital. It handicaps the dramatist who wants his public to take everything else seriously. John Patrick's new play that arrived a few evenings ago, "The Willow and is decidedly on the somber side.

It has hardly a laugh in it. In it two sisters ruin each others lives. One wants to shoot herself on the other's wedding day. The other, on her wedding day, loses her mind. And for something like 40 years she does not get it back.

All that time the bad sister has taken care of her and had a bad conscience. And when the sister without a mind gets her mind pearances on skates have gone into almost every act that is seen dur- I ing one evening or matinee per- formance of "Stars on Ice." The audience watching skaters who hQl'B taLrOvi I Pw-; iui ivim and skill at Olympic and world championship meets. Take Skippy Baxter. When you see Lloyd 'Skippy) Baxter do his Uj0n and present president of the double-back loop jumps, you are International Figure Skating Oi-witncssing the greatest demon- Ranization which supervises' ama- vi juuipnia on one loot ever attained in skating. No more man three skaters have ever accomplished this double jump and it is agreed by the authorities of the sport that Skippy is the great back again in exactly the state it was all those years before, she learns that the other girl i.s a liar.

That is all pretty grave stuff. It is, in est. jumper in figure skating to He captured his first title at the date. Skippy gels his power irom I aee of 13. It was the California Mary Jane Walsh's Understudy Wishes Her Best of Health DON ARTHUR, Meryl Baxter and Neil Rose, left, the Rookies in "Stars on Ice" af the Center Theater, and, right, Skippy Baxter, figure skating star of the same long-run spec-tode.

The Center Theater, by the way, will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Dec. 29. fact, gloomy. Mr. Patrick counts on several big melodramatic moments to make it a striking drama.

One has the impression while watching it that the playwright knows nothing about the war. Otherwise, why should he expect us to worry about two silly, highly fictitious sisters. I don't mean that all dramatists who want their audiences to be Interested without, being made to roar with laughter or to giggle should write war plays. But if they want to fiddle while the fire is on, let them fiddic sood music. The drama called 'Only the Heart" that has been playing at the Provincetown playhouse, is also dwarfed by the events of the day in which it is born.

Horton Foote, its author, has much more sincere and sound intentions than the author of "The Willow and His purpose is to be stark and real and unwaveringly true. And he 1. But his play sounds trivial Just the same. His play is about a self-absorbed wife and mother who loves money and position and appearances so much that she ruins the lives of her husband and her sister and would do the same for her daughter if the daughter did not save herself in time. And.

again, who cares? Plays about greed have been written by the hundreds. And today, certainly, there is more greed left in the world than a million dramatists could do justice to, and Mr, Foote could write about it and bring himself abreast of the times. He has chosen, though, to write about the little greed of a little woman in a little Texas town. Perhaps he Is thinking in more contemporary terms and means his play to be symbolic. Don't believe it.

He is making a play to an old pattern, which is nothing for so young a man to be proud of. I am afraid he is one of the art-for-art's-sake boys. Some one of his elders in the American Actors Company should speak to him about it. otherwise he will be a dried up old man before he grows up. 1 After 10 Years on the Tonsils Return Him to Who has not turned on his radio at the even hour and; Radio Stage heard a pleasant voice ask.

"Say, have you got the time?" The pleasant voice is answered by a torrent of sing-song gibberish which, when interpreted, turns out to be the correct time, spoken in the manner of a tobacco auctioneer. Whereupon the pleasant voice says, "Thanks. Have you got a song to go with that?" The voice in question belongs to I episode with the query: What will Matt Crowley, who portrays the1 happen next?" husky farmer husband of Aline Nevertheless, it was not radio MacMahon in Maxwell Anderson's that first drew him to the amuse-war play, "The of St. Mark." at 1 ment world, but the theater. He the Cort Theater, and it is he who had a thorough training under brings down the curtain at every, George Piece Baker at Yale, and performance with the satisfying even authored a play there though admonition: his real interest was in acting.

