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PART CPAGE 2. Drama Critic Fays Visit to Wisconsin Slimmer Theaters ACCENT ON YOUTH" STAR BACK IN PANTHER ROOM) Relationships Summer Theaters a i IC S. T. indicates central standard Abbott Fears the Draft May Hold Up Play ot Mental 1 1 is. time; D.

S. T. Indicates dayllng savins time. ot William Bar. Wli J- Tlf Away Hans.

tonlcbt at Tba Man Who Can ta Ability Cited Bythe Re v. John Evans, D. D. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston Dlnnr." oprolnr next Suniar at t-Zti IC.

S. T.l Brow Coaatr It tKaahrUIa. Indl "Tha Mala Animal. PV.day and 5atcrtar By Burns Mantle. NEW YORK Special 1.

The luck ot the draw and the draft may play an Important part in at 8:15. IC s. T.l or. 4 neurologist, stated in a recent address at Columbia university that great mental ability is often closely associated with mental disease. If the sterilization laws at pre sent in force in Germany and Cali v.

ft 1 'J fornia had operated effectively in the early part of the 19th century, next year's theater. This was em-pha sized last week when two young mrn who are writing a piece called "A Young Man's Fancy for George Abbott received their ques. tionnaires. They are Ralph Blaine snd Hugh Martin. Pi It is pointed out, the greatest American social philosopher would never Rockwood Set in a Scene of Rustic Beauty By Cecil Smith.

Sometime when you are vacationing ia Wisconsin, start driving northward on Highway 57, the road lead-ins from Green Bay up into the lovely Door county peninsula. Just 26 miles byond Green Eay, perched high on a bluff above the quiet waters tt the bay. you will run across Kock-wood Lodjie, an attractive structure tf native limestone, with dining overlooking the bay. Here, if jou follow my example, you will satisfy jour hearty vacation appetite with excellent roast duck and some Wisconsin heese that is evidently too good to be wasted upon big city markets. If jou choose the right date and there are unfortunately not many to choose from you can leave your dinner table and walk a hundred yards to one of the most delightful outdoor theaters in the middle west- Here ycu will see a performance of competent quality and brisk pace, given by the group of amateurs who provide Green Eay with its only local wintertime theater, the Columbus Community theater.

If you do not demand Broadway sophistication and polished professional production when you attend the theater, but can enjoy for its own special qualities the unique totality of the Rockwood Outdoor theater, you will be glad jou made the trip. "Hie situation of the theater was have been born, nor would America's greatest philosophic psychologist, and Ceurge Abbiitt. roraell Riaair UmwUt tifouni Tenion. Ia. "Gwrtt Waahtnf um Itr." Thiiradar thra SaturOar at S.1V IC.

9. T.J fanalry larhn tlka Wawaaa. Ind "Mtit Miul rail." Waaaaaday thra ml Bunda? at 8:15. MX. T.l Gtwt Itrtrar ptarara Highway t.

tt-a Orrcon and IPiion, IU.l "Tha Trial tt Mary rhijan." vvtar at and 30; "Tbla Thine CJla4 Te." ThsrJay thr nxt Stinrtar at 8 30 and next Boadar at 2:15. IC. T.l Mlehlaaa Khan tha tar Hirawar XI, aiS mllra aaat ot Mlcblraa City. Ind taa-oua Turaday thru next 8 an (Say at SflO. 10.

9. T.l Narthwratrra Valrartltr Riant thamtr tNorthwetirn tulrcralty campus. ETacatoa. 111.1 Faahlon: Or. Ufa In Sew Tork." Monday thru Thnraday at 8:30.

ID. 9. T.l. Tort playnoaaa tHIchway 141. Port TTa.ii-irrton.

Wia.l Oorra Waahlnrtoa Slept tonifht at 8:15: rT-mrnt Wr.ln.ly thru Beat Sunday at 8.15. IC. S. T.l Hhady I an ptayhooaa IT thwr. SO.

