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8 TREND: A SECTION OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLE SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1939 Twenty-five Years Ago A Drama Department Was Founded at the Carnegie Institute of Technology Wtih Its Production of Two Gentlemen From Verona' presented in celebration of the drama department's 20th anniversary. When Carnegie Tech organized and opened Its drama department in 1914 it rendered a pioneering service in this country by recognizing the theater as an art which demanded of its practitioners the Candid Close-Ups Nos. 34 and 35 Muriel Kirkland of 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois' and Morris Carnovsky, Pillar of the Group Theater Br ROBERT FRANCIS Circumstances wouldn't let her go to Bryn Mawr, so she went to dramati: school instead. She was fired at the end of the first year or rather they didn't aik her to come back. Tlytt settled it for Muriel Kirkland.

She's little and slight, but oh, my! She set out to show 'emj and she did. Now the school proudly displays her name on their honor rol'. although she's never had time fo back to see it. stant and most ardent listeners was her start in her teens with! a young actor named Morris Car-Stuart Walker company in Cincin- jnovsky. What Clurman had to say about the theater and its future was nati, and then came back to New! definitely what Carnovsky had been York to join the agency parade of looklIlg for and practical appU.

struggling young actresses. Was cation began over seven years ago luckier or more determined than when he took a leading role in the most and managed engagements in organization's first Independent pro-three or four plays. Big chance duction, "The House of Connelly." came a year or two later when she since that beginning he has de-was picked out or 49 applicants for serted it only twice and neither time the lead in "Strictly Dishonorable." through fault of his own. In 1933 Woke up the morning alter opening there was no role for him and he re-night to find herself firmly estab- turned to the Theater Guild ban-lished on Broadway. Has been sojner in "Both Your Houses" and ever since and except for a couple later after "Johnny Johnson" when Abovt ana) kttow Oritjinol drawings for rwo scans in "Family Portrait," ploying at tha Morocco Thaatar.

Right Halan To maris in Federal Theater project's "Adelante" at Daly's Thaatar. Dance theme it by Mits Tamoris. the Group temporarily drifted 1 la Living Statistics Where Do George Abbott's Actors Come From and Why Do They Get jobs With Him, Young and Old? a dramatic school. If you don't go to California or N. Y.

TJ, the matter of your college can be determined Understudy Ezra Stone Ready If One of Dromios Gets Sick Ezra Stone, who has spent the entire past year playing Henry Aldrich In the George Abbott produc tion of "What a Life," Is also the understudy for Jimmy Savo and Teddy Hart, the dromios in Mr. Abbott's production of "The Boys From Syracuse." During rehearsals of 'The Boys From Syracuse" Mr. Stone was in constant attendance. On opening night he stayed backstage until the curtain went up and then rushed over to the Mansfield for his own performance in "What a Life." That night he was back at the Alvln in time for the final curtain. He has attended all understudy rehearsals of "The Boys From Syracuse" and could give a letter perfect performance any night.

The reason Mr. Stone has been drafted for this extracurricular duty by the Abbott office is because he Is the only actor they know in town who could be come the twin of either Mr. Savo or Mi. Hart. And so Mr.

Stone's understudy Jn "What a Life," who is also ready to play Henry Aldrich any night, has the extra added ex citement in his life not only will he get a chance to play Henry Al drich if Mr. Stone is not well, which has never happened, but he will also have a chance to do Just that if either Mr. Savo or Mr. Hart is not well And that has never happened. either.

Tills is the second time Mr. Stone has served as Mr. Savo's understudy, for he served in that capac ity in the Theater Guild musical "Parade." And this is the third time this same Mr. Stone has served as Mr. Hart's understudy, for he did so ir.

the Abbott productions, "Three Men on a Horse" and "Room Twenty-five years ago today the first results of a unique experiment in college education were unfolded before a Pittsburgh audience when the newly founded department of drama of the Carnegie Institute of Technology gave its Initial produc-tioa The date being Shakespeare's birthday, the play was appropriately Two Gentlemen of Verona," and the new theater of the College of Fine Arts was filled with a skeptical crowd of townsfolk and faculty. This week, by way of celebration, the department is giving "Julius Caesar," which incidentally is the 27th play of Shakespeare to be given by Carnegie students. In the intervening years the department has gone steadily on its way, training groups of men and women in the arts of the theater and fitting them for careers as actors for the stage and screen, teachers, directors, playwrights, technicians and for radio. Over this quarter of a century more than 300 plays have been given in the Tech Theater, repre senting the works of dramatists of India, ancient Greece and most of the countries of Europe, as well as our own literature. These plays have had an average run of eight performances, and those patient non-holders of tickets who have waited in line on play nights hoping to get in can testify that there is seldom an empty seat among the 400 in the theater.

