Evening star., 1949-04-10
ALI Across America
College Theaters Producing Pros
Destined to Work Off Broadway
By Joy Cormody

may true as the clche has it, that university drama
no substitute for the kind packaged Nevertheless
considerable number Washngtonan
dispute that point as of the last fortnight.
These are the who fortunate enough the
weeks run of Arms and Catholic University
and the shorter but exciting visit of Amherst Colleges
ducton OF Julius Caesar at the Folger Memorial theater
Each in its different way represented quail
y of which university heaer be And with which
discerning audiences extremely
productions eouts for performance profit
been the motive behind them would certainly have been
tended Since
box Office both up schedule
bers went back to their regular cassrooms
The Anglo-Roman costumes of the Amherst and the
Bulgarian uniforms OF Shaws performers Catholic u both
back in their protective mothbas Their erswhe
in their slacks and diff
ferent kind OF education in the undng qualities of the drama
Twice Handsomely Entertained
The immediate effect of having been witness these uni
versy offerings having twice handsomely enter
tanned There larger implicit the how
namely that here potential Broadwayss
tendency grow inward. continue while
hreaer completely fill Boadways place
Americas 100000 miles nevertheless will qualify
take place
All the from Amherst Leland Stanford uni
versy drama departments growing not merely quantity
enrolment. quality Every often the the
two plays under consideration they strike level that need
be envous Of Broadways standard This reflects wealth
OF talent all direction acting design 1t is
steadily wealth which will have to find place of
investment
especially this
riches of talent in the teater that Broadway will be first
choice this Broadway where fame lies and fortune
waits those whose themselves the theate
The inducements offers the most spectacular to be found
anywhere In America
LmIess Opportunity.
The unhappy truth remains however that it does not offer
present sharply could absorb
the migration of talented through todays college halls
cold the brightest Of these Of the stark
folklore of the teater All the evidence points
to getting evidence fewer and
eaters and these and exclusively DOM
elder statesmen and Of the profession
While Arthur Tennessee Williams manages to in
into the etup five the more sig
fact that such older fire Katharine
Cornell Helen Hayes Ethel Barrymore and others
not find work on Broadway.
therefore presents icy prospect for all these
college thespians save for a minute percentage
The Audience Is Waiting.
that these
will the theater far better quaed
it than who have become professionals
drawing from it, If they cannot practice their
profession Broadway they will have to practice elsewhere
geography and demonstrated public hunger Tor
living drama this "esewhere is thing OF enormous dimensions
matter of bringing together this new theaer
and his place public Amhersts JULIUS
that this place be colleges home town IN
four scheduled performances had to be
Washington c. Or it can be any equiv
United States where the commercial the
ater longer cares to call.
Universitys ability to M 600seat theater IA times
polished comedy not the result OF the National
With equvaleny exciting productions
precisely thing when the downtown mouse
in operation.
is an indication there large practice" awaiting
professionals whenever and wherever they
have the energy out and find it.