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I In 'Present Laughter1 Helen Hays' Daughter Finds Career Tough Going Evans Ending Hit Tour BY CLAIRE COX NEW YORK (U.R) Sometimes "I hope he's a doctor or goes to West Point or does something nice like that," she said. 'The theater is really a woman's world, although I think that if I had a chance I'd get married waiting for Mother to leave th and have 15 children. theater, and it's awfully lonely. "It's awfully hard on a man "Oh, well, I guess it will be being married to an actress. My quite a while before I have to father sits around all evening worry about that." at a couple of parts there when Mother isn't looking.

"When Mother Is in a play with me, she criUcizes my work as much as she does any other young actress," Miss MacArthur Mary MacArthur wishes she were just plain Mary Jones from Kansas, instead of the "act of BY 3IARK BARRON God baby" of Actress Helen NEW YORK OP) Maurice Annie, Gets a Swim Hayes. Evans, after a long and success ful tour across country, returned to Broadway last Week to play Mary, you see, like a lot of other bobby soxers with upsweep hairdos, the "new look" and gold cigaret lighters, wants to be the tne iinai performances of his re vival of Bernard Shaw's "Man and his Superman" and with the satisfac tion of having: accomplished sev greatest actress in the world eral things he had set out to do. but she is convinced that she'll never make the grade. The reason First, when he originally opened is mama. ana at the Hud rnt.

i guil neater on Jtsroaaway on The tall, quiet 19-year-old girl feels that anything she ever does March 8, 1948, he did it with two definite goals in mind, both now on a stage will be just an anti accomplished. said. "When she's not in a play with me, shes pretty harsh. Pop never says anything. He just beams." MARY WAS pretty much awed by her mother, when, at the age of 16, she finally got up the courage to tell her she wanted to be an actress.

"I told her shyly," she said. "She was very sweet and said Why don't we do a play She is such a wonderful actress I was embarrassed. "Now I know- she's had her weak moments on the stage, just like anyone else. One she got the giggles and buried her head on my shoulder. Another time she missed her cue because she was buried in a book in her dressing room." MARY'S ADOPTED brother, Jaimie, 9, who likes lollypops as climax to her mother's brilliant achievements, but she'd like to ill I r.

His principal interest was to re try hard anyway. vive interest in Shaw's comedy aDout a cxever but frustrated She's afraid also that people matrimonial iconoclast, a most will think her own achievements humorous play making fun of marriage conventions as practiced will come thanks to her glam orous mother. in iuo. MARY'S PROBLEM was cre irr 1 fix ri 1 EVAAS HAD believed that ated when she was born to Miss 5 -I I Man and Superman" had been neglected on the American stage Hayes and Playwright Charles MacArthur. Her mother had to I as it naa naa only two previous productions on Broadway, those in cancel a stage appearance.

1905 and 1912 when the leading well as the next kid, is going to appear with the' mother-daughter team at Olney this summer, but She pleaded that the child was "an act of God" so she wouldn't be accused of breaking her contract. The appeal was spurned, how Mary hopes he won't become an actor. ever, and Marys arrival was greeted with the glares of the actors who had been thrown out Return Booked for 'Henry of jobs. roie or Jonn Tanner had been played by the English actor, Robert Loraine. It was while Evans and Loraine were playing together in London in a play called "The Man I Killed" that Loraine recited his adventures with "Man and Superman" in New York and whetted Evans' desire to bring the play to American audiences again.

Another reason Evans wanted to do the Shaw play was that he sought to break down the idea in the minds of Broadway audiences that he was strictly a Shakespearean actor. I lnr.nmiwnn mini in i minim iii.Miwwi-rivg Laurence Olivier's Technicolor production of "Henry will be presented for a week's engage PUFFING ON a cigaret in the upper East Side apartment her parents gave her for Christmas, Miss MacArthur said that she had benefited so far by her mother's ment beginning Sunday at the Metropolitan Theater in Highland Katherine Meskill plays opposite Edward Everett Horton as his actress-wife in the Noel Coward comedy, "Present Laughter," opening Monday evening at the Cass Theater. Park. help, but that after she starts, Acting Mayor Richard Nehaba dian has designatea ims as "Henry Week in Highland ON STAGE DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, May 22 Section f) Park. she'll have to be on her own.

"Because of Mother, I can get into producers' offices," she said. "I'm not ashamed of it. It's so hard to get into the theater, why not take advantage of it?" So far, Miss MacArthur has -l i .1 1 i-irrirr- ninfr-- Art uttiif -Hnimmirr to 'v 4th Production to Close Season Berlin Musical, Coward Play Open "Take My Advice," a three-act comedy, fourth production by the appeared in one play with her mother and one with Lilfian Gish. Little Theater, of the International Institute, will be IF HE does gross the expected S60.000 for his final two weeks, Evans' production of the Shaw comedy will approach a record set by another hit revival which preceded his production into the City Center. This was the two-week engagement of Judith Anderson's tragic and superb revival of "Medea," which grossed $73,000 for its 16 performances.