Im- Stage Relief legular cast, will play an extra performance this evening at the Music Box for the benefit of the Stage Relief Fund. mediately upon graduation his seed in Order to Speed Skater having originally been a skater. Five years ago he won the speed skating title for the State jump is another difrirull feat wmch i lew sKaters can do well. This mo was named after its creator, Ulrich Salchow of Sweden, former ten times world's figure skating chain- trtir skating throughout the world Ten years ago Skinov Baxter learned to skate on a pair ol ice skates he didn't even own. Today he is one of the few skaters to hold both speed and figure titles.

had such a helping hand when won her first assignment in "I'd Rather Be It was only after he had haunted and Hurt for several weeks that they agreed to give her a spot in the chorus and a verse to sing. She was in the chorus for exactly four rehearsal weeks and an opciunc niuht in Boston. Since that evening she has been featured in "Sing Out tiie News," "Too Many Girls" before "Let's Face It" handed her its major siniina possibilities- and, ini ldentally, a new understudy. STACK PI. AYS -A'knistm.

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I 4 iVf, SCATftNOW FOR ASA A 8 "Make a better world, boys. God knows we need it Yet it is 10 years since the entertainment world last knew Mr. Crowley as anything more than a disembodied voice. For a decade he has been exclusively and full time, with no vacations a radio actor. Countless programs have em- fell upon good ground a smash hit remembered as "The Front Page." which employed him for 51 consecutive weeks.

In those depression years, how- ever, it was too much to expect such luck to be habitual. Thrice more he offered himself to Broad- skating competitions and or. me title in the novice class. He com-! peted again the following year, be-i came the junior figure skating champion, and also gained the pair i title. Encouraged by his success in the State trials.

Skippy went on to the Pacific Coa.st tournament. Here he proved just as successful, capturing the senior figure skating title. Skippv. who has been rh'led the fastest human on skates, was born in Canada but has lived in Oakland. most of his life.

He attended McClymond's High School in that city and represented the school on the track team. In a city-wide competition he was runner-up for the pole vaulting championship. Belasco Theater to House 'Doodle Dandy of U.S.A.' The Bela.sco Theater will house "Doodle Dandy of the U. S. only children's entertainment listed for Broadway during the Christmas holidays.

Junior Programs, in co-operatiton with Gilbert Joseph-son, will present ten performances of this musical fantasy beginning Dec. 26 and running through Jan. 2. Afternoon performances are scheduled for 2:30 o'clock and two morning showings on Dec. 2fi and 30 at 11.

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44th Mat Wt at Sfati on Salr thrnnih N(W VCARS I A THh'iTKF (ifUn mmm 1 llll II' HAKHVi Sl CO Ml- Without love KATHARINE HEPBURN ELLIOTT NUGENT ST JAMIS Theatre. I Ith St ol Ief til Matinee Thur A Sat SIA1S NOW IOR Mr III WIIK ployed him. from the March of way. twice in Ernest Trucx ve-Time. in which he played every hides.

"The Hook-Up" and What-conceivable type of character, to "ever Goes Up" both of which "Pretty Kitty Kelly." on which for promptly came down in crash land-three and a half years he was the I ings and in "Oh. Promise Me." in narrator who titillated the curiosity which he succeeded Lee Tracy, of the audience from episode to It was his attractive voiceand Clare Foley, Twinkle Watts, Frank Price-Big Name Kids! Mary Jane Walsh, feminine half of the doughboy-meets-girl motif in "Let's Face it." is entrusted with four major vocal assignments in tiie Vinton Frecdley musical at the Imperial Theater. They are "Jerry." "Ace In the Hole." "Everything I Love," which she sings with Danny Kaye. and a bit of Oriental jive, known as Rub Your Lamp." Just to be sure that these intrinsic tunes will never be absent from the evening's entertainment during blustering days when the proverbial fi'oa occupies the proverbial throat. Producer Frecdley provides Miss Walsh with an understudy.

Because "Let's Face If is only the fourth song and dance assimi-ment in which Mary Jane has lifted her voice, and the third removed from her own initial sortie as one of the girls in the chorus, she has a very special concern for her understudy. A warm, professional friendship has developed between her and Bcttv Kilpatrick. the which has already marie a marked difference In the latter's attitude toward her own career. When they were first introduced, Miss Kilpatrick exhibits all the fatalism common to those who merely stand and wait hoping eventually to serve. She didn't think much of her chances of getting an opportunity.

