Evening star., 1950-06-11
Shaw and Pou|ette
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She Will Play His Teen-Aee Cleopatra
Which No Teen-Ager Could Do
By Joy CormodY

There is no reason of course why any
pd at the combination Bernard Shaw and Pauette Goddard
Their collective talents playwright will
the premiere production Of this
areas major summer playhouse
the taceness of the feeling there something
pousnt startling Shaw and Miss Goddard theate
1t all because he is such an intellectual and MISS
Goddard much better known Tor ner oeauS anu Henne
than for her learning.
Nevertheless Caesar and Cleopatra" with Miss Goddard
the young Queen major excemens OF this seasons
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leading heate Oney and Dennis on Cape Cod are out
standing There possibility too that ne pooucnon
might be taken on road autumn project that has
excited Miss Goddard for sometime
Such tour in the play OF the agenda Of Sir Cedric
Harwick played Caesar and Cleopatra brilliantly New
York L Palmer 1t was dropped wnen moe
other revival Getting Married. presented to Sir Ceorc
Revering it could be that she will be one OF
the Ceoparas which Is precisely What she HAS Ill
mind.
'Teen-Aqe Cleo Beyond Teen-Age Actresses
Granting she is beyond which the Of the
Cleopatra would take sheer prodigy of the
close suggesting the merry young
the playwright nao IN nina Cleopatra hueeo can De
knows how much she did not know
They matured early the old Nile
This surely one OF the most conspicuous quaues OF tnS
portrait created by Vien Leigh the Gabriel Pascal
- h.r It was lust as evident In the performance
Palmer Broadway last winter.
1t explains in large Miss Goddards Cleo
Of the major anticipatons of the summer drama.
It explains Oney management decided to delay
of the theater for three weeks to start with an
the popularity standard SET IN tne past o ee
Hayes Tallulah Bankhead.
open with bang" the pet theory of theater
operators.
1t has been proved completely sound
There's Logic in Tuesday Night Openings
Tuesday openings for theaters have become
standard all the They the only answer to the
manifold problems which get attrac-
bes-which Tuesday nghtsopenins
admired for their and enthusiasm
polish might lack and enthu-
sasm companies to leap out OF closing show on
Sunday night the following night
Monday of rehearsal and so is most OF
Tuesday right until dinner time.
factor Tuesdays that gives audiences
week ends that strenuous IN
the summer season than any other.
washngtons theaters Oney Except for its
openng Congwood and Mclean will operate Tues
S:45 .
Incidentally Baleys Crossroads Va, the
local playhouses will Tuesday night
Charles Hoyts "A Texas Steer"
Actors Are Sometimes Hard to Find r
of its program competition of night
time sports and the boadcastng and teevng Of the
Hollywood embarked the biggest series of sports pictures
In its history Baseball and boxing couple of old sandbys
being supplemented these golf tennis and football
number producers wondering what they might do with
that great modern comedy, wrestling.
There big styme however. such projects namely
where find actor who initiate Ben Hogan in hm
Hogan's life! Only play golf like Ben Hogan
while there corkng golfers among hm actors
of them would aspire such prense that involved here
The week however Hollywood make neat solution
this dilemma Actor Burt Lancaster for the title
American athletes reputation
Thorpesize Thorpeke in and Of the most skill
full acrobats in the profession
But where will the next come from9