Evening star., 1954-06-01

All the other Broadway hit
stars. The PlaywrightS To-:
Gated Leora Dana for Margaret
SULLIVAN in "Sabrina Fair"
Just as this corner. among
others. suggested it could. =.
Sally Forrest turned up as the
summer substitute for Vanessa
Brown in "The Seven Year
Itch" And. of course, Joan
Fontaine for Deborah Kerr in
Tea and Sympathy" Carol
Charming did not necessarily
make everyone forget Rosa
lind Russell in Wonderful
Town" But she does make
the customers happily aware Of
Carol Charming.
Only Audrey left an unfillable
void. ;. Still, if the Playwrights
would like a belated suggestion
for a summer fill-in, how about
Joan Greenwood? She is
the nearest actress in quality.
and something of a look-alike.
that we can think of. And
now that THE Confidential
Clerk" has closed, she is at
liberty.
OF the males who must leave
Broadway for the summer, or
other commitments, hardest to
replace was Henry Fonda i
But Paul Gregory, that resource
full fellow. came up with Barry
Sullivan.
PEOPLE AND PLANS: Want |
a preview of Cinderella? i
You will find her in the pretty,
piquant person of Mindy Car
son Who opened last night |
at the Casino Royal here
Mindy. this departments fav-
orite Cinderella type in all Of
show business, will play the role
in a new Broadway musical Of
that name in the fall >. If she
is not the toast of the town
(the one named New York; by
Christmas. the town simply will
have developed a faulty taste in
toasts Which it did not
have in making Audrey Hep
burn and Jeanmaire it's toasts
this season.
Opening nighters at Olney
theater tomorrow will see T. S
Eliots only genuine hit in 10
years of playwriting This,
of course, is The Cocktail Par
ty." Eliot who has averaged
q play only every four or five
years is one of the dramas most
significant figures; but not one
its most successful "The
Cocktail Party" which will feat
ure Marjorie Gateson and Bram-
well Fletcher in this production,
Is his top achievement to date.
"The Confidential Clerk"
just closed. turned out to be
neither a hit nor a miss in the /
mercilessly fiscal terms by which
Broadway Judges It re-
couped its production costs. end
ed safely this side of the red
ink.
FALL FASHIONS: There's a
chance Washington will get to
see Eartha Kilt in her second
show in the autumn The
lynx-like singer with the incom-
parable style has signed to ap-
pear in Leonard Sillman's "Mrs.
Patterson" which will have sew
eral special musical numbers for
Miss Kilt The production
is scheduled for a long pre-
Broadway warm-up before it's
after-New Year opening in New
York.
Off-Broadway will continue to
plow the odd. as against the long
furrow. next season One
project, that of Joseph Kramm
who wrote the successful 1.-The
Shrike," is a downtown produc-
tion of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon
for the MiSbegotten. It was
ONeill's last produced play, with
Dudley Digges and Mary WEIGH,
and got no closer to Broadway
than Columbus. Ohio The
Alan Schneider (Catholic U.
Arena Stage) directed hit COM
edy, 1.-THE Remarkable Mr..
Pennypacker," may have to tour
without the services of Burgess
Meredith Producers Thea
ter, Meredith's current employer,
has new play ideas for him.
The Helen Hayes festival at
Coonamesset Theater, Falmouth,
Mass, will not end with "Wel-
come Home" the new play which
was to have had a summer try
out in the four weeks series
Richard Nash will not have 1t
ready in time for the festival, so
Miss Hayes will do MARY of
Scotland" instead.
MAJOR PROJECT: It's a large
and busy staff that is working
with Pauline Eaton Oak on the
American kaleidoscope produc-
ton June 8, 8, and 10 at the
Watergate In addition to the
overall production staff-Cathe-
rine Scott, Harry Meese, Irving
Day, Winthrop Baxter, and
Rhodes K. Scherer-directors Of
the II participating groups are:
Joyce Higley, Adventure Theater:
Bob Fabik, Foundry Players;
Mary Ann Prescott, Masquers
of Roosevelt Center: Don Baker,