Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-06

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Playhouse.
How did you like the play
Henry Fonda who starred in it
for two years thought it pretty
light weight.
mot much" Miss Mann ex-
planned. Its hero is another one
Of those young men in a gray
flannel suit. He's an idealist
who works in a bank and is
neurotic about the pressures on
him to be successful. So he puts
up a fight against these pres
sures. The implication is that he
ends up q winner in this struggle.
But what does he win? At the
end of three acts, he does NOT
join the country club the bank
thinks he should join. This. it
seems to me, is not much Of a
victory"
This, 1t seems to us, is tidy
Judgment on Miss Mann's part.
y
Miss Mann. who strikes critics
and her fellow performers as
predestined for Broadway. almost
got there last season.
She got as far as off-Broad-
way. in the Cherry Lane The
ater's Thieves Carnival" and
few on Broadway actresses
aroused such raptures among the
critics. There was nothing OF
an overnight or new-girl-in-
town quality about this enthusi-
asm. It lasted, so long in the
case Of The Herald-Tribune's
Walter Kerr, that he recon-
mended Miss Mann to Olney.
and vice versa.
As it would, this sort Of pro-
fessional masculine fervor for
her and her work only intensi-
fed Miss Mann's conviction that
this is a splendid world for a
young actress to grow up in.
Miss Mann's next chore at
Olney will be as Celia, the bad
Dukes good, high spirited
daughter. in Shakespeare's happy
pastoral comedy, "As You Like
It." After that, she will stay to
play Kitty in the theater's final
summer attraction, William
Saroyan's The Time Of Your
Life"
ONWARD AND UPWARD:
The writing type continues to
get ahead in Hollywood and
there are those who think this
the simplest explanation of why
Hollywood itself is getting ahead.
Another writing chap. this one
. clever publicist, has just
zoomed at Paramount. His name
is A. C. Lyles who has becom~
an assistant producer and will
be sort of starting at the top.
A. C.'s first assignment will be
as aide to Producer Director Ed
ward Dytryk on The Noun
tains". the Henri Troyat novel
which will star Spencer Tracy.
Being an assistant producer.
A. C. will find broadening. The
picture will be shot at Chamonix
in the French Alps, q splendid
place to be.
ONWARD DITTO: 1t is the
same day that brings the an
nouncefnent of the impending
marriage of the Rufus Blairs'
daughter. Sandra Cathleen. in
Hollywood in August.
Last time we saw her. she was
Q wee four-year old whose favor
lite amusement was throwing her
fathers priced first editions in
the Blair swimming pool. AS
Muset asked: Where hast thou
ned, Oh my youth?
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MORE BIGNESS: One by one,
the movie houses lapse from the
old simple small screen standard.
Even the smaller theaters. Latest
to install big screen and the at
tendant big sound equipment is
the Plaza, the key Roth art
house.
The first picture under the
new dimension will be THE
Virgin Queen" starring Bette
Davis. Just when the manage
ment is not prepared to say.
You've no doubt made altera-
tons yourself and know how that
Is.
AUTUMN COMING: A memo
from Pearl Blanchard Long
brings the welcome intimationI
that some day summer will gol
away. It announces, more spe-
officially, that the Mt. Vernon
Players. which she directs, will
be holding tryouts on August Isl