Variety (Jan 1932)

54 ^. .TufiB^jt Janwyry .^5* 1932 Pittsburgh, Dec. 28. Qllb«rt Miller and- Leslie HoT.-ard present a new co.-ncd.v bjr FhIlp.I2arty In three acts. Stogea by Mr. Miller. Settings by Aline Bernstein. At tbe Nixon (or one^iveck. Owen Arttiur...>.;> Blnlne Cosdner 'RuCiis Collier Frederick Forrater Cacella Renn' Kay Stt^ml Rlcbanl Regan WllUam Oargan Tom Collier .'•4 Leslie Howard Joe' Flak. .ttieodore Newtou Frano Schmidt • BettJ' Lynne Daisy Sage..... « Frances Fuller Grace Macolnber; .'...••Illia Chase Phllipl Barry off on another tan-, sent this ' time,. dvrellins between the comedy of 'HolMny" and th» serious liote of Tomorro^v and To- morrow.' A wen-written piece filled with the usual Barry subtleties- and hicetles, .with Iieslle Howard,- one of, the finest actors oh tl>e stage to- day, )h the leading role. ' 'Animal Kingdom' shapes as a play designed ' primarily for a class draw \fith lit- tle'or no appeal for the masses. Opening performance here -went poorly. Some - bad casting and a few^eak spots in coitstructlon sefit the piece <»n to anything: but & fa- vorable start. Substance, however, Is there,, and most of the faults were rectified by the'end of the weeic ' -liora Baxter 'was brought on to -rei^htce Kay: Strozzl, and other jreplacemenfca - are due. With an-, other scene being added for Clere- Utnd next w.eek, Gilbert . Miller should liava another show which will .appeal to New "york's carrhige trade; ' , . • Barry has a good Idea hen;, and he draws its carefully:" A bit .too. carefully,, perhaps;' Tl^ere are tliaes .'n^heh his subtlety 'seems to clpud the'major issue. He'-takes a sensl- ttve young publisher, dreamy''and aptlstlc, and. gives him bbtb a^ wlfe and. a mistress.' The. wife-has-all the. characteristics. 9f a,'mlstr.ess, and the mistress all of the requi- sites l^e 'w&nts lit a wl'l^e. A'uthdr shows the gradual 'degen- eration of the'leading .character Uh- >. der bis -wlfe'ff influence,- with the '< '.legal mate dangling' her physical charms in front of her husband to gain ber selfish., ends.^ At-a week- esd. party to 'which the mistress hais I aIso> been Invited she sees this'de- ca:y- In'th6 man she loves aUd walks out on him, apparently forev^'r,.al- though their relations since' bis miarrlage have been purely platohlo. .Fpr all ot.hia loose construction through the first .two acta and the first scene of the third-., act^--Barry has Iiuilt a cIos.lng. scene, that brills his .'theme home 'In what '' seem&'to be one of his'finest b^s of writing. His wif« has forced thcs husband against. bis will Into a! merger. She begs hiid to accept: his father's birthday check. And for the first time in his married life he-sees hia wife clearly for what she. is. He plies her with champagne. She goes warm and mellow. He leads here on. Touire going to be good,' she says, and he rel>lles in the a^rmatlve. The wife returns t9. her boudoir.' 1>on't be long,' she whispers. And the publisher en- , dorses the check over to his wife, places it under the mantlepiece tor physical services rendered and asks the butler tor his hat and coat 'I'm going back to my wlte,' he says simply. The scene turns 'Animal King- dom' into a Solldlflea whole and as played, principally by Howard, it is magnificent. There nre passages which appear to be a bit contusing, but whether this was the fault of the writing or the acting at the opening perform ance is a matter tor debate. Some of the characters couldn't be heard beyond the first rows, and the open- ing scene was,garbled beyond rec ognltlon. Several other situations sniftered a like fate. Howard,' of course, is superb. He plays the publisher with those rare touches which are distinctly- his own. The part, howev'- at times seems a bit slim for a star ot his proportions, and It might be Wise to fortify it before the trydut tour ends. Cou^d easily be ' done,, for there are several scenes In which the burden might be shifted to'his . shoulders instead of those of the supporting players. In the part' of the mistress Frances Fuller gets- a good break and makes the most of it, turning in- a generally captivating perform- ance that will be talked about Wll- llaih Gargan as the ex-pugillst turned butler drew exit applause, while Ilka Chase, returning to the Bta^e after a sojourn in Hollywood, does Well In her brief appearance as a somewhat thlbk-headed celebrity y hound. 