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TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 1987

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on MONDAY, AUG. 80, 1987 o'Theater Council's Plans

Called Laudable Effort To Aid Legitimate Stage

Group Seeks to Restore Drama to Place in Sun by Aiding Young Actors and Encouraging Audiences; Urges Festival.

By JAMES THRASHER

As representatives of “the road,” which has had a major part in

assisting the drama out of its dilemma, Indianapolis play-goers should | This group is making | a belated but laudable effort to restore the stage to its place in the sun. | actors and |

be interested in the American Theater Council. The American Theater Council, composed of producers, representatives of organized stage ©

SR is an outgrowth of the | 4.0 Tne apprentice theater also rst National Convention of the | | 8 oe Legitimate Theater. Meeting in New Would Dresom, SAC pe] plays York early this summer the con- Giscovered by the Dramatists Guild vention took stock "Suggestions jy JES WOrh Yih pew NOES. CAL SBSERIIS | The Dramatists Guild likewise has came not only from metropolitan | .pay0e of the five $1000 fellowships delegates, but from theater man- | wpich John Golden donated last agers and play reviewers of “road” vear Eight or 10 similar donations cities, .. ._ ._|are expected from other sources. Now the Theater Council, in its | The awards will be made by a comfirst meeting a few days ago, adopt- | jhittee made up of Frank Crownined a three-point program. First, | chjeld, Burns Mantle, Sidney Howit is going to do something about | 5rq, George S. Kaufman and Mr. suburban audiences in the larger | Colden. cities; second, it is to take steps to Parenthetically, it might be hoped | give deserving young actors and | that the Council's efforts with young | playwrights a better break; and | actors would include a continuation third, it plans a Drama Festival |of “apprentice” performances such for next season. | as were undertaken last year. [ Many of the minor characters in [long running hits studied and rehearsed other plays in their spare time. Some were presented for the stars and principal players late in | the season.

Action Long Delayed

In connection with the first point, one wonders why it has been so slow in coming. For years our theatrical bigwigs saw the motion pic- ; . tures stealing their audiences from | Experience Denied under their noses without doing! JI,ong runs are both a blessing and much about it. |a curse. While they provide a seaContempt for the son's work, they prevent the “walktry turned to alarm, but no action | O1

’ players from gaining experience resulted. Although they couldn't |

and versatility. Last year's “noble hope to reach the movies’ vast audi- | experiment” should be encouraged ences, legitimate theater leaders |&nd systematized. might have succeeded in making| Plans for the Drama Festival are their product more inviting, accessi- tentative. It is hoped, however, that ble and comfortable. Ra may be given early next Season, The first step along this line | Perhaps in August. CE be (aside from the last two season's | [DC American Theater Council. air-conditioning for summer runs) | While these oars ew to i is pointed ut ‘the commuter. Several | centered in New York, it is obvious plans were suggested at the recent | that anything done there in time S Aa [will affect the whole play-going pubmeeting. One was for an early yj, Queerly enough, while New curtain, probably at 7:30 o'clock, | york was enjoying an indifferent one night each week. This would |ceason last year, touring companies give the suburbanite time for a |qjq their best business since the deleisurely dinner before the theater, | and let him get home at a reason-

pression. able hour.

infant indus- |

Prospects are even brighter for | the coming autumn and winter. So [the more initiative displayed at the | source of things, the sooner we shall see the country's theaters attain something of their uii~ime glory.

Thriller Now An ‘Educational’

Transportation Urged

Other suggestions along this line were for ticket agencies in suburban | centers, special parking spaces for theater-goers’ cars, the organization of theater-going groups, and arrangements for excursion trains. For the aspiring young actors and writers, an apprentice theater is be- | ing considered. Informal Sunday | night performances probably would |

be given, with managers in atten- | HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—-|

Mary Pickford's early day “New York Hat,” once a thriller, is | classed today as an “educational” | picture. Along with D. W. Griffith's “Intol- | ‘erance” and “The Great Train Rob- | bery,” remembered now by only ma- | ture film fans, the old movie will be | shown at the University of Califor | nia at Los Angeles. Stars in the ancient melodrama | include Theda Bara, Mack Sennett, Emil Jannings, Sarah Bernhardt and Wiliam S. Hart.

BOYER GETS HELP

For the first time in his screen career, Charles Bover is a butler in the screen version of “Tovarich.” To | learn to buttle correctly, he hired a | tutor from a Hollywood school for household nelp.

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“Souls at Sea,” with Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee, at 12:40. 3:53. 7:06 and 10:19 “Blond Trouble,’ with Whitney, Johnny Downs Overman, at 11:32 2:45, 9.