S-4 milra wett of Marram, lu.j "Tta Way," Vmlfht at 8:15: "Tha Ba.1 Man. Wedneariay thru next Sunday at 8 15, ID. S. T.l Theater af tha none 12. fir ml lea -et of MichJran City, at Bexer.y certain Presidents of the United States would never have appeared upon the scene.

They both are 1 A risks as far as the army is concerned and expect to be called any month now, which threatens to put Mr. Abbott in a spot. There is a touch of irony in the situation, too. Abbott recognized the "Many Important personalities have had ancestors, collaterals, and sib lings who suffered from inherited Jimmy Dorsey and his band have returned to the Panther room of the Hotel Sherman for a month's stay. Singing with Jimmy are Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell.

Jnuiri Kruttmann mental disease in our definition of the term" said Dr. Myerson. "The talented and able personalities may be said to offset In every considerable The athletic-minded young Dickie Reynolds in "Accent on Youth," is pUyed by Kevin McCarthy. The comedy goes merrily on at the Selwyn theater with Luther Adler and Sylvia Sidney In the leading roles. Seymour Photo.

possibility of trouble with conscription and decided to try a crafty detour. He would organize a troupe of youngsters below draft age and then he would be safe for a couple of seasons, at least. The story of "A Young Man's Fancy" revolves around a prep school. For some weeks Abboit and measure the liabilities of their psychopathic stock. They have hrl social assets of great Probably the manic-depressive Vaudeville Shore.

Ind 1" Tha SlaJa Animal tamrta psychosis is the most common of the his chief helpers have been darting at ID. S. T.l mental diseases, Dr. Myerson con ere and there in the east, audition lYUonnala rnlTertlty alarera (Waeoniia Swinging Sweethearts" is the tinued, since In a very large propor Notes of the Theater ing talent in dancing, acting, and Cmon theater. Madion.

Wla.i ruhioni true music, hall dance which shone iridescent in the warm rays of her individuality, her disorderly colors, and her flushing magnetism of person." Little wonder that it was reported of her last days: "She was cheerful, however, according to others at the home, except on those ocr aslons, more frequent toward the end, when she bemoaned her lost fame." Death prob dramatic schools. By report, they'have Or, Ufa in York" Thursday and Friday at 8:15. IC. 8. T.l name of the stage show at the Rlalto theater.

Maxinc De Shon, June St. tion of cases the individuals do not enter hospitals: their cases are gathered in as talented a lot of Clair and Peaches are among the fea-1 covered over by the euphemism oungsters as have been given stage Phil Baker, the well known funny room in a long time. man, has decided to devote his sum- Central City tured performers, while the comedl- "nervous breakdown" or "exhaus-ans are Charles Country Kenny Hon," and statistics on its incidence Brenna, Bert Grant, and Jack Buck- In hospitals by no means gives any rrovided by nature, with minor Jm- mer to the high task of acting that Blnlne and Martin still are work- provementsl celebrated 49 vear old farce, Char- clue as to its incidence in society, the screen is "Too Many It took 22 operations, here and In Germany, to restore his vocal cords to a point at which they could make a useful squeak. At his. voice returned, lie was able to pick up his interrupted career, making a name for himself as a singer with his own band, and later breaking into straight acting with a stock company in Inir on the book and score of A ably came as a happy release to Irene ley.

On Blondes." made by "There are people who are defin Franklin. Young Man's Fancy." It is scheduled itely either chronically or moderately go Into rehearsal early in August MiCH. Ralph Mead The report that Judith Anderson depressed thruout their lives without for a September debut. II the gov At the Chicago theater the stage and his In any mental disease of disturbing na will be Maurice Evans' Lady MacBeth presentation offers the following en dus ious ture." asserted Dr. Myerson, "and Florida.

when he revives tertainers: The Whltson brothers. others who walk thru life as if they ernment should call the authors into service, however, the whole enterprise would have to be called off, which would throw more than a hundred stage folk out of work. ley's Aunt." He will try his performance out at Atlantic City during the week of July 14. After visits to Detroit and one or two other cities, he is due in Chicago either Aug. 3 or Aug.