'With the necessary cast changes being made, 'Animal Kingdom' should stand more than a good chance^ particularly with the so- phdsticates to ivhom Barry and Howard appeal, - . Cohen, GRAND HOTEi. (Coast) iios Angeles, Jon. 1. Belasco £ Curron, by, arrangement wltb Herman SbumUn mai tliry lloaea; original Broadway Impiesarloa, opened 'VIcki Baum's Interriallonal dramatki hit Xmas night dt tbe'BeloaiPk A;, to iSM too, produced by 'William Kelghleir and stased exactly aa done by Shunillo at the National, New. York. Three-act play in 18 scenes (which made lieoBSaary a revolving stage) hoMa the (oI> lowing coast caat: Tbomaa Henry, Arnold Kortr, Dorothy Tree, Marcelle Corday, Ian Keith, Christian Bnb, LesUe Thomas, Bar^ ry Burkbaxdt, Franic R^lcber, William Jef- treiy, John Uerkyl, Philip Morris, Coatea- Mootb, OIgs Baclanova, Bert Sprotte, Uerta LInd, Catherine Conrtn^y. Frank -Fanning, Harty Uollingaworth, Dayton- Lnmmis, John J. Cameron,; Marfa Tesnova, Kay Fish, Theresa Barber. Rafael Alvlr. Isa- bella Stevens, Hetza Matstan, Donna E>arle, Adolpb Fehlauer,' Rath Keller, Robert De- vlera. Max Locke, Karl'De La Motte, Carl Krivaok,' Albert Ano,. James Adamson. Juan 'Vlllasana, Qatl Qreenstreet, Fred Evans, Bogene Burr. Tom l^mer, Larry Magee, Jack Xhomoa, Dlok Seymour, Henri Swortz. Michael Bocodln, Gordon Oliver, Jean Hinih, UaHon Sheldon, Oeotge Amos, Wa^a Clayton, Jean Harper. Robert L.. Stevelwon, Grace Sutton, Oreg Finley, .Peg., 'gy Roitell, Jack Arthur, Kenneth' Bower, arry Pickett, Qwlght Andrews, . Grand Hotel' requires no 'com- injentary other than as a local prb- ductloii under Belasco '& t;urran*s sponsorship. At 12.60 it's a sWeU buy for ciast and quality of produc- tion which, without this Broadway 'expatriate having ever ^seien -.the original Shumlln presentation, must sutler but little by comparison. It is Itavlshly dressed in every de- tail, InclucUne. the revolving stage, which ihakes the 18 scenes a matter of moments, and on'caating it, .too. Is a. creditable i><erformance. Olga Badonova may Jiot stack/up alongside of Bugenle - Leontovltch, or perhaps . the . quite excellent Christian Rub' might have been a wee bit eclipsed . by Sam Jaffe's American creation ' of 'Krlngelein,' but the general- ensemble needn't shun comparison with the Broadway original. One wonders. in truth whether Henry Hull's original was better than Ian Keiith'a excellent conception ot the Baron, or whether Arnold - KortTs Freysing was sur. perlbr tn the east Dorothy Tree as Flaemmch6n was .equally distin- guished'along with the other out- Btanders in chaiacter assignments. Although many are just 'walk-on bits, the sizeable cast, makes it quite a problem for a top scale, but that 'Grajid, Better merits heayy trade Is.-.beyond dispute. ' Perhaps the oh|y;thlng tli^tHal^&t'mlUtate 'I'i^nst It has been the parallelism as in the past where advance pub- licity tin forthcoming picturlzaUons or «arly releases-hilled oft the local stage productions. 'Private - Lives' is a very recent case with the Ed- ward Everett Hortpn stage, version being flattened out .as soon as the Shearer fltln was released, although Horton did manage a nice few weeks. .Ditto with 'Man In Posses- sion,' Sid Orauman getting an even tougher break when the picture bumped'.off the play three weeks after the latter'a premiere. Metro at the moment Is readying 'Grand Hotel,' Hotel' along with the past week's openings 6f 'Lyslstrata,' 'Lucky Day' (colored musical) and 'Easy for Zee Zee,' is suddenly reviving slugfifish legit seasop. Maybe It's in general anticipation of the Olympald, which has more pretentious leglt fare on the tapis for '32. Aid the whole buildup will be kiUe^l by one