Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1946 — Page 26

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Times Critic Stays Dry- Eyed

At Emotional Stage Play

By HENRY BUTLER girl's plight “ " ity for all shy, unhappy people. The Glass Menagerie, which py daughter, & son and 8 restopened its three-day run at EDg-|jessly dominating mother in this lish’s last night, has a curiously|play are not so much individuals abstract quality. as symbols. And that effect is “Even the pathos seems remote heightened by the symbolism of and generalized, so that you are the little glass animals, the chief

moved less by a specific crippled recreative interest of the unfortunate daughter. ~

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With the unconventional device of a narrator (Richard Jones, also excellent in the role of the son), the play ‘moves through a series of episodes that are not so much scenes as poetic transcriptions of reality, What you see is not just one family, bute rather almost any family with the same kind of background and the same disadvantages of poverty in the hopeless depression days. Seems Little Misty |

Moments in the action are obscured by the brick-painted transparent curtain, simulating an outside wall of the family’s miserable

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the feeling that “The Glass Menagerie” is something I ought to like intensely. But in the climactic episodes, when the “gentleman | caller” (Edward Andrews, who put

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{on a vigorous performance) opens a momentary vista of happiness to |the daughter, I remained dry-eyed. The elusive quality. of the TenL nessee Williams play, heightened by the remarkably appropriate background music by Paul Bowles, | is its chief fascination.

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persistence with rare skill. The only trouble with Miss Lord in the (role is that she definitely hasn't a southern accent. Jeanne Shepherd, as the daughter, is admirably cast. She contrives to personify fragility, un- | happiness and frustration. And| her performance is sensitively keyed {to the pathos of the. play, which— | narrator, music, Stage technique {and novelistic, rather than dramatic, writing-—never packs a tragic | wallop.

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Alexander Carr Began Career in Music Hall

HOLLYWOOD, Sept+20 (U, P.) ~~ Funeral services ‘were- pending today for Alexander Carr, 68-year-old Russian-born actor whose portrayal of Mawruss Perlmutter in the "Po-

| —~Ann Sothern,

tash and Perlmutter” stage and screen series brought him fame. Mr. Carr, who made his first ap- | pearance on the stage of a St. Paul, i Minn, music hall, died yesterday | at Cedars’ of Lebanon hospital. { In 1904, he began his climb to success when his imitation of David warfield as “The Music Master” in the play, “Wine, Women and Song” was a sensation at Chicago's Circle theater. After appearing in a series of stage successes in this country and England, Mr. Carr took his first Perlmutter role on Broadway in 1913. With George Sidney as his partner, Mr, Carr toured the world in the “Potash and Perlmutter” act and in 1924 came to Hollywood where he played Perlmutter and other movie comic parts. His last picture was in 1840, Surviving are a daughter, Beverly, New York, and a sister, Sonia Ross, | Los Angeles. i

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EPISCOPALIANS URGE | WORLD GOVERNMENT

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20 (U. P.). A resolution calling for eventual | replacement of the United Nations) with a federal world government was adopted yesterday by the holse | of -bishops of the Protestant Epis copal church. The resolution, specifying that the | world government be elected by the | peoples of constituent nations, was approved at the church's §5th| triennial convention. It indorsed | accomplishments of the United Na- | tions, but held that a “much strong- | er instrument of world government” | | was Necessary.

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| plated. They were married three | radio show and were married Fri years 220. {21, 1940. © They separated last! ,—— 3 | May 17. Red Skelton $ Wife , The Carsons’ children are John, 9, and Germain Catherine, 18 months.

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