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and 6. There is little chance that y
situations as those of, say, The M
OF "Coriolanus" will be the fifth time
American theater and the first time
dress.
That modern dress angle Is the
result of parallels close enough to
be called startling. between the po-
litical implications and events in
Mr.. Shakespeare EliZabethan play
and these. our troublous times. Such
familiar things as class war, inter-
national hatreds and political
rivalry are part of this account of a
man who loved the people too little
and people who were themselves
unstable.
In the Catholic University pro-
duction, which has been in rehearsal
for some three weeks, under the
direction of Walter F. Kerr. there
will be many things Shakespeare
never would have expected to find
in his "Coriolanus," unless he had
been the Jules Verne of his day.
The worldly politician, Menenius.
will wear top hat and tails and will
know the tinkle of ice in shaker,
the aristocratic Coriolanus will dis
tinguish himself on the battlefield
with automatic rather than sword
and international communication
will be by telephone rather than
travel. But with all of this the
adaptation being used was made
without rewriting line Of dialogue
or violating the meaning and chro-
nology of the play. so we'll does it
adapt itself to modern conditions.
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With the Adjacent Straw-Hats:
Melodrama fans can rest assured.
It's to be roarin', rip-SnOrtin',
blood -and- thunder drama of the old
West that opens the Roadside The
aters season Monday, June II. The
title of it is The Pioneers Daugh-
ter or "Perils of the Prairie" and it
deals, according to the Roadsiders,
with those days of the West when
men were either men or skunks-
nothing half way!" Seven produc-
tions, each running two weeks, will
comprise the Roadside Theaters
schedule, as in the past five sum-
mers.
To Howard Wentworth, who this
summer will divide with C. Adolph
Glassgold the directing chores at the
Cross Roads Theater, has fallen the
lot of preparing the opening pro-
duction. 1t will be Anne Nichols
"Abie's Irish Rose" that great ar
tistic flop which broke every box
office record that preceded it in the
theater. Major Cross Roads worry
is whether they'll have a chance to
put on second play; they remem-
ber how THE Old Soak" just went
on and on last year and threatened
to keep the playhouse open all win
ter. At any rate tryouts will be held
at the barn it's at Baileys Cross
Roads, Va from Monday, May /,
through Friday, May S.
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The week:
Tonight and tomorrow night. The
Stella Maris Club of St. Gabriel's
Church presents "The Ghost Flies
South" at 8:15 o'clock in the church
hall, Webster street and Illinois
avenue NV. The play, new COM
edy by Frederick Jackson, who wrote
"The Bishop Misbehaves," is con-
cerned with lass who has been
reared in the belief that gambling
is a vice, who decides to play the
market anyway and is considerably
successful at it. The cast includes
Frances Hospital, Paula Heath. Rol-
ma McCaddon, j. Paul Ward, jr.;;
Margaret N. Smith, Henry Hughes,
]. Harry Lewis, Edna Mae Brown,
Ruth Nordstrom, Thomas Mccarthy
and Catherine Ryan. Arthur Rhodes
is directing.
Tomorrow and Wednesday. On
the Arts Clubs literary nights the
Dramatic Committee will stage a
new one-act play by Pearl Etz. The
title is christmas Present" and the
cast includes Dorothy Winchcole,
Elizabeth Clark, Walter Studdiford
and William JARVIS.
Thursday night. The Security
Club of the American Security &
Trust Co. presents its 18th annual
show, Jay Tobias farce, Here Comes
Charlie" at Roosevelt High School
auditorium. Paul Messink is direct
ing and the players are Virginia
Lang, Karl F. Heinzman, Mary E.
Carr, w. Raymond Wannall, jr.;
Archie l.. Fisher, Catherine Shehan,
John F.. Donovan, Virginia NJ. Wat
son, Madeline Wright and Joseph A.
Haltigan.
Friday and Saturday. The Lynch
burg College Players stage Rachel
Crothers' psychological drama Of
married life, "He and She," at the
College Theater at BIS o'clock. OF
particular interest locally is the fact
that one Of the people responsible
for the production is Virginia Reese