i»oor sbotr. So far, however,::.the draw has be«n - liromlslngr. Production and InterpretatioA of the jazzed-'up "Lyslstrata' 'with Its substantial ''one set ot the fortress of Athens and Ita modern dialog; re- lating how the ladles of Athens an'd Sparta ended "war by refusing to shai-a their, bed with hubby until he promised .ho'd. ceaso. battling, was both a novelty and. a shock to the basically provlnOIal Anfielenos. The shook, 'which Ita metropolltan- Ism d^vered etaonld be financially stimulating on the tail end ot a thoroughly dull legit year. Nanco O'Neill's Lsaiatrata la a polished Job, mucb more so than Clarence Notdstrom'a delirious ca> vortings OS the' scantily clad Gre- cian warrior who .must have, his Wife or else. It exceeded the boonds of farce, btirlesiiaa or satire, Phoebe Fulton - aa tbe wife 'who works Nordstrom to a fever heat on stage and then airs him, -was a good se- lection; likewise -Daniel Reed as president ot the -Senate and Regina Kahl 'as the head Spartan dame. The huge supsorting cast, made up mostly ot persons who have been in and out of pictures^ itlayed smoothly.' Some are getting' as little' $10 a week. Among the supers is Edwin August,' once otae ot the most prominent names in pictures. ' "Lyslstrata' ' is 8[ood. for several week's unless the clty!s preservers, ot order and law.take a dislike to' Its spice. The ads are aimed at Ithe risible, ti^de 'With a 'dqti't brtnfflthe kiddles' theme, as are the ads ot 'Easy for Zee Zee,' another current leglt mere- dlreotly concerned' "with dirt for dirt's sake. A slough at tZee Zee' would, brlns an inevitable fol- low-up smack at 'Lizzie.' . And are the fiome-folks blushing these daysl ' . ' Sang. ' LYSISTRATA (Coast Production) George C. Roberson and Dickson Mor- gan Productions, Ltd., present Gilbert Scldes' version ot Aristophanes' "Iiysls* trnta,' directed by Dickson Morgan. Cast Includes . Nance O'Nell (as Lyslstrata), Clarence Nordstrom. Howard Nugent, Daniel Iteed, Ring Kennedy, Betty Mack. Phoebe FMIten, - Rcgina Kahl, Robert Adair, Stanley Price, Dorothy La Verne and many otbsrs. At Corthay Circle, Los Angles, Dec 20; top, fl.BO. Book Batahces Play T'hlrd .edition "for,Aben Kandel's 'Itabbl Burns'. Kaoder says that mnkes i)i> a little for.the short'run Ills play 'Hot'Money; had. '. 'What Norman Bel Geddes staged tor the Philadelphia Theatre Ass'n, In 1929, with a 32-week run on Broadway at (3.86 following, is iii the main what Dickson Morgan has staged in Los Angeles for 81.60 top. Even a comparison of names in the cast is not the usual one-sided spectacle in favor of the east for the western lineup is headed by the traditional Nance O'Neill and the locally popular Clarence Nord- strom. 'Violet Kemble Cooper and Ernest Truex created the parts and Miriam Hopkins also was in the original caat Out here the Hopkins counterpart Is,Betty Mack, and not bad. Until recently Fox-TVest Coast's two-a-day reserved seat film show-' case Carthay Circle and quite a (Inanclal problem as such, la located In a residential district 'at least 20 minutes by automobile from down- town Los Angeles and IS minutes from Hollywood. It will be an even greater matlneo problem for Dick- son Morgan and his guiding bank- roll, George C. Roberson, who have leased it Their intention Is to fol- low 'Lyslstrata' with other west coast productions ot eastern tid- bits, and they must be unuat)aUy attractive as a regular policy or LUCKY DAY - t<08 Angeles, Dec.^.. Artbnr Sllber, Rodney Pantages and Har> old Mooiehoase present. Colored revne in two acts opening to fl.BOMop at Maran, L. A., Dec 29. Book.