The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12

productions are due this month to ts current shows dropping out,
 Week end business is terrific in all of the entertainment spots, in- cluding night clubs, and even the weak sisters among the plays and musical shows make out O. K. be- cause of their Friday through Sunday receipts, largely due to catching the overflow from the hits.
 This Sunday business is Q grow ing phenomenon of show business here. Sunday performances were outlawed until three seasons back when the legislature fixed rp the legal difficulties and Actors Equity permitted it's members to work on that day wkith certain qualinca- tions. A few producers gingerly tried Sunday Showings some liking the experiment greatly and others deciding 1t wasn't for them. But tho Sunday performances have in- creased steadily and now II of the current attractions can be seen on that day, most of them giving both matinee and evening shows. In most cases this means the cancel ing of Showings on Monday nights and the midweek matineeS, since salaries for actors and stagehands take a steep climb for more than eight performances. Wartime con ditiDnS have helped greatly in mak- ing Sunday 8 good theater business day, what with service men and war workers, the latter with plenty Of money, bent on making the most of weekend entertainment,
 The March additions to the play bill look promising. First will come Harriet" with Helen Hayes DOT -.traying Harriet Beecher Stowe Of Uncle Toms Cabin" fame for Producer Gilbert Miller. Max Cor don will bring in Men Tn Shadow" g war play about Allied flyers forced down in Axis territory; George Ab- bolt will produce a comedy called "KiTs And Tell"; the talented and beautiful Elissa Landi will make one of her infrequent Broadway ap- pearances in Apology" for Lee Strasberg; Oscar Serlin will present "T'he Family" a dramatization of a prize winning novel about Rus sian emigres, and George Coulouris, one of our more versatile actors, will produce and play the title role in Shakespeare's Richard TIT. which has not been seen here since Walter Hampden revived 1t in 1884. DILLY BURKE, greatly loved ac- D tress who has been absent from Broadway for almost 10 years, has come back as the star of This Rock" by Walter Livingstone Faust, an executive of the Socony-Vac- uum Company, whose first produced play this is. The effort is not a hap py one, but it is hoped that the re- appearance of Miss Burke will in- spire someone to find a better com edy for her. .
 .'This Rock" is about the troubles of some of the British landed gentry when they take in flock of kids from the London slums because of the bombings. There is the usual romance. involving girl of the upper crust and belligerent Cock ney. and the whole thing is of an equally uninspired nature.
 THE highly successful Katharine
 4 Cornell revival of Chekov's "The Three Sisters will end it's run here on April and take immediately to the road. On that date 1t will have achiveed l22 performances here in IS weeks. the longest and most profitable run the 40-year- Rus sian play ever had anywhere.
 -7:e tour will open April with q two-week stand in Boston, followed by visits to Buffalo. Toronto. De- troit. Cleveland, Pittsburhg and Chicago before the star calls it quits for the summer. If it comes your way, don't miss 1t.