Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-14

but that was when every one l
However, to finish the stor.
began here one day last week, II
row night as planned.
The candid, slightly hurt adj
vertisement in which Producer
Kermit Bloomgarden said he
would have to close the play
II attendance did not, pick UP.
has earned a reprieye for We'd
ding Breakfast" A SUFFICIENT
number Of ticket buyers, it de-
veloped, decided they would go
and see for themselves what the
critics meant by it being tender.
touching, amusing. ETC."
This encouraged Mr.. Bloom
garden but it was not the only
encouragement he found.
The cast supplied some. It,
too, liked the play and three Of
its four members agreed to take
salary cuts to keep 1t going. The
fourth decided to leave, but
wedding Breakfasts" new pros
poets were not sos shaky a re-
placement could not be found,
easily.
The surge Of public. interest
after the producer wrote his visit
full explanation to New York's
tieatergoers is a nice thing to
have had happen to a play as
likeable as Wedding Breakfast"
This is what the Washington
critics called it when it was at
the National prior to Broadway.
That they meant 1t was in
dicated by the fact that they all
enthusiastically turned play doc
tors for Producer Bloomgarden
and Author Theodore Reeves.
This after writing unminced re-
views to the effect that Wedding
Breakfast" could stand consider
able doctoring on the basis Of its
opening night performance here.
How far its new momentum
will carry wedding Breakfast"
remains to be seen, but, for the
time being at least. the play re-
mains.
GUILDS SEVENTH: 1.-THE
Tender Trap" announced for a
fortnight at the Shubert begin
ming February Z. will be the
seventh play in the Theater
Guild-American Theater Society
subscription series for the cur
rent season.
It will also be the first Of the
series to take subscribers to the
Schubert. The Max Schulman-
Robert Paul Smith comedy with
Kent Smith, K. T. Stevens and
Russell Nype heading the cast.
will take the road at Princeton
on January 81. play a fortnight
in Philadelphia, and then come
to Washington on the third leg
Of its road tour.
Its theme Of, approximately,
chow eligible is an eligible bacil-
elor" is one that the producers
think should have an especial
appeal here. Why is for a depart
ment less gallant than this one
to speculate on.
CRAZY. MIxED-UP, ETC:
Where it all will end knows
heaven, but the movement Of
theatergoers across the face Of
the globe is taking some strange
turns.
Strangest perhaps is the "show
plane" which will be flying into
New York from Paris late in
February, carrying 43 playgoers
to see the production of Fanny"
Among these will be Marcel Pag-
mol, the most logical Of the 43
in that he happens to be the
author Of the trilogy of French
plays upon which Fanny" is
based.
It will be Mr.. Pagnol's first
visit to the United States.
New Workers are almost more
excited by the more provincial
project of the "show bus" which
is being set up to transport big
towners to New Haven late this
month for the opening of 1.-THE
Pajama Came" This. Of course,
Is the road company Of the hit
to which New Workers, In COM
mon with all other kinds Of
humans, cannot buy tickets.
The show bus which will take
of from Sardi's front door, Of all
places, will stop en- route to
permit the larkish passengers to