Now, she says: "I can imagine what all other understudies will think of me, but I hope nothing ever hr.ppens to Mary Jane." A routine has developed during "half hour" the 30-minute period immediately preceding the curtain's rise. A.s soon as the two girls check in and don makeup they cet together in Mary Jane's dressinc room for pointers and performance suggestions. Miss Kilpatrick also watches Walsh from the wines and checks upon the effectiveness of each night's stint. The system has evolved several valuable ideas for the singer. Miss Walsh wishes that she had Plays to Be Tried Out on the Radio A new link between radio and theater will be forged with the inauguration next Thursday of a new idea called audition previews." On that date.

Horn 3 to 4:30 p.m.. over the Blue Network, a new play will be presented in its regular three-act form as a tryout. Emanating locally from station WJZ. the play. "The Wind Is Rising." by Harry Kleiner, will be presented with a cast including Claire Luce.

Selena Royle. Ethel Owen. Stephen Schnabel. Frank Lovejoy. Allan Bunce.

Santos Ortega. Boris I Marshalov, Helen Coule. Maurice Tarplin. John Brown and others from Broadway. Eddie Dowling will serve as host and narrator.

Evolved by Fritz Blocki. who will produce and direct the Thursday afternoon performance, the idea of I trying out by radio of new plays is not intended to eliminate out- of-town tryouts. but to give playwrights, producers and backers an advance approximation of the potentialities of a play. Benefit for Rolice Athletic League Under the su)rrviMnn of a committee of theatrical producers, agents and directors, one of the iiinft theatrical event of the sea-I will take place at Madison Square Garden Tuesriaj when stars of staite. screen, radio and the op- eratlc world appear in a three-and- a-half-honr continuous entertainment.

a benetit for the Police Athletic Iaiiiie Bert Lytell. Marvin Schenck. Li-e Shubert and Ed Sullivan head the entertainment committee in charne of production. HOCKEY Madison Square Garden SEN ADM 50 BES TONIGHT 1:30 RANGERS CANADIENS Love," the hit comedy by Hepburn is starring at the the risky impermanence of the average Broadway play in this pe-! riod which diverted him to radio And there he might have remained comfortably into middle age, as one of tiie mast souiiht-after actors of the air waves, except for a happy acvk.cnt that sent him to a New- Haven hospital for a tonsillectomy. Clearly, lonsiis are ot value to a radio actor, and their removal forced Matt to cancel broadcasting ensasements for srvrral weeks.

Thanks to this, he was free of all obligations when Director Leni Ward, instigated by his friend Adelaide Klein of the of "Uncle Harry." piioned him lon distance to ask if he would read for the part of Deckinan West in "The Eve of St. Mark." For the only time in his life. Matt Crowley's voice failed to sound either pleasant or peiuaMve or ingratiating. Hardly able to croak tiie words, he said: "Thanks. I'd be glad to.

Only give me a week to set my voice back." Mr. Ward cave and Mr. Crowley got the week and the job. In a condensed version of Madam Butterfly. Clare's father.

Paul. Is a. well-known actor, director and stage manager, serving Mr. Pemberton in the last rapacity. Her mother.

Betty Amfard. has had important loles in a gnat many shows. Clare I was born May 2. 1 934 in Galcsburg. 111., while Paul headed the drama department of Knox Colleiie.

Six I weeks later her mother was back jon the static Clare's initial edura-I tion was gained at Packard's Collegiate Institute, but now she at-j tends Professional Children's School. She never took a dramatic lesson in her life. Youne Miss Wal's Ls as amazing as Miss Foley in a completely dlf-: ferent way. For Twinkle is the youngster who amazed all sports authorities by bowling 254 last year I and by her skating. Her parents are not particularly athletic.

Neither has ever worked in the theater. And yet this self-possessed young lady is a natural athlete. Her education has proceeded along normal channels, though now she has private tutors. She rehearses constantly but calls it play, reads a little and wants to be another Sonja Henie. Young Price was attending a church social in Norfolk, when Short dropped in to see a friend.