10. The supporting cast will include Harold De Becker, Thomas Spicdel, and J. Richard Jones. Charles Alan is directing the production, which is sponsored by Arthur Klein. hen chman.

1 a er the Shakespeare novelty foursome from the Empire The handsome new air conditioned room; the Condos brothers, the two had swallowed an eternal bottle of champagne gay, hyperactive, tre theater at Michlana Shores, Rlx miles seats, for 400 patrons, tap dancers seen in "In the Captain Tlebor's seals; Blanche Brad Abbott probably wilt appeal to the mendously energetic, with somewhat scattered interests the chronic hypo- east of Michigan City, opens rise in tiers steeply draft board for a short deferment, should his au'hors be called, and I manic state, as it Is called. ley and the Sixteen Commanders, a singinc ensemble, and the theater's Tuesday evening Casts for the Central City festival, beginning July 5. have been announced. This summer two cperas are being staged. Gluck's "Orfeo and Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

In (he former Anna Kaskas will sin the title r61e and Margit Bokor will be the Eurldlce. In the Rossini work Brownlee will have the nam part, Stella Andreva will be heard as Rosina, John Carter as Count Alma-viva. Louis D'Angelo as Dr. Bartolo, Edwina Eustls as Bcrta and Paul Kwartin as Fiorello. All settings have been designed by the producer in charge, Robert Edmond Jones.

Frank St. Leger is the musical dU rector and Herbert Graf the stag director. This, the 10th annual Central City festival, will extend for three weeks. Some of the most interest Injj and Milwaukee for 1 1 a second ave an idea the draft board would ballet. The film is "Caught in the the bank of the bluff.

omewhere season. The first let the boys off until fall. After all, an tragedy next season is interesting and welcome. Welcome, because it disposes of the rumor that Katharine Cornell was considering a co-starring engagement in her lady-ship's Ale. It would, it seems to me, have been a successful people of the world belonged to this category of the non- Draft." Next Friday the stage show Without much advance warning, Arsenic and Old Lace" closed at play of the sum obs for 100 are pretty important to introduces Thll Harris and his down below psychotle, manic-depressive tempera 1 citizen morale, too.

Uwcaqo lhe nrand Opera house last night. mer is J. B. i 1 y's ment." the audi- arter a 12 weclc engagement, iaura Irene Franklin had been out of the According to one of the first com "Dangerous Cor Billy Gilbert of "The Great Die loa t50 50 Crews, Erne Shannon, Erich ner." John Mc theater for a good many years and prehensive studies of its kind ever made in an institution above 1.000 tator" and the movie sneezes, ap von Strohelm, Helen Twelvetrees, Jnrfllh AMmm. Il'lm-hot Mahill Jr direc only old-time playgoers remembered pears in person ural staee Herbert Corthell, Clinton Sundberg, enrollment, Dr.

John G. Woodruff, di tor of the thea waste of line talent to have given up v.v. rnvprin of and all the rest have gone their sep- her at all well when they read of her death last week. But in her day she rector of campus National Youth Ad ter, is staging both Evans and Cornell to the dole John MrM.hill Jr. turt V.T.ite birch trees completely arate ayS "rt thC SUm ministration at Colgate university, he production, achieved wide popularity.

As her for IConneUy photo. mer. v-ome orpieniuer, me Hamilton, N. has learned that 46 Betty Ilanna, ful "Macbeth" for a season. With the two of them it undoubtedly would have been a great draw and a great will be united and re-rehearsed, and tunes dwindled in the early 1020's, and one tragic defeat followed an per cent of the university's 1,050 men known for her work at the Civic a cross continent tour, leading ulti are receiving financial aid in the form AMUSEMENTS.

theater two summers ago, has been other in her life, she found it hard of scholarships, jobs, or loans. performance, but I doubt if there would have been great satisfaction in mately to the Pacific coast, will be undertaken. Meanwhile the Grand at the State Lake theater this week, sharing headline honors with Joe Sanders and his orchestra. The "Or Lert Hand-er" brings with him his featured linger, "Red" Hodgson, com poser of The engaged as an Ingenue with the resi to accept her lot. When finally he dent company at Michlana Shores, did give up and was accepted as it.

