The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
LitchfieId Comed y Tops; IA In Cast
By JOSEPH c. GILLIAN


 mer Theatre this season have been many, acting through the weeks has been a continuity of pleasure and the directing, for the most part, has been tops. Room Service" by John Murry and Allen Boretz, dished up last night on platter of genuine laughs, was the top hit of the sea- sons successes.
 There wasn't "a" star-the cast Of 14 was all-star material, though some Of the stars shone brighter than others. The directing of Leonard Altobell, who also held down an assignment in this happy farce, was right up there with the winners.
 Room Service" already a by gone Broadway veteran of joyful success and a two time Hollywood winner needed no extra pushes to bring laughs-the script was loaded with them, and overloaded with them. Nor did it require smut to garner the steady flow of chuckles, guffaws and roars Of approval that a well pleased audience afforded it almost without interruption.
 Two And A Half Hours
 It was just one Of those plays that, if you miss it you'll deprive yourself of tWo and a half hours Of happy theatre going.
 Somewhere amid the laughlines there was a plot. It had to do with company of deadbeat actors who take Over the White Way Hotel to the tune of S1 1.200 in back rent. They-Altobeil. John Martin, Max Leavitt and Sylvia Stone-also take over the meek and beWildered hotel manager. Gene Lyons; and Lyons is taken over by,the hotel inspector, Vern Armstrong.
 About to be eYicted from the room where tftr majority Of the show people have housed themselves, they fortunately come into possession of the author of the play they are re- hearsing. The author, Lawrence Slade, is made ot crawl into bed covered with powder and iodine in an attempt to convince the hotel officials he is sick with measles
 The idea is to slave off the in- evitable eviction until the play is presented The plan works well un- til the authors sickness is discover ed to be a fake More complications set in and the acting company is about to skip out second time when they encounter a packer in the person of Jim Robinson. Robin IT oI, a little rough treatment and all is well again until he stops payment on it.
 Continuity
 This goes on through the three acts until the final curtain when, of course, all and sundry leave the stage the best of pals and hearty fellows well met and all that sort of thing.
 Here and there the steady flow of laughs is interrupted by few minutes of even heartier laughs that left one woman two rows in back of me within a few inches of rolling OH the floor. Martins appearance from the bathroom clad in pair O4 gay COIOItU SllOlSO, oldUe 1dhCQ attempt at suicide, and a Russian walters reading of lines from the company's play provided the best laughs
 In the cast and doing well are George Beshara, the wild eyed and dramatic Russian waiter; Blonde and beautiful Rose Sinclair, hotel secretary and love interest of author Shade; Lou Martin as Timothy Hogarth, agent for the We Never Sleep Collection Agency which tries to get back typewriter that some how or other has been paWned by the starving acting group; John Hewitt, the hotels Dr. Glass; Saul Zweig, a bank messenger who informs the hotel manager the S15,000 check has bounced, and Julius G. Guinchi, Senator Blake, owner of the White Way Hotel.
 The Litchf1eld Theatres press de- partment informs me that Separate Rooms" presented two weeks ago. was the biggest boX-office attrac- tion there this season, with the larg est audiences