-tty Edmund- Joseph and Nat Perrln; music Otis Rene and Leon Rene; lyrica, Ben Bllisoa; book and choir staged by Harl Dancisr: dancei, Harold Beobt: costumes, John Clayton Poole;-en-' tire production under Deisonal' ditectloii o( LaBoy Prins. Cast: Ales Lovejoy, Bddle Anderson, Alma Tnivers, LeRoy Brooms- Held and Aurora Greeley, Hellelujah Qaar-^ tet, . Marguerite RoblnsOD, - Edna Bair, Charles -Moore, Hdward Jones. Mildred Washington, J. Lawrence Crlner, Edward Thompson. Kathleen LaMarr, dlS Ingram, J. R. Manning, O. B. Morrow, CUB Ritchie, Jr., - Miulguerlte 'Washington . and two youngstera, Tommy Abemathy ' and La.wT«ne« Harris: 18 girl and .11 bar dane- eta; Jubilee.Singers (22). A lot Of £ast and a lot of show: tor tl.SO. It sho^ild be all iHght for;the Silber-Pantages-^oorheod - producr tlon trio. Sllber, former Fantoges agent on Broadway, who booked so prollfically for. old man Pan, .Is now. teamed with Alex's son, Rodney, as co-producer, with. Harold Moore- head, antecedents unknown. It's- a stronff colored musical with a story thread consistently dovetail- ing the sequence. It perhaps locks the production class of a Lew Lies- lie show nor can It be said that this one has a chance: for Broadway, but it should do plenty of biz hei^e. In 'Frisco and, unlike most Coast productions, it should be quite worth while. touring It Into the northwest southwest, etc. Owing to the quantity <rf .cast this may entail curtailment of personnel but even If they cheat on the number of peo- ple the musical holds enough basic merit. However, it Is the very abun dance of singers, dancers, principals and mixed choruses which makes tor such a flash In toto and permits for the building up of numbers. Principals are strong in them- selves. Alex Lovejoy and Eddie An- derson are a sturdy comedy i>air, ef- fectively motivating the colored man's plight-when they come Into unexpected fortune; how they diss! pate It and then by a windfall find themselves twice more on the/as- cension and descenslon, Alma Travers is a Florencemills- tsh songstress who belongs in big league company. For that matter, same goes . for Lovejoy-Anderson and many of the other pirlnclps such OS Mildred 'Washington,, comedt enne ; J. - Lawrence Crlner, . strong dramatic bulwark for straight line reading; the liifty s. and d. team, Broomfleld and Greeley; . ^ddie Thompson as the slicker; Cllffi Ritchie, Jr., With nice vocal delivery as juvenile, et al. ' Show's score by the Rene Broth ers, of whom Leon Rene is also the pit maestro, is tuneful and sounds productive of several hit possiblll ties. The Rene brother-composers are colored; all other authors and artificers with the exception of Earl Dancer are Caucasian. For the premiere, Georgle StoU, local maes tro, who opened at the Paramount, L. A., this week, conducted. He . or- chestrated the-score. Show Is much too long and can stand chopping. 'While pleasingly fast already, once some of that ex- traneous vocalizing Is axed, such as the 'Cootie 'Catchers' and 'Come Seven,' along with the usual over plussage that's to be expected In a colored ' show of enakehlps and wicked torso-tossing, it'll shape in swell style. There's still enough 'shake that thing* left to satiate the cooch disciples. - Production is economical, chiefly drapes and set pieces. Costuming, white not lavish, la nice and affords quite a few^ alc« dbatigea ^th'dut straining thQ. lbUdKet; 'Good Morning Suhablne* from tb(t barrier is a nifty starter setting, a fast pace which was 'c<>nslstently maintained. Stiqiry plot takes a nitty pok^ at Hollywood when the comedlana'iflnd themselves- burdened with Lud.wlg, a spavined horse, which a race track slicker unloads on them in exchange for a mess of dough one of tiiem won in a lottery. From their gloom and futile Efforts'to make tbelan- cient mare win a race, the colored chauffeur to a dnematio mogul dis- covers Ludwtg aa a possibility, for the "Wonder Horse with the 'Wistful Personality.' ' being so bony . and emaciated, and it brings the boys into the money. Thus things are transplanted to a premiere at the Parfay Circle, where Ludwig, the 'Wonder Horse, ha^ also learned not to neigh Into micro- phone, and where he appears fov. his own premiere la gala' trappixigs, with hIa personal rhiriestoned bart sjid private street-cdeaner rolling up behind him. First act finale is an effe'ctlva HSot Religion' choral fltish. Second lialf holds a torrid 'Rent Party* sc^ne In Harlem where the now broke .boys