In this list of productions, which Incidentally does not take into account the numerous plays given in the studio theater of the department, are several first performances, and certain authors have assisted in productions, nota bly John Galsworthy in connection with "The Silver Box" and Padrlac Colum with Abbey Theater plays. Dominating the repertory is the long list of plays by Shakespeare, a production record that has been equaled but rarely, probably only by "Old Vic" of London. Since the opening play, each year near the time of Shakespeare's birthday a work of the Bard has been given. Most of these plays have been staged by B. Iden Payne, who was called from Carnegie several years ago to become director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon.

Mr. Payne devised for use in the Tech Theater a modified Elizabethan stage which contributed much to the popularity of the Shakespearean productions, and the effectiveness of which was enhanced by the costumes the department was fortunate in acquiring from the Elizabethan Stage Society. A high point was achieved by Mr. Payne in 1934 when he directed both parts pf "Henry IV" which were PRICES OFFICE FOR NEXT II WEEKS All THE TIME." Mo.ea-.e. J.

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nvpwiti. of years after she went out to the Coast to star in "Sailor Beware" and was tempted by Hollywood, every season has found her on the Broadway scene. This year she's Mary Todd Lincoln up at the Plymouth. Plays her from romantic girlhood to tragic and bitter middle age. Thinks "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is an opportunity to refute preconceived notions of Lincoln's wife and show that she was actually not so bad.

Has a deep sympathy for the character and feels that in spite of Mary's ambition and occasional shrewishness there must have been a great and abiding love between them. Anyway, that's the way she plays her, and the fact that there are continuous standees at the Plymouth must prove something or other. In private life she's Mrs. Staats Cotsworth. They've been married three years.

This Spring will bring their first separation and she dreads it. They always do everything together. He goes to Ann Arbor for Bummer stock. They live quietly up on E. 55th St.

Time is divided between theater and radio work. Get to most of the art exltbits (Staats was an artist before he turned actor), and avoid night clubs except to go dancing occasionally. Both love to ride, but find it too expensive in the East. She is shy of big parties and prefers to have three or four intimate friends in a couple of nights a week after the theater. Staats cooks his celebrated curried shrimps and they talk stop and play bridge.

Weekends rhey spend with Muriel's mother in New Rochelle. Says it's a very normal, quiet existence. Has no plans beyond "Abe Lincoln." She likes to do comedy (loved her part in "The Greeks Had a Word For and wouldn't want to get "typed" for character parts. Eeems little to worry about. If she decides to play comedy, she probably will.

The dramatic school found out some years ago that Murirl Kirkland usually geu what she goes after. When Harold Clurman began a series of lectures in Steinway Hall which led to the establishment of the Group Theater, one of his con- 1 i LEGITIMATE THEATERS MANHATTAN Cheryl's Chekhov Miss Crawford to Produce Three Sisters' and 'Cherry Orchard' Cheryl Crawford, with her pro duction of "Family Portrait" star ring Judith Anderson, successfully established at the Morosco Theater, is now laying plans for next season and her schedule will not only Include new plays by new authors but also two of the most famous plays by Anton Chekhov? These are "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters," in new adaptations. The production dates of these are dependent on the life of "Family Portrait," as Miss Crawford plans to have Judith Anderson star in "The Cherry Orchard" and Margaret Webster in "Three "Sisters." The latter will be staged by Lee Strasberg. Both plays have been included In the repertory of the Civic Repertory Company. "Three Sisters" was first done in New York by Eva Le Gal-lienne in 1926.

"The Cherry Orchard" has been done by several producers. Originally it was produced by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest as one of the Russian plays in the Moscow Art Theater program in 1923, and five years later James B. Fagan presented his British company in a translation by George Calderon. In 1928 Miss Le Gallienne added the Constance Garnett translation to her repertory and revived it again in 1929 and in 1933.