In returning from his long tour into the hinterlands with the Shaw comedy, Evans said that he had one strong recommendation to Shubert Lafayette Theater they'll all be back in their Wild West costumes. Standing from the left are Jack Rutherford, Buster Rose and John Hurdle. The girls, from the left, are Sue Randall, Marilyn Marsh and Elaine Lane with Miss Worth. When "Annie Get Your Gun" played Houston, earlier this month, Star Billie Worth (seated, right) and some members of the cast took to the water in the new Shamrock Hotel's swimming pool. When the Berlin musical feturns Monday evening, to the staged at the Institute Sunday evening, June 5, to conclude the She admitted the notices weren't very good, but she's going to play another daughter to her mother in a new play at a summer stock theater at Olney, this year.

organization's season. John F. Carrico is directing the Comedy and music will take the stage in Detroit this week. Noel Coward's comedy, "Present Laughter," will give Edward Everett Horton a whirl at the star play, assisted by Mrs. Elizabeth C.

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Hartman Lichtwardt, world Another actress in the "Present Laughter" company, Marta Linden, has the role she created in the Broadway production starring Clifton Webb. Much-Traveled THOUGH HE has stuck to the theater, Donald Burr, the Charlie Davenport of "Annie Get Your Gun," has crossed most of the seven seas. This Buckeye Boy had his first New York job in the Theatre Guild's "Garrick Gaieties" of cherished memorj'. In 1934 he shoved off for Lon traveler, will speak at the annual role played by Coward in London and Clifton Webb in New York with the Monday evening opening at the Cass Theater for the week. That sharp-shooting musical, "Annie Get Your Gun," returns to the Shubert Lafayette Theater Monday evening for a week with Billie Worth and Taggart Casey at the head of the big cast.

make. He found, he said, that in the larger cities such as Chicago, St. Louis and similar communities that a large portion of potential playgoers lived at distances of an hour or more outside the theatrical belts. luncheon of Allied Youth Monday Latin America Is Forum Topic Six members of the Latin-; American Bar Association will discuss "Latin America, Area of Common Concern" at a forum Fri- day evening at the Wayne Uni-! versity Student Center. i Miss Louise Grace, newly-elec-! ted member of the Board of Edu- cation, will preside.

The discussion is sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association of Detroit. at Women's City' Club. Dr. Lichwardt's topic will be Youth in a Complex World." IN SEVERAL places he tried out a 6:30 p. m.

curtain instead of the ca o-J In Ann Arbor Tuesday evening LEROY COLLINS as "Martin Eden" GREATEST NEGRO PHOTOPLAY OF ALL TIME! Running Time 3 Hrs. and 10 Minutes Novelist in Store fmm Lydia Mendelssohn Theater don and a succession of three win nouse me liiii aim uui musicals. After that he went Rosamond Marshall will auto Drama Season production, "Night graph copies of her latest novel, Celeste, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Monday in the Book Store at J. L.

Air Conditioned 6 beginning Tomorrow Eve. Rs WM. welcomed by people who wanted to go direct from work to dinner and then to the theater. He strongly recommended that touring stars plan such early curtains for at least part of their engagements in each of the larger cities in which they play in the future. Rialto addenda: Broadway crit Hudson Co.

Must Fall," Emlyn Williams melodrama starring Lucile Watson in the role created by the late Dame May Whitty in London. Donald Buka is featured. Satire to Straight PLAYS BY Noel Coward have contributed to the career of Kath "down under" to play five shows in two Australian seasons. Back in the United States Burr has been Feste in "Twelfth Night" with Helen Hayes and Capt. Absolute in "The Rivals" with Mary Boland, Bobby Clark and Walter Hampden.

He has also sung consistently in summer operas. His wife is Billie Worth, who has the current musical's title The Hilarious International Farce That Rocked Broadway, London Paris orrangtmwm with JOHN WIISON. MARTIN MANUUS ft EDWIN KNIU prejeiw EDWARD EVERETT HORTON EXCLUSIVE! FOR CHILDREN ONLY ics, it should be explained, may be I erine Meskill. cast as the wife of seen these nights chanting maa E(jwar(j Everett Horton in "Pres A GIGANTIC KIDDIES PARADISE Ton will be amazed at soliloquies to tnemseives ana what you see see role. Their home is a farm in PRICES" PRICES NOEL COWARD'S NEW COMEDY HIT sfyse6'''! 1 Iff ti COo ALL RIDES Long Valley, N.

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i ir if PjJ Sf -j Ifimrmnrr in i iff Sri mf -i "IT i fi 'r' I counting their fingers to see if five equals five. The reasons are several: The critical verdict on "The Madwoman of Chaillot" was overwhelmingly thumbs down, but the play is doing most zest-ful and profitable business. The critical verdict on "The Traitor" was unanimously that of fl thousand cheers, but the drama is attracting very slim gross ent Laughter." A Ziegfeid Follies sketch satirizing a Coward play saw Miss Meskill as a Gertrude Lawrence type playing opposite Milton Berle as Coward. Time marched on, and here is Miss Meskill playing a straight role in a Coward comedy of the stage. Miss Meskill is also remembered from the cast of "The State of the Union." with Open Daily P.

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The 90-voice choral group will be directed by George McLeod, of 1 the faculty of the Detroit Institute of Musical Art. A featured choral number will be Beethoven's Halle lujah Chorus. ther soloists will be Simon Clements and Jennette Grockau. Hubicki will play a number of 1-4 with BILLIE WORTH viola solos. Tax Orch.

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