"Macbeth" is a depressing busl "Higher Education, Guide to Stu Opera house, which changes management on July 1, is vacant until fur and will appear. in "Dangerous Cor guest in the actors' home, her mind still clung forlornly to those past dent! in tha Selection of Collage er ness, at best, and always has been the least attractive item of a Shake ner." Plays to follow in the summer surround the stage, and even grow up out of the middle of it. Oa this rustic stage, plays are siven almost without scener for it might easily seem a serious affront to improve upon the decorative nchrme provided by nature. The stage and bleachers are illuminated by spotlights high up In the trees, which means that the Inevitable swarms of ins-ects congregate about the lights and not about the necks of the audience and the actors. ther notice.

The house will be oper years of glory. spearean star'i repertory. schedule will feature such guest stars as Ian Keith, Elissa and Irene ated in the future by the Hamlin estate, and neither Sam Gerson nor It seems to me the lot of the old- Evans lias tho gift of reviving a University," by Dr. John Eni, education editor of Tha Tribune," it now in the third dilion and may be obtained at tha cott of 25 cant direct, or 29 canti Turcell. Performances are given time stage favorites is a particularly new Intercut in old parts.

Ills read Billy Gilbert. AVI MA Frederick Stock nTl'T Conductor r. today at 4 p. m. LUCanO town rmrui IKO, RAM Symphony Xi(nU1.

rtiicstrct Arimtmnn 53- for 'MMren unrter Regular Keretl M-ai. 1 5c Ample r'ree I'arkmc. Inf. HuUscnurl TAoO or HuhUn.l rk. K-l SIR THOMAS BEF.C1IAM TneUv.

Thtirl. raliir1j. im.1 Music Goes Round Blanche nightly except Monday. hard one. They linve their memories, the Shuberts will be concerned In its management.

The Selwyn, Harris, and Studebaker remain Shubert but these are in such terrific contrast La Bow, vocalist, and Rex Downing, Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" by mail at tho Tribune's Public Strvico officet. Dr. Event will entwer quaitioni concerning educational problemt. houses. instrumentalist.

Also in the stage to the reality of failure that they must often sharpen sorrow and re will be presented tonight by the Jack show is Dorothy Keller, dancer. and Jill Adult players In their thea "The Peorle vs. Dr. Klldare" is the This department is all wrong in its sentment. Imagine Miss Franklin's feelings when, in entering the home, ter at 820 North Michigan avenue, Ing always is superb and his comparative youth and enthusiasm a little electrifying.

What can be done for a Thane of Cawdor he can do. And what need be done for his sleep-walking lady Judith Anderson can add with fine forcefulness. But it is a little to be regretted that they both will not be giving life to new and important modern r61es. Unhappily, there are not enough of these to go auguries. Last Sunday we said noth motion picture.

AMUSEMENTS The director is Cyril JanlckL she was assigned tho room formerly lnir about the closing of "Arsenic occupied by the late Fay Tcmpleton, and Old Laee," for we had no pre 'George Washington Slept Here" in August. Anita Louise and Made herself a toast of the town for years, is the current week's production at leine Carroll both want to play Mrs. monition in that direction. Our sug gestion that "Accent on Youth" the Cornell College Summer theater In North, too, and Anita is signed for Imagine Irene calling for her scrap- Mount Vernon, la. The leading femi the southern innocent in "Kiss The might close at the Selwyn was equally in the nature of a red book and thumbing again the enthu around, nor likely to be during the nine rfile will be enacted by Ruth Boys Good-Bye" at Ogunqult.

siastic reviews her work inspired next several years. herring. Sylvia Sidney and Luther Miller Handle, director of the Mason The Community theater performances at Rockwood Lodge are a summer extension of the enterprising civic program launched a few years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Mead, who have been able to give Green Eay its own theater, operating on a cash-and-carry basis, and to initiate the young people cf the community Into the joys and rair.s of public dramatic performance.