"Three Sisters," as presented by John Gielgud, recently was an outstanding production in London. 'Nine Pine Street' At Roslyn Theater "Nine Pine Street," the John Col-ton-Carlton Miles drama, founded on the famous Lizzie Borden, Fall River murder case, opened successfully Thursday evening at the The ater of the Four Seasons, Roslyn, Long Island. It is a Federal Theater for New York State production, was directed by Dann Malloy and has a cast which includes Virgilia Chew, Gene Webber, Eve Bailey, Irene Taylor, Frank Daly, Maurine Hol-bert, Walter Jones, Rose Morison, Mae Kelly, Adele Albert, Frances Victory, Harry Hanlon, Allen Dailey, Gordon Burby, Florence Carrette and Charles Berre. "Nine Pine Street" will continue to be the attraction at Roslyn on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the next several weeks. was in this act that she established herself as a favorite at the Victoria, and in this act she toured Europe for 15 months, America for nearly a year.

This completed, she returned to Europe to study in Paris for two years with Szbrilia. In 1908 Miss Mitchell returned to New York to win the applause of Caruso, Tettrazinl and other Metro politan stalwarts for her rendition of "Red, Red Rose" in "Bandanna Lamr at the old Majestic Theater, She was then selected by the firm of Cole and Johnson the late Bob Cole and the J. Rosamond Johnson who plays the minister in "Mamba's Daughters" to sing "Cupid Was an Indian Pickaninny" and "The Pathway of Love" in "The Red Moon." It was her first starring role and it won her a long vaudeville engagement under the aegis of William Morris which continued until 1912, when throat trouble forced her to retire as a singer. In 1914 she returned to the theater as the leading lady of one of the most extraordinary Negro companies ever banded together, the Lafayette Stock Company at the Lafayette Theater, Harlem. She 'stayed there for five years, playing everything from "Are You a Mason?" to "Madame singing everything from the title roles of "Carmen" and "Camille" to Mar-guerita in "Faust." Since that time she has appeared in plays that have succeeded and plays that have failed, in concert and radio; she has studied with some of the world's greatest voice i teachers and taught many who have achieved some measure of success.

but it is as the leadiiif lady of the jold Lafayette that she will always i be cherished in the memory of i theatergoers of every hut, apart, he landed in Hollywood to play Anatole France "Zola'' and the bank director in "Tovarich." But when word was out that Odets had a new play, he was back in the front rank of the faithful, ready to assume the heart-warming role of the Italian father of "Golden Boy," and this year he scored again with the perplexed dentist in "Rocket to the Moon." Currently, he is retouching his old portrait of the gentle grandfather in their revival of "Awake and Sing." All in all, he has been in 12 of their 17 pro ductions. He personifies their srMrit and says he cannot conceive a career in the theater outside the Group. All of which makes Mr. Carnovsky sound like a very serious young man. He is as far as the theater and acting is concerned.

He will sit up all night with you to explain the "Stanislavsky approach," the aims of the Group, and his views on Shakespeare. (He thinks the theater should be ready for the future and that the new drama will be poetic in form.) Life in the theater to him is a period of training with nothing more dangerous to the actor than too much success. However, there's nothing "arty" or pedantic about him. He's warm, friendly and with a fine iiense of the ridiculous. If he ever happened to teach drama in college he'd be giving his lectures in sections.

His courses would be mobbed. His chief obsession outside the theater is one you'd least suspect. He collects records swing, corny, opera and symphony dressing room at the Windsor is loaded with them and a portable phonograph. More of them down at his studio apartment on University Place. Hates to go to bed and is apt as not to hop in a car with Clifford Odets at four in the morning to ride to Peekskill just to look at the Hudson.

If he has a desire for anything outside the theater it's to travel. But that's not a very serious one. Going away with the Group in the Summers to rehearse is a good sub stitute. He is doing exactly what he wants to do most the way he wants to do it. Has a ouaintlv exnressed that a gQOd flCtor fe a g0Qd person." Morris Carnovsky lives up to it.

