Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-27
Drama News and Reviews
Doc Sees q Fine Film
In Mr.. Roberts PLAY
News and Reviews
Robert Ross Diagnoses Script as Requiring
Dialogue Changes Without Dramatic Loss
By Joy cormody


Robert whose mister Roberts
Of the richest acting items of the is Of mean
choy about the plays fate Hollywood
who set out actually to study medicine
diagnoses the film future of the Thomas HeggenJoshua Logan
triumph quite optmsicaly indeed
Naturally will be changes. principally in the
dialogue but this play than its
sailor talk of meanings its comedy its essential
the loss Of few words In
cidenta think the dialogue changes will be fewer than the
pessimistic think
caly films without violating Of the Hollywood
provisions characters in these broadly the
those Mister Roberts, have talked just like ervicemen True
they quite the words but the meaning and
the have been both rugged and recognizable"
Mr. Ross relaxed and intelligent man OF the theater
thinks the version only have the effect OF widening
affection for Mister Roberts" the best dramatic
postscript World War He will leave the role of Doc and the
play at the end of its fourth and last week here next Saturday
night Not for good, he hopes.
rather counting being Doc again in the version in
which, almost certainly Henry Fonda will be Mr. Roberts The
choice of the
he has shared in show business and he wants to direct film
production of it.
pondent that could play better Doc than Bob Ross
A Sharp Note on Mr. Roberts Realism
Take Mr. Ross there are many unorgettable per-
of Mister Roberts" his long association with the
play Of which President Harry Tumans last Wednes
day night.
unforgettabe with all due respect to Mr. Truman the
one ne cast gave tne gay before 10 patients at the naval Medical
Center Bethesda The performers will know which
the moved they by this highly special audience the
audience by the performance Mister Roberts The
to the play a continuous of delight.
Zone incident before the play almost funny
anything in the SCRIPT says You
dressedn that would get contaminated by self
respecting Navy unit atocousy such immaculate and
ordered a place the Navy Medical Center.
We'll couple of hospital characters who obviously not
expecting the cast moving through corridor They
astounded
"'what the? the first one said
ga shipwreck at least his companion observed"
Mr. thinks this fine criticism of the realism
Of Mister Roberts" One of the best yet
Whots Better Than Music Under the Stors?
What does actor after long travel
play this?
A long. pleasant would suggested layman
perhaps but not Ctys
Starlight Theater starting
Desert Song June Is and ending with Babes Toyland the
last week in August. @9& e. ~
It of being intelligent that intelligent
enough to like this of thing well the Others
Name anything pleasant than sitting cool dark
amphitheater summers night listening sweet nostalgia
music he That's why tens of thousands do the
country from Boston Dallas night of
popular departments Of entertainment the municipal
business"
Mr.. Ross is actor-drector who has been of
the better things and dramatic moments of the heaer but
he remembers wildly night ST. when
was directing in that city's famous Muny Opera.
t the 2lst consecutive night of the most incredible hot
spell knew he people kept turning
night after night much to take their minds off the problem
perhaps to hear the operas.
They little humanity possible the
their white dresses the shirt sleeves. They made
dramatic white blob night night
until it seemed there could be end to it,
Then the 2lst night, when the middle quiet
dialogue the first wisp of breeze in three weeks ed
leaves OF the in Forest Park Apparently almost the
10000 in the audience heard at the
reacted in the vent to sigh that must
the loudest human sigh in the history of mankind"
Mr. Ross would not like have dramatic moment re-
peated Nevertheless he would missed any
thing.