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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's new first clarinetist, Julio Mazzocca (above), formerly held the same position with the Boston People’s Orchestra when it was conducted by Fabian Sevitzky, present conductor of the Indianapolis orchestra. Mr. Mazzocea's study has been with Bellini at the Naples Royal

| Conservatory; Magrani of the Cos-

tanza Opera in Rome; Langenus of the New York Philharmonic-Sym-phony, and Gardner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His other experience has included engagements with the Society Symphony Orchestra in New York, and with the San Carlo Opera

| orchestra,

James Hosmer (above), the new first flutist, is an American-trained | player. In his high school days he | played with the National High | School Orchestra in Chicago and | at the National Orchestra Camp in Interlochen, Mich. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hosmer studied with W. M. Kincaid of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in 1934 won | a three year fellowship at the | Jullard Graduate School where he | was a pupil of George Barrere. Before going to Jullard Mr. Hosmer organized and conducted the Music League Little Symphony in Johnstown, Pa., his home, and also | was assistant conductor of the city’s symphony orchestra. |,

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War Policy

| FIVE ‘DEAD END-ERS' AT LOEW'S

In News Reel

WPA March on Capital Also Featured; Air Stunt Shown.

The Chinese Central Gov- |

ernment’s position in its undeclared war with Japan is

ambassador to the United States, is

spokesman for his Government in |

this timely recorded in Washington.

Another

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present WPA employees to Capitol to urge passage of a relief bill guaranteeing work for all.

The Van Nuys, Cal, airport is the scene of man’s latest attempt to conquer the air. The newsreel shows a pudgy Van Nuys butcher's helper who hoped to reach the

release | shows the parade of 3000 past and | the |

Sidney and four of the remarkable boy melodrama of New York's tenement district, which

Sylvia “Dead End,” Sidney Kingsley's realistic | is now at Loew's,

actors in

stratosphere by means of wings and |

rockets on his bicycle. in the mud instead.

IN NEW VORK—syums: ROSS ||

Alfred "Viiheotk, Full of

EW YORK, Aug. 30.—Of the notable eccentrics, the brilliant film director of London, probably harbors the largest number of twists and quirks and engaging peccadillos. In stature and girth, he is the living duplicate of that amiable,

And like that portly sleuth, Hitchcock | them.

fictional detective, Nero Wolfe.

imbibes his beer in giant portions.

British Film Dirsion

vows Rolfe,

He landed

barrel-organophile, |

{ during the past five years, and even |

”

Foibles. |

Alfred Hitchcock, |

He is the scourge of waiters at |

(of the hurdy-gurdy

| names [rots and can carry | one-way

after the Mayor purged them from the city's streets.

Rolfe knows most men by name | {and one of his intimate friends is | Tomasi Esposito, who plays a fine, |

hand engraved machine in front of |

the White House in Washington. Moreover, he also knows of their

the

on a limited, conversation with one of

monkeys and par-

He first became interested |

his midnight habitat, where he defaces tablecloths by drawing pencil | in hurdy-gurdy men when he helped | pictures across them. Especially since he has a penchant for Writing [one rescue his monkey from being | manhandled by a rough and tum-

with indelibles.

Other Hitchcock foibles were re-®

vealed to the writer on his recent junket to London. The directorial eccentric lives on the sixth floor of a walkup flat, because the exercise acquired by two ascents and descents daily keeps his weight down to exactly 265 pounds. For that reason, he shuns lifts as if they were the mechanical devils themselves. In London he is known as an outstanding gourmet and is at

| home on the range, for he is a sup-

erlative cook. He considers American cooking stoves the greatest in the world, by the way, and deplores

British stoves as being instrumen- | | tally cruel to good food.

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HEN tea is served on the set, as is wont to be the habit on soil, Hitchcock always breaks the crockery after the last sip, for he claims that it relieves the strain. Between scenes, he retires to a

He incidentally, mere wood Despite agile

e is a veritable Paderewski. sits on steel chiars, for he will not trust | against his avoirdupois.

| his immense size, he is

enough and not averse to climbing to |

the pinnacle of a setting for birdseye view of the scene. As a practical joker, he has no peer in that part of the kingdom. During the making of “Secret Agent,” he Sent a horse to Peter

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S BORN” Fredric March-—Janet oayn PLES 45 Minutes of Laughter with EYE «——1Tn “Sindbad the Sailor”

shooting | private | room and plays the piano at which | h

Lorre's dressing room with a card | of introduction. As revenge, wore 8 ordered 12 canaries that couldn't | sing and instructed that one be | delivered to Hitchcock's apartment | each morning. He is married to al scenarist who often does continuity for him, but he only takes orders | from his daughter, aged 6. He B) an insatiable hobbyist and a fickle one. At the moment, London | friends write, he is collecting Hyde | Park tramps. » w Ww A. ROLFE comes forward to | say that he's been collecting | hurdy-gurdy men. He has heen,

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