The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-19
JOE LAZARQYICI
SCORES TRIDMPH
in r. WILLIAMS
ONE-AGT GEM
by SUSAN McAvoY

sense Of security. | know that |
ran sit back and enjoy the per
Torrance effectively, instead of
suffering waiting for cues, en-
frances and exits that may never
come off.
Satisfaction and security were
mine throughout the magnificent
performance OF Joseph Lazarovi-
ci in THE Last of My Gold
Watches third of three one act
ers produced by The Circle Play
ers last night at RauPs.
Joe, as the last of the Delta
irummers' in Tennessee viii
hams' play, limped, groaned and
grunted the part Of the 70 year
old Charlie Cotton, shoe sales
man, so that everyone in the full
audience lived and began dying
with him.
The play, written before
Death of A Salesman is
Southern preview Of that trag-
edy of William Loman made
famous in three acts by Arthur
Miller.
More compressed, more in
tense and more heartbreaking,
Williams genius shines through
in the capsule tragedy Of an old
salesman facing only the night Of
death, the passing Of the old
times, old friends, and the Last
of his solid gold watches.
Joe Lazarovici, directed by
Mazda Lazarovici, in the one
meter carried us through the
emotions Of nostalgia, ppignancy,
and bitter futile tragedy of a
life spent accommodating IS solid
gold watches as the ranking
salesman Of Cosmopolitan shoes.
Also at the night Of life with
Charlie is the old Negro porter
of the Mississippi hotel ably
played by Bishop Jones. Jerre
Snader with his bored monosyl-
lables is the antithcsis Of Charlie
the tradition-rieh, eloquent yes
tige Of the days when salesman's
hotel rooms were flowing with
laughter and liquor and there
was hope Of winning the 10th
gold watch.
II was I.azaroviei, however,
who took the stage from the
moment OF entrance and played
against the backdrop, provided
by the other two characters.
In as different a mood as
could be conceived. Noel Cow
ards Hands Across The Sea-.
was the second on the nights.
menu at the theater-in-the-i
round.
Rae Waller romped through
the edy as Piggy, the
bird Drained Britisher who cam
not quite place the .frightful
colonials' who break into her
Mayfair cocktail hour. Though
still carrying traces Of the
Brooklyn accent Of Billie Dawn
in her recent triumph Born
Yesterday Rae loped through
her lines with the greatest of
ease and captivated the audience
sitting around at tables in the
middle of the restaurant
Hugh and Alice Bredin as the
Wadhursts from Malaga who
drop in to accept the year-old in
vitation of Piggy to visit her
in London. were exactly right.
Bredin's British accent threw
the rest of the casts softer
sounds into contrast, as he clip
ped his brief and painful sem
fences. Alice Bredin, who was
the victim of Piggy's perigrina.
tions with the ceaslessfy active
telephone did nice little baffied,
bird-like movements and sounds
throughout.
Ed Giesbert VINO served as an
nouncer for the play, played a
super-diffiden Englishman.
come to deliver some ship de-
signs TO Piggy's bearded Navy
husband. Though his lines were
few, Ed kept my eyes roaming
toward him because OF his ex-
pert business poriraying the
fish 20 end all fish out OF wafer.
Anna Clare Topmiller rs a
tweedy, horsey girl was fine. as
were james Mclaughlin as Pig.
gy's husband, Martin Talcott.
Robert Youmans, and Charles
Hastings
But il was Rae and the nre-
dips who carried the Coward
lines and silenccs,
The Happy Journey" by
Thornton Wiisier was the opener
on fsSt nights program of one
acters which run through Sahlr-
day night az Rauls.
Here | must make my con-
fessiun. / promised that ! would
get 10 Raul's 20 review the plays
even il il took bicycle or hell
copter or swimming
! got there in d smooth riding
Buick convertible, but il did not
hit the road for Raurs until after
10 when the first play opened.
We got in the middle &c the play
and my embarrassment at walk
ing IN late duiled my sense OF