Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-05

Leonard Bernstein (music)-
Arthur Laurents (book) D
Jerome Robbins direction
musical play will play its first
three prior Broadway weeks
here.
A week after it departs, on
the night of September l6 to be
precise. the first Guild-ATS
subscription play will arrive at
the National. This also is new,
a comedy by Herman CCaine
Mutiny'D Wouk called ma
lures Way" 1t deals with a
man trying to write a play
while being torn by the ankle
ties of his approaching first
venture in fatherhood. Orson
Bean and Audrey Christie are
in the cast. with an actress for
q third major role yet to be an
nounced. Basil Langton will
direct for Alfred de Liagre, jr.
Well also be seeing Paulette
Goddard. date as yet undis-
closed. This will be in waltz
of the Toreadors," which al
ready has delighted critics and
audiences in Paris, London and
New York. Melvyn Douglas will
be playing the unemployed satyr
of the Jean Anouilh comedy.
Mildred Natwick snickering at
his dreams and Miss Goddard
stimulating them.
Separate Tables" also is on
the Guild-ATS list. Eric Port
man. Of the original Broadway
company, and Geraldine Page.
who replaced Margaret Leigh
ton in the Terence Rattigan
two-play production. will star in
1t here.
mo Time for Sergeants" also
Is set for the National during
the upcoming season. Myron
Mccormick. James Holden and
Cliff Hall head the touring
troupe's cast.
The other five of the nine
plays to be offered in the sub
scription series are not yet set.
They will be chosen from plays
scheduled for showing at tho
National or Shubert Theaters
and announced by the Guilds
BesS Davis Schreiner when the
deal is definite. Among these
are THE Diary of Anne Frank"
Middle of the Night" with
Edward G. Robinson. The
Mariner Method produced by
Maurice Evans and Tunnel of
Love"
SURE. ROMANTIC - The
French film industry has select
ed Andre Cayatte's "Oeil pour
Oeil" can Eye for an Eye")
as its Venice Film Festival
entry. Cayatte is the man who
made his reputation with Jus
tice Is Done" and I'VE Are All
Murderers." the grim polemic
recently on display at the Du-
pont Theater. The French Film
ONCE reports that he is getting
away from that sort of thing
and, in fact, turns his atten-
ton here to romantic melo-
drama" IAN Eye for an Eye"
is the story of "a doctor who
feels himself responsible for a
woman patients death and his
obsession that the woman's
husband is out for vengeance.
Ever 50 romantic.
OPENING THE Hidden
River" which had a brief
stand on Broadway last season.
will start a two-week engage
ment at the Olney Theater to-
morrow night. Signe Hasso will
be the visiting guest star in the
adaptation by Ruth and Au-
gustus Goetz of the Storm
Jameson novel.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS u
Father Gilbert Hartke. head OF
the speech and drama depart
ment at Catholic University, is
busy with a directing chore.
He's staging THE Little World
of Don Camille" (his own
dramatization, presented at C.
u for the Players Incorporated
company in its seventh season
at st. Michael's Playhouse.
Winooski. VT. 1t will be pre-
sented there August 1917.
The Broadway run Of mo Time
for Scrgeants" has been ex-
tended and the comedy will now
run through September IA at
the Alvin Theater. This
uill takc il throuob O RIM Of