'Casino roof in "Clorindy;" or, "The; Origin of the Cake Walk." under the tutelage of Win Marion Cook, a noted Negro comtxxser. whom she ra'cs with Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Harry Burleigh as musical pio- neers whose efforts paved the way for the Andersons, Bledsoes and Robesons of today, Cook shortly thereafter wrote a show called "In Dahomey" for the once popular team of Williams and Walker and asked her to sing what became the hit number of the en- tertainment, "She Ain't No Violet." After a five months' engagement in New York the troupe went to Lon- d0n, whore "In Dahomey" scored the first hit of any colored play of llS '-pp' King Edward liked "She Ain't No Violet" so much that after hearing it at the theater he arranged a per formance at Buckingham Palace and sent a carriage for Miss Mitchell. Nearly 20 years later she was to sing for another English monarch, King George, at a concert at Queen's Hall. On her return to America Miss Mitchell was starred in a vaudeville act entitled "Abbie Mitchell and Her Memphis Students," which boasted an orchestra of 26 different lnstru- mcnts practically every instrument now In use except tha xylophoni. It i NO INCREASE IN SEATS NOW ON S4t AT SOX CVENINCt 1 10 2 2 2 30 Hlllwr.

Mail 0" OlStN HE LIZ A rOfPIN' GETS IIGGER UflUTTD flDnCU 8 'wot 50th 10 la S2.20. STAGE ROSLYN, I I. Thcatrt af raur SaaianinACf ff ff rm.ni Emj and Sit. Nirht at "Nine Pine Street" bT John Colton and Onrlton MUm from orlttnai p(ay by Wm. MUea and Donald Bladcwoll.

staged by Dann Molloy Print: 1 10. He. BSo, ISo I i-vuri So you're determined to go on the stage? Well, first of all, you should arrange to be born in New York. That's important but not absolutely necessary, since being born south of the Mason-Dixon Line is almost as good. It is essential, however, that you go to high school and graduate with tnarks well above the average.

You can overlook college and dramatic school altogether, but if your thirst for knowledge is insatiable, try the Pierian Springs of the University of California, New York University, or the American Academy of Dramatic Art. With such preparation superimposed, of course, upon native talent you'll have the average actor's equipment. And, although youU doubt this, it won't be very difficult for you to land your first Job. Such are the facts revealed in a recent study of the 92 actors now employed by George Abbott, Broadway's most prolific Impresario end producer of "The Primrose Path," saga of uneasy virtue at the Cort Theater; "The Boys from Syracuse," tuneful Rodgers and Hart musical at the AMn, and "What a Life," youthful comedy now in its second year at the Mansfield Theater. Unless It's true what they say about statistics, the results of this survey should be of great value to actors particularly those yet unborn, since place of birth now looms as an important factor in dramatic success.

The statistics indicate that 33 percent of Mr. Abbott's actors are native New Yorkers, 18 percent are Southerners, 11 percent come from Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, while 9 percent, oddly enough, are foreign born. Release of such figures is virtually certain to cause a sharp convergence of prospective mothers upon these points. Let them be warned, however, to stay away from Jersey, which trails along with only 1.08 percent representation on the Abbott force. Once actress in "What a Life" was born in Jersey but she moved to Connecticut at an early age.

Although Jimmy Savo and Teddy Hart of "The Boys from Syracuse" and Helen Westley of "The Prim rose Path" were born in New York City, outlanders need not feel that their thesplanistlc stars are ill fated. Witness the case of Eddie Albert, a native of Rock Island, HI, who was spurred on to fame by his Uncle Bert's election to the presidency of the local Y. M. C. A.

Bible Class, and that of Wynn Murray, discovered by a church-going talent scout who heard her sing "Yield Not to Temptation" in a choir at Carbon- dale, Pa. Both are prominently featured in "The Boys from Syr cuse." And did not Ezra Stone, far famed as Henry Aldrich of "What a Life" and the air lanes, first see the light of day in New Bedford, It's been a great year for the provinces. The Souths high batting average is due chiefly to a heavy prepon derance of native daughters in the chorus of "The Boys from This might bear out Kentucky's mous boast concerning its women except that not one of the girls hap pens to be from Kentucky, Most of them claim Virginia, Texas, or Georgia, and at one time Mr. Abbott considered billing them as "A Bevy of Dixie Honeys," but he was overruled by the minority who strenuously objected to paying allegiance to the Confederate flag. Eighty-five of the 92 actors are high school graduates, but only 22 of them went to college even for year, and only 12 have ever attended by a tossup, since no other Institution lias more than one representa tive in the Abbott group.

