Evening star., 1949-08-21
Busiest Star Today
Also One of Brightest
Vicki Cummings to Do Fifth Play
Of Summer at Olney This Week
By Joy Cormody


Cummings agen-which she has not and
does needhe fellow would have no trouble at all proving
dynamic actress in the summer hea
perhaps the theater Of the three other seasons as WELL
The blond baritone some of her most ardent admirers can
these latter to get themselves vehicle and
ride fast and far possible before the first chill nights OF
autumn drive art and artists indoors
Cummings for change. Counting last week at
Meridian Park in Noel Cowards De
sign Living four plays since Adding
VI sit ~, mH o ~ % 1 % h summers @ score will be five With
couple between, she has put tax her
(of nes that amounts to downright confscation
Just Likes Variety.
Miss Cummings lively sounds in all this leapng
from play play looks the stage has
of distinction a result OF all this.
II just like variety" she says
Any followed sings of theater at
mngs that she is almost Impossible to keep track Of
II find it that way, too" she agrees.
Resident actors such those at Meridian Park or
olney may play productions Miss Cum
mngs The point tat they play character not star roles IN
quantity less and its quality less poshed
difference possiblyhe director waiting
in the wings?
This Is a Lucky Date.
Playing Meridian Park and oney makes
Cummings having lucky Once Design for v-
ing at the first eater she could start dropping out 70
Maryland house for reheafsals For Love Money
typical of her life and far worse than
right now. .. ,
Cummings last Saturday night about II
o'clock wound week Of Separate Rooms at Lake Hopat
cong About 1890 after eating bite and packing my
ready start for apartment in New York
had at Hopatcong so there was at home couple OF
hours later.
unpack trunk of the wardrobe for Sep
could bed naturally until this was done Other
would too sleepy to pack when got up Sunday
morning to catch o'clock plane for Washington.
course the plane and by rehearsng
Washington really is quite change
anything Noel Coward but especially from Separate
Rooms which you of the smartest
plays written.
Design she nice play to change to for
several
Coward a Pet Playwright.
of them that I've done before many times and
love it, Cowards plays only because he
dialogue Another like this
especially playing in stock house record for
the thater anything which she
sets let them tell different
added that actress probably would try
tell this correspondent otherwise.
through plays scattered theaters
plus experience had Broadway has given
Miss Cummings great many ideas.
which feels the intense is that the
needs and original thinking. Specifically she
suggests thinking the English playwright Christopher
current London "The Lady Not
for witty, fantastic triumph found its
graceful hands long before became Gielgud
triumph in England.
May Restraints.
She admits she has been roong about 1t since and that
Gielgud plans bring 1885,
entertaining thousands of people which she
best thing the hear does Miss Cummings hopes
that will producers that there al
Turing profit in unusual plays.
will continue until right
botherng her She thinks will keep
bohering her until she does it.
Frederick Lonsdale's "The of Cheney
Cummings settles down for few theater
weeks single play, this may be the
having splendid time comedy hopping
the people who watch her.