Evening star., 1950-04-22


Their talent for this sort of
Scout group bought a benefit per
formance by the Montgomer!
Players and then proceeded to sci
1925 tickets for a 900-seat schoo
auditorium!
Fortunately, the extra 22l
ticket-buyers did not turn up fol
the benefit performance. which
probably goes to show that Cub
Scouts have one of the sharpes
business instincts in the history
of the theater.
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Variety carries a somber story
from England this week to the
effect that not a single one of ]
Arthur Ranks once-busy film
studios is now in operation.
Nevertheless, Producer Rank
can take heart from the continued
brilliant success of a pair of his
greatest films, Hamlet" and THE
Red Shoes" Both are heading
toward gross earnings of $5 mil
lion in this country. No movie
maker ever earned a more tri-
umphant $40 million with films
which dared to break with tradi-
ton so handsomely as these.
Continued success of THE Red
Shoes" in it's popular price run
at the Trans-Lux is deferring even
such an anticipated film opening
as The Bicycle Thief"
Speaking of the Montgomery
Players, as we were two star
dashes ago, they have chosen
THE Winslow Boy" as their final
play of the season. 1t will be
given April 20 and May / and
at Leland junior high school audi
torium, and there will be three
English players in the cast to give
1t authenticity. English profess
sionals. two of them.
These are Hilary Knapp and
Kenneth Thompson, Mrs. Knapp
as the spirited Catherine Wins
low a wonderful sister for any
Winslow boy, and Thompson as
her rather stuffy suitor. The third
English player is Thompson's son
who plays boy. not the Winslow
one, in the cast.
Mrs. Knapp is co-directing the
play with Jane Rice.
The county players place in the
community has grown to a point
that it's play attendance has
reached a level of $500 for those
productions which extend over
four performances.
A little memo from Fordham
University about its next play has
a melancholy flavor. It announces
that the work will be William
Saroyan's Sam Ego's House and
that the production will be the
world premiere of the work.
Maybe it will electrify Fordham
as once Saroyan electrified Broad
way.
Errol Flynn, who was a suave
Forsyte in That Forsyte Woman
In his last picture, will go back tt
his guns and riding pants in hi
next work for Warmers, the par.
ent studio. Title of the picture will
be Rocky Mountain" just one
mountain, and it will deal with
life in Nevada in the 186Os. Flynn
has had a lot of experience in imi-
tating the life of the nineteenth
century in the west.
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OddeSt, and in some ways the
most dramatic spectacle in the
theater during the week was that
OF Mary Martin, Ezio PIMA ano
the other members of the South
Pacific" company watching South
Pacific" No. it wasn't a movie
but a live production of the Rod
sers-Hammerstein hit by the sec.
ond company, the one that will
open Monday night in Cleveland
The Janet Blair Dixon Eastman
touring unit is second" only
chronologically. 1t is know, anc
properly, on the billing as the
National company.
The South Pacific" pioneer.
thought the new group. also di.
rected by Joshua Logan. was &
superb company in a superb We.
hicle.
Saturday summary: Three loca
showmen, A. Julian Brylawski
Frank LaFalce and Joseph Bre.
cheen, will head key committee,
IN the next United States bono
drive, as usual "The Song O.