Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-01

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Morton DaCOsta, the young
30 per cent tax bracket via
this one, mo Time for Ser
geants" and "Auntie Name"
will direct. E. At the moment.
he's busy in Hollywood with
the movie version of Name"
for Warner Bros. Kermit
BIOOmgarden, a deadly serious
producer specializing in Arthur
Miller until he discovered the
profit and delight of musicals
with Most Happy Fella," is
top man on 1.-THE Music Man"
Washington suffers long de-
lays on bookings of hit musicals.
The reason? It Is such a
good town into which to bring
them for long spring-summer
runs when they are two or
three years old. Viz the
eight big weeks Of "Guys and
Dolls" and the IL of South
Pacific" a few summers back
This year, the spring-sum-
mer tenant of the National,
moving in at Cherry Blossom
time, will be mo Time for Ser
geants." It's stay will be
indefinite, until it runs out Of
audience.
PEOPLE: Busiest man in
town yesterday, at least in the
arts if not in politics, was David
Lean. Mr.. Lean, this corners
odds-on choice for this years
Academy directors award, is
the man who made Bridge on
the River Kwai." A slim,
crisply professional type, Mr..
Lean paid Washington a quick
visit to arrange the premiere
of his picture at the Trans-Lux
on March Is. A benefit this
will be for the American Field
Service. 7 here will be a lot
more on him here later (advt).
Runner-up, at least in his
display of energy, is Cyril
Ritchard. The star Of the
Ehubert's ''Visit to q Small
Planet" is everywhere socially.
He was guest last night Of his
fellow Australians in Washing
ton. At an after-theater
party given by the Southern
Cross Club at the home Of Mrs.
H. G. Deignan, 2120 Bancroft
place.
Olive Dunbar, a talented girl
in Arena Stages 1954-5 COM
pany, will return to the group
for its Romeo and Juliet,
which opens March II. ;. She
has been busy, principally off,
Broadway with the Cherry
Lane Theater and with Welles-
ley's Group 20, since leaving
here. She will play Lady
Capulet in Arenas "R and j."
In which the title characters
will be played by Astrid wills
rud and Clayton COrzatte. :.
Noel Coward is a bigger hit in
San Francisco than he was in
New York. Out there, he is
alternating his recent New
York Nude With Violin" with
present Laughter"
John Houseman has ex-
banded the schedule Of the
American Shakespeare FeS-
tival theater and academy pro-
gram to include courses this
summer in teaching and direc-
ton. There will also be a
12-week acting course under a
faculty which includes Mr..
Houseman, Director Jack Lam
dau, Morris CarnOvsky, Fanny
Bradshaw, John Butler and
Phoebe Brand. Henry
Fonda and Ann Bancroft, the
entire cast of 1.-TWO for the
Seesaw," have provided New
York's Booth Theater with its
greatest hit in As years 1.
Bigger even than "You Can't
Take 1t With You" and
"Claudia" to mention but two.
PROJECTS: Make a memo
of early curtain times when
"Long Days Journey into
Night" comes to the National
for one week starting March II.
The three and one-half
hour biographical play Of
Eugene O'Neill will open nightly
at 8 pm. Matinee curtains
will be a 2 pm. Howard
University drama department
comes up next week with a
novelty, a one-hour opera, "A
Christmas Miracle" by Owen
DOdsOn and Mark Fax. The
authors are professors Of drama
and music, respectively. Per-
formanceS are set for Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday
nights at $3.50 pm.
Yale co-eds CHATS what we
said) will act as usherettes for
the dual world premiere of de-
sire Under the Elms" at New
York's Odeon and Sutton Thea