The Amer ican Academy is alma mater to most of those who have reached top ranks through dramatic school. The most amazing revelation of the survey is that a professionally inexperienced actor has a better chance of securing a part on Broadway than one who has been In one, two, or even three plays, although the bulk of Important roles still go to actors of long experience and established reputation. While Mr. Abbott is a champion of youth in the theater, he points out that imposing assignments usually must be handled by veterans with eight or more Broadway shows under their histrionic belts. In every Abbott production, how ever, there are usually small ones which are delegated to actors with' out much experience, and producers seem to prefer whole cloth to that which has been partially cut.

In the Abbott shows, for Instance, the beginners outnumber those who have been in two plays by six to one, and those who have been In three plays by four to one. In other words, your first acting job will be easier to secure than your second, third, or fourth. You don't want to overlook, however, the fact that spear-carrying is not very lucrative. Perhaps your advance preparation for the stage should in clude a neat bank robbery or some thing else which will provide you with enough money to live on for the first 15 years in New York. By the end of that time you'll be either well established or ready to go back to robbing banks.

The wisdom of giving promising but untried youngsters a break on Broadway has been effectively denv onstrated within the Abbott organ! zatlon. Among those who have been boosted to national prominence without benefit of previous experience are Eddie Albert, who played the lead In Hollywood's production of "Brother Rat" after appearing in two Abbott plays on Broadway; Ezra Stone, whose radio portrayal of Henry Aldrich has won him the dis tinction of replacing Jack Benny for 15 weeks during the Summer, and Betty Field, who, after appearing In six successive Abbott plays, is now in Hollywood playing the lead in the film version of "What a Life" and who will return to Broadway next season in Mr. Abbott's new comedy, Carriage Trade." All of these players worked their way into the front ranks through long and arduous service, but occa sionally there is an overnight suc cess story such as that of Miss Gene Tierney. Although she had never set foot on any stage before even as an amateur she blossomed forth In one of the leading roles of a re cent Abbott play. Her debut caused such a flurry of excitement that she was soon whisked off to Hollywood, but not before she had promised to re-enroll next Fall under the Abbott banner In the mentioned "Carriage Trade." Strange as Miss Tierney's phenomenal success may seem, oh servers will note that she was born in New York, graduated from high school but not from college, and that she had no difficulty in land ing her first role.

Can it be that her mother, Mrs. Howard Tierney, anticipated the results of the Abbott survey some 19 years ago, before Gene was bom? It Was Abbie Mitchell! Who Sang Summertime'? Who Played Mammy? Who Was the Aunt in 'In Abraham's Bosom'? Who Headlined at Hammerstein's? Who sang that lovely, haunting, Baltimore, and her first professional Gershwin "Summertime" in "Porgy appearance was made.shorUy after and Who played the mammy turn'of the century on the LEGITIMATE THEATERS MANHATTAN RAYMOND MASSEY i KATHARINE CORNELL ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS the playwrights compant "wa ta.r.m,, that it wm tsb vrestnt tha beat evening you hay had In a E- SHERWOOD Mfi T1MT? mo rnUITlV lon time." Damon Bunton Pt.TMOHTH W. 4 St. dr. pi 1 1 E.

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$1.16 la $2.73 M.u.w.ri.t t.t'tfli 1 in the original production of "Co The ham's Bosom," Pulitzer Prue aunt in "In that Paul winner ol a Abra-Grccn dozen years a so? Who was one of the first members of her race to be a Taudeville a 1 i throughout Europe and the British Isles? Who was the leading lady at Harlem's famed Lafayette Stock Company? Who wa.i a headliner at Hammer- stein's Victoria Theater for three consecutive Summers? And who has appeared in three command performances, two before Edward VII and one before George Thc answer to all these questions may br stated in two words: Abbie Mitchell, currently appearing ai Addie in the Lillian Hellman drama The Little Foxes." Miss Mitchell occupies a unique position in the roster of America's sepia performers. Even Ethel Waters, who has achieved stardom this season by virtue of her performance In "Mamba's Daughters," readily concedes that Miss Mitchell is the Bernhardt, no less, oi ner race. Miss Mitchell is a native New Yorker, having been born down on E. 3d St. between 3d and 4th Aves.

Her first musical education was gained in St. Elizabeth's Convent In, I.