Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1940 — Page 13
y MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1940 .. Eddie Dowling Is Here g In ‘Time of Your Life’
: : By JAMES THRASHER It’s the critics and scholars who apply such terms as artistic and sig-
nificant and literate to the theater.
these adjectives have a way of being very practical persons who have spent much more of their life backstage than in the library. Take, for instance, Eddie Dowling. He is producer and co-star of William Saroyan’s “The 'Time of Your Life,” which opens at English’s
tonight. And, to anticipate a question, he's the same jiddie Dowling whom older theater-goers saw, in such things as the “Follies,” “The
. Fall Guy,” “Sally, Irene and Mary”
and “Honeymoon Lane.” ol
Mr. Dowling’s career is hardly what you'd expect from a song-and-dance ‘man -who left school when he was 12 in favor of show business. He has written, produced or acted in (and sometimes | all three) revues, movies and broadcasts. And four years ago his entry into a new and richer activity has resulted in some of the most distinguished stage productions of recent seasons. Presented Maurice Evans
He began in 1936-37 by prese¢nting as co-producer an English actor unknown to most of America in one of Shakespeare’s forgotten plays — Maurice Evans in “King Richard II.” He produced a piece by a humble, unheard-of Irish schoolmaster which turned out to be one of the great plays of our time—Paul Vincent Carroll's “Shadow and Substance.” He was producer of Mr. Carroll's next play, “The White Steed,” and he produced and acted in Philip Barry’s serious and sym-
- bolical “Here Come the Clowns.”
Now it’s the Pulitzer Prize play of that erratic genius, Mr. Sarayan, which is claiming his attention.| He has shared the production with the Theater Guild, and is sharing the Shige acting burden with Julia Hayon. All this is out of the book, not out of a conversation with Mr. Dowling at the Spink-Arms last night. Still Enthusiastic
It is impossible to talk long with Mr. Dowling without realizing that more than 30 years on the stage haven't dulled his enthusiasm for the calling. Mr. Dowling has| had his troubles; not only his own but others’ as well — temperamental actors, temperamental critics, temperamental playwrights (even William Shakespeare, in shortened and unabridged forms). But nothing has happened tp his zest for play-acting. Right now he’s decidedly sold on Mr. Saroyan’s “peautiful talent” for the theater. And I don’t think it’s betraying any confidence to say that it takes a
But the people who summon forth
real enthusiasm to maintain this admiration after intimate association with the youthful, self-styled genius who wrote “The Time of Your Life.” Mr. Saroyan’s ebullient self-es-teem is one of his chief stocks in trade. He makes no bones. about it, although Mr. Dowling thinks
it’s. perfectly natural, and not a|
publicity-seeking gesture. But Mr., Dowling stood in the presence of the New York drama critics and heard Mr. Saroyan berate them via radio from’ California- just after they had awarded him and his play their prize for the year.: He also was present when the playwright turned down a proffered eight or nine pages in the country’s biggest-selling picture magazine. Its publisher, beguiled by “The Time of Your Life,” had wanted to do something for its author. Mr. Saroyan countered with the proposal of selling the publisher his life story for the modest sum of $50,000. O’Casey Play Next Such incidents, however, don’t affect Mr. Dowling’s steadfast opinion that William Saroyan’s playwriting gift is a rare and wonderful thing.
There was much other talk be-|.
sides that connected with the play that brings him here. The , conversation finally got around to his next production, which will not be another work of an obscure genius. Rather it will be Sean O’Casey’s “Purple Dust.” It’s fine O’Casey, says Mr. Dowling, whose admiration of ©O’Casey’s matchless use of the English language is shared by most of the theatrical world and its satellites. Mr. O’Casey, an Irishman living in London, has written his new play about two Englishmen living in Ireland. And the fact that Mr. O’Casey is still in London is not to Mr. Dowling’s liking. . Only recently Mr. O’Casey chose at random one hospital in a unit of three in which to recover #rom the flu. The other two hospitals were bombed to the ground.” But to one of Mr. Dowling’s many insistent cablegrams asking him to leave such danger and come to New York, the Irish playwright sent this terse reply: “Less courageous.”
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WHEN DOES IT START? CIRCLE i “Tin Pan Alley,” with Alice Faye, . Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, at 12:39. ‘3.55, Sidney Toler, Matjorie Weaver. at 2:50 Sia "and 0:02. > CIVIC “See My Lawyer,” a comedy by Richard Maibaum and Harry Clork, presented by a Civic Theater cast under Richard Hoover's direction. Engagement through Wednesday; . curtain at 8:30. INDIANA “The Letter,” with Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, at 12:39. 3:53, 7:07 and 10:11, “Nobody’s Sweetheart Now,’ with Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, at 11:36, 2:50, 6:04 and 9:08, ‘ LOEW'S
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Boston violinist. Charles is a manly looking youngster who plays the violin in a manly sort of way. He chose to do the Mendelssohn Concerto, and he brought to the thricefamiliar work an admirable poise and technical assurance, and a tone that was pure and sonorous, if not exceptionally warm. ; A debut performance is a hazardous thing at best. And the young player was presented with the additional hazard of an instru-
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