Evening star., 1953-08-31

Miss Errolle, let it be just a.
she is gifted. ;. She is a girl VIII
then, misfortune) in her stride
This department discovered that
by making a luncheon date with
Miss Errolle. "A luncheon with
Miss Errolle is the kind for which
a man will crack out his last
fresh summer suit. And,
what he is determined, shall be
his best manners.
The latter. it turns, out is not
always within a mans control.
lies perhaps in the configuration
Of his stars. At least in this
case.
This grotesque revelation came
just after Miss Errolle and her
fellow diner were seated in the
Raleigh's Raleigh room.
"They are waiting for you in
the other room Pall Mall) ;"
Jack Edgar, the maitre said.
Whose waiting in the other
room?" we demanded. :.
"Well," said Jack, "the man
from the National, Eddie Plohn,
Louis LotitC. of New York, Dick
Coe and two Others" who
turned out to be Leo Sullivan
and Alex Billanow.
Prior commitment?", Miss
Errolle identified it. I'm that
case you'll have to keep it."
You're crazy to leave this
luncheon" said John Janis who
runs the Raleigh room with such
crispness-and with such obvi-
ously good judgment as this
estimate implied. A sane
man does not leave a date with
Miss Errolle, even for a prior
obligation.
you're crazy said the Messrs.
Lotto, Plohn and Coe when the
situation was explained to them
at the other table. Go get
Marthe, or don't come back"
Mr.. Coe insisted. It turned
out that Miss Errolle could not
see the slightest objection to
merged luncheonS. Also that
what a tableful Of male diners
need is a girl that's lovely to
look at and talk to.
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1t also turned out that Miss
Errolle, who gave critics, and
the customers at Carter Barron
Amphitheater, the conviction
that she is a highly polished
Julie, actually is playing the role
for the first time. She has
loved the part, musically and
dramatically. all the way back
to its point of origin, 1945.
And she though Jan Clayton's
performance in the original
Broadway show was superb. "I
saw it at least three times, liked
1t better each time" she says.
And what made her happiest
with the rhapsodic notices in
the Rock Greek "Carousel" is
little involved. . For one thing,
she just stepped out of the title
role in kiss Me, Kate" a char
acter as sophisticated as Julie is
naive and innocent. =. F.. :. Begin
ming with a hair-do. from
Slicked-back elegance to soft
waves, I changed in every way
possible" Miss Errolle says.
But I didn't know how it
worked until after the first per-
formance, and the reviews. I
was delighted"
But, as was said, it is more
involved than just that. Miss
Errolle, who has a beautifully
sculptured face. is sick of being
thought of as merely an elegant
singer and being regarded
as committed only to elegant
roles. :. Julie Jordan presented
escape. The next time some
producer looks at her as if she
we're too classic to sing and act
a simple girl, she can tell HIM.
She is not certain he will
listen, of course.
What she would like to see is
q revival Of "Carousel," which
she and many others Cincluding
Mr.. Lotto. he said) think is the
best musical ever written by
Rodgers and Hammerstein. . .
She would like to play Julie in
it, naturally. No girl we know
is better qualified.
MONDAY MEMOS: "Carou-
sel," by the way, enters it's Sec
ond and final week tonight, as
clearly the hit of the summer
operetta series but seats are
available in the 4,400-seat am
ph1theater, the better ones in
the early part of the week =.
1t will leave town next Sunday
night with the seasons record
in Miss Constance BENEFITS
series. Opening tomorrow
night: Christopher Fry's "A
Phoenix Too Frequent" and
Thornton Wilder's Happy Jour-
ney" at Arena Stage. Both
plays are brief. The former
is directed by Zelda Fichandler,
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