Frankie sang one song and Hazard Short brought him i back to Ncv York (or the Todci show. Older than the girls, Frankie lives ith some relatives in Brook lyn, attends school regularly. He comes into the theater about an hour before he goes on to sing his one song, and after finishing his "Star and Garter" chores, gets dressed and leaves for home. Tli us this season's children's side of Broadway's fairyland. Mark their names down well in your memory Clare Foley of "Janle," Twinkle Watts of "Stars on Ice" and Frankie Price of "Star and Garter." or some dav foon these names will mean a great deal.

Bt T. S. WAR BONDS AND HAVINGS STAMPi I I I 'Star and Garter' Tonight for Michael Todd's "Star and Garter," with Bobby Clark. Gypsy Rose Leo, Professor Lambert! and the 1 1 AUDREY CHRISTIE in "Without Philip Barry in which Katharine St. James Theater.

1-. Bruno Wick, 50 Years Old, 50 Years an Actor Bruno Wick, who is fifty and plays the gentle, trusted man servant in "Claudia" at the Forrest Theater, recently celebrated his fiftieth anniversary on the stage. To the sharp-eyed reader who Is about to sneer "How's that again?" let It be stated that on Dec. 15. 1892, Wick, then a bawling babe of six months, was carried, cradled on a shield, out onto the stage of the Municipal Theater at Krefeld.

Germany, in a production of "Corlo-lanus." His father was the manager and his mother the leading woman. Although he did not waste any time starting on a theatrical career, young Bruno almost ruined his first entrance by gurgling. Every time he opened his mouth to cry a well-prepared extra would pop a chocolate down his mouth. This accounts for Wick's having had his first case of indigestion from his first stage appearance. Even on this occasion, Wicks could have boasted, if he had been articulate, that he nad "always been in the theater." He was born in a dressing room of the same playhouse the previous May.

His mother being the leading lady and his father the manager. It could be charged that at an early age he had "family Influence." In any case It was not difficult for him to keep getting roles all through his childhood. When he was 16 Bruno and his family came to this country and he made his American debut In a stock performance of "Old Heidelberg" in Buffalo, with his father again acting as director and manager. This was the same part that young Wick piayed once before as a student in Dusseldorf. He has been a consistently busy actor on the American stage ever since.

Oddly enough, he has spent a good many years playing Japs In "The Spider" and other shows, going from one stork company to another. They wrapped me up with Broadway dimmed out or not is still a fairyland. For here, and here alone, are success stories written in the stars and carried out with enough razzle-dazzle to make Lewis Carroll, Hans Andersen and Grimm look like pikers, i Each year sees sudden new Broadwav successes. In the last few seasons Danny Kaye. Keenan Wynn, Gwen Anderson.

Dorothy MacGuire, Patricia Peardon. Ronald Graham and others popped Into prominence. But this season offers an amazing thing. Three youngsters, children, who are headed for really big thinits The youngsters are all kids who have not been brought up in theatrical trunks. Two are 8-year-olds 1 a Foley, who plays tiie brat sister in Brock Penibertons comedy hit.

"Janle," and Twinkle Watts, who shows amazing skill in "Stars on Ice," the Center Theater's spectacle. The third child. Frankie Price, 14. sings "The Girls on the Police Gazette" in Michael Todd's "Star and Garter." Though Clare Foley has been around the theater all of her life, unlike most tots who start a theatrical career in their infancy, she's never been carried on stage. She made her debut on her own two feet, at the.

Radio City Music Hall a script and sent me all over the country." he savs. His slightly Oriental physiognomy kept him working in Aslastlc roles In East Is West" and other dramas of that type. Now. in John Golden' production of "Claudia," he is back In a role a little closer to his own real type-that of an Americanized German. T.tUs in a satisfaction to him not only as a rest from Oriental types but a.s a means of permitting him to celebrate his anniversary as a Golden" anniversary In a double sense of the term.

The theatrical tradition his family seems likely to come to an end with him. Neither his son, ho was recently Inducted In the air corps, nor his daughter has any interest In acting. IS f- If I XT'. A CANADA LEE and Evelyn Ellis in "Native Son," at the Majestic Theater. This is the ploy made by Paul Green end Richard Wright from Mr.

Wright's novel of the some name ond originally presented by Orson Welles,.