Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-01
Extinction on E Street
Everybody Loses in National Theater
Controversy-As 1t Had to Be
by Joy Cormody

BY Joy Cormody
lights athe National Theater last night
Washington capital Of the western world
which living drama is longer represented
street institution with lib OF continuity to Its credit
has been dark before cosnss
u When this ends several weeks hence
the National will be picture True. could be
converted overnight function but that
such demonstrations In this sphere OF
activity unlike sports they seldom come back It more
profitable to back become movie
radio presentation theater or In the immediate future
Sometimes as -paata Rato here
famous Hppodrome in New York theaters end up ~
In way living bent upon hurl-
itself headons into the machine which has become Its relentless
pursuer.
Controversy Moves On
closed the National and having done 70 has moved
on higher far logical Oddly
the de of the theater the md them
agreement one point namely that the Casualty "s
prodtess.
battles fought under circumstances where the ground
IS inadequate for the dueliss to maneuver
had chance to operate in the solution
controversy the theater misfortune to De
the Nation
an area for such conflict Yet
stand for 10000 pooling booths to substitute Tor two n
important Washington structures as the Capitol suos
and the Supreme This asking absrd
not be recommended as an approach
problem Certainly not one as snarp ana oeep anu
civil and rights
From the perspective the aisle of the two
show has looked at times like an nsaney
~ Even the Play Proposed Compromise
It began example, with called Joan OF Lorraine
had magical actress in the person
that human progress is neVl-
ably Yes COMPROMISED That is what the
play argued that believed in compromise
not Bergman Anderson who wrote the drama
poets like write major out OF the degrading antics
poets those who do not believe themselves
The other sde management equally uncon-
Anderson eoquence the great virtue OF
compromise.
who labor the heae notorl-
OF most cele-
mutual denuncaton OF all the arts
another the spells until tater
prices ntolerabe the suffering public mas re-
Boadways hits negligible two at the moment
wondering how long it-and they-can continue
Boycott the Fatal Weapon.
forge the latest
most suicidal This the boycott
First was Dramats Guild who threatened to
eater Then Actors Equity and later the
press agents
boycott right back and now between
them they have boycoed the theater out of existence
when the whole question OF abandoning
subjected to either sane DELHI
Grafton negotiation Both sides stood eli ana hred
ultimate impossible for the theaters management to
retreat with dignity traditional policy Of nonadmisson to
induced The Negroes right to
attend whites well simply became lost IN
OF play
wrigh boycott the heaes right to turn itself
a notion picture house.
conflict with legitimate theaer left in WASH
neton The argument its dead body there
MARTYR involved principals but the public the
public which might have met in understanding and
1t did perhaps made symbol of some
thing than itself
a symbol it is exinc-which in itself may be
symbol of today and its conflicts.