Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08

and will be playing through
Prince Albert is sad be-
yond reach in a nimbus of
melancholia. Two years have
past, but his days are haunted
by the FACILITATING memory of
Laocadia. In a trio of days the
world had been theirs and
then choked by her own
extravaganza. Her veil of chif.
fon, flung in farewell, wound
too tight about her neck and she
was gone!
The Duchess, aunt of Prince
Albert, flutters helplessly. In
vain her every effort to relieve
the burden of memory of her
young nephew fingers. An idea
occurs to her, and a young
Partisan milliner is brought to
the country estate where they
live.
Amanda bears an uncanny
likeness to the lost Laocadia.
Tutored in Laocadia's ways by
the duchess, she stands in for
the memory. Prince Albert is at
first fooled by the masquerade
and they live in the fantasy.
But Amanda is Amanda. Fin
ally she cannot be Laocadia.
Prince Albert, facing the real
girl can neither give up his loss
nor accept the reality.
1t is a land of make-believe,
this country estate, the lush
forest in which Amanda wan.
ders frightened and lost. The
night club and the inn are of no
world she knows and she longs
for Paris.
Time Remembered" tells a
story underneath its powderpuff
exterior. Prince Albert, enam-
ored of a memory grows up. 1t
is the duchess who, wise behind
her fey facade, shows that Lao
cadia actually was in love with
herself, and the prince in love
not with her but with his
created image.
Time Remembered" is, In a
subtle way, about growing up
Some of us do, some of us try,
some of us just stay!
The production at Olney Is su.
perb. There are four very
complicated sets which are
beautiful to look at and compile
ment the performances. AS the
duchess, Eleanor Phelps blends
qualities light and serious into
a meaningful characterization.
Robert Mill looks the lost
prince that he is supposed to be.
Angela Thornton's quite UNI
fantastic natural playing of
Amanda gives a balance to the
performances.
There is not a thing out of
place in Time Remembered"
The Washington Theatre Club
this week introduces a new play
by Herb Rodgers. This small,
growing, new theatre group,
1852 o st. NV. had its first
success last season with "Brecht
on Brecht." Winter Peach"
opening this week and running
through Aug. IS, features Her
mione Gregory Of Silver Spring,
and is a pre-Broadway try-out
of a drama dealing with the
conflicts and strains imposed on
a young couple by suburban
living.
The playwright is from Mary
land. Regularly professor of
drama at Maryland University
he left academic life to devote
himself to this play. The presen-
tation is being directed by John
Wentworth, founder of the thea.
ter club.
=. Sharon of Glocca Nora,
in Shady Groves "Finian's
Rainbow" playing this week,
will be Grace Olson instead of
Gale Storm. Originally produced
on Broadway in 1947, "Finian's
Rainbow" is an Irish fantasy
about a crock of gold, and lepre-
chauns, combined with social
conscious conflicts in America.
-. "Fantasticks" j.. the young
bittersweet musical which play
ed at the Wayside Theatre last
week will continue through Sat
urday. Jonathan Farwell, who
played in the Broadway produc-
ton, recreates his role of
"Elgallo" item to follow on
the Wayside's agenda is "Servi.