Seen in its large implications, the project Is artistically valuable to the whole region. The next Rockwood production, for those who still have a few tears left to tied, will be "Smilin Thru," on July 22, 23, and 24. On my way back from Green Bay I stopped over to see The Male Ani- The Idea of scoring in pairs was Adler will continue for one more City, Community theater. greatly encouraged by the success of Hollywood actors appear to be of week in that breezy and well written Here's one: She then changed to an evening cloak and tore off a snappy lyric about a vamp of nowadays who got bilious on soft drinks WSEM JOHNSON'S frff rv-SftT)(y SZ Will Fredric March and Florence Eld- comedv. I The Playwrights company Issues two minds about coming east for the two Important news items concern- summer theater season.

A few weeks ridge In "The American Way." The mark they are all shooting at, of course, is the chance to establish a The Sterner listers, the new aero- ing the 1941-42 Chicago stage cason in the barns, playing established roles, does put them in touch with the le instead of tipsy on the accustomed stuff, and it was a knockout." It Is a tribute from Chicago's Variety cor batic dancers in HellzaooPDin. ine nrst is to the ellect that Cornelia family following such as has made at the Erlanger theater, are natives Otis Skinner will appear here in Oc life particularly happy for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Edward of Pittsburgh. In the course of ex- tober in "Theatre," Guy Bolton's gitimate stage again, and if they happen upon a part in a new play being tried out, it may lead to a Broadway season for them, which is what most of them are eager to accomplish. tensive European travels they have dramatization of the novel by Somcr-annMr beta the klnc and aueen set Maugham.

The New York open- Sothern and Julia Marlowe, the Eng respondent of 1019, the Jack Lait who today Is managing editor of a New York daily. "The idea is a gem and Irene is a gem polisher. She swept the house with the bristling humor lish Kendalls of other days, and a rr.al" at the Port playhouse In Port of England in London, while in Paris ing will not take place until Chicago V. astmgton 25 miles north of Mil- th.ip included the duke and has seen the- play. The second of the considerable number of others.

But it happens that the western w-aukee. I felt reassured that my duchess Windsor, the king of Den- Playwrights' news items promises studios also are busier than usual this PRICES EVENINGS Hto-tls MATIN tES (SefOfr) MP- tlS cJacdutfeJ German Playwright, juegmect r.aa oeen correct iasi marki tne king of Sweden, and Al- that Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne year when I singled cut Port Wash- so of Sriain More reCcntLv they will return for a second engagement summer. The demand for names Is as great on the Pacific coast as it is on of it and her punchy personality In the delivery She did a French girl greeting Sammy, but she did It, so differently; and the song was so different, too. She got laugh after Geortr Kaiser, the noted German playwright, will shortly come to this the Atlantic. The most definite move ington as the best of all the summer nave spent jme making pictures in I in Robert Sherwood's There Shall theaters in this region.

Whether oth- Hniwoorf. including several shorts Be No Night." The date of this will country from Switzerland, where he ment eastward is being made by mar laugh and rounded it all out with a be some time after Christmas. At the has been living the last few years. In ers come aiong to cnaiienge us supe- or Warner brothers, ried pairs. The Davis-Lockridge com- rionty this year still remains to be present moment the Lunts are vaca dy, "Mr.

and Mrs. North," is ideal advance of his coming he has sold one of his recent plays, The Soldier for this, and there Is strong talk of Both Northwestern university and ecn. but at least the acting and production are fully as good this summer tioning in Genesee Depot, Wis. Later in the summer Mr. Lunt will direct Tanaka," for American production.

letting George Burns and Gracie Allen, and William Powell and Joan the University of Wisconsin begin their summer theater programs this a last- rehearsals of "Candle in the When he arrives he will bring with CHICAGO PLAYBILLS Mayor John H. Kaiser and the I the new Maxwell Anderson play week with Anna Cora Mowatt's amus him two more works. "Klawltter and Five Acts and Vincent Sells a Blondell. have a try at it Tyrone Power and Annabeila have picked citizens cf Port Washington are en which is to star Helen Hayes. Mr, ing period piece, "Fashion: Or, Life Lunt has never before directed any Picture," a comedy about Vincent themselves "Llliom," which they are a4e in New York." The Evanston per production except those'in which he Van Gogh.

hoping to be free to do at West port formances will be given Monday thru Thursday evenings ia the auditorium and Miss Fontanne have appeared. thusiastic about the theater that has now begun Its third season In their and their cooperation, so the layers tell me, has made the Port jlayhouse an exceptionally happy endeavor. The performances are given of the school of speech. Clement tot e- LJ. Flacstad's Plans? Ramsland is the director.

The Madi a Altho Kirsten Flagstad, the cele- son performances are scheduled for in the Community auditorium, which 1 Thursday and Friday in the beautiful braled Norwegian soprano, is sched ltn ALWAYS Inoks like a Congregational church. curt tit uled to make numerous American ap CONTINIING: My SUtrr Kilorn," comedy, adaptation of Ruth McKenney's book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, with Audrey Christie. K. T. Stevens, Philip I)cb.

and Guy Robertson; Harris theater; 20th week. llrllr.iippin'," revue, with Eddie Carr and Billy House; Erlanger theater; eighth week. Accent on Youtb," revival of the comedy by Samson Raphaclson, with Sylvia Sidney and Luther Adler; Selwyn theater; fifth week. new Wisconsin Union theater. MAROLD J.ICtNNC0V;Cet; iZSQ I House pearances In concert and opera next Lucrezla Boi and Larry Sothern, I season, starting with the San Fran who plays Capt.

Fletcher in My Cisco Opera company early next fall it has been announced by her hus -ith a gallery running around three sides. But last year the city council TTovided comfortable new theater seats, that the flesh is not mortified during an evening in the auditorium. The Port playhouse Is a profes Sister Eileen at the Harris, have band that she will remain in Nor one thing in common: Both lost their I voices and got them back again. Mr. I The' PALMER HOUSE way, where she Is at present, for the duration of the war.

Sothern strained his voice badly as I SYLVIA LUTWER SIDNEY ADLER the brilliant comedy- "Accent on Voutw sional, and not an amateur, summer a DOy soprano in premicrophone days, prtttntt a THE FIRST TIME IN CHICACO theater. Its three directors are engaged In successful civic theater work jrirg the winter. Morton Da Costa arid Wendell Whitten are co-directors and leading actors of the Dayton, Cvi: theater; Parker Mills has directed the Springfield, Civic theater for 12 years. Sa zmnay Cnnis the Be Bopm Rmdio 5 Kate) AND HIS GREAT ORCHESTRA Tit a a a a 9 Mmiitml ART Trta Ik 1 ear riTII JARRETT The Port playhouse is located right in the heart cf Port Washington, in the midst of an incongruity of fishing boats and humming defense industries. The city itself retains a great deal cf archaic charm, with handsome old brick houses remaining as mementos of an earlier day.

Yet It is a progressive place, with a pleas AND HIS OACHfST4 sario J-ltitonio (VIv71ma In tfaaeriaa) "WORLD'S FOREMOST LATIN AMERICAN DANCERS' 9 0 9 9 THE SMOOTHIES All STAR FLOO REVUE ant lakeside park equipped with a modern fcath house and band shell, and with many other evidences of continuing prosperity. "George Washington Slept Here," the second play of the season, ends its engagement tonight. From Wednesday thru next Sunday "Payment Deferred" will be presented, with the versatile Mr. Da Costa in the celebrated Charles Laughton rile. And Eight Star Acta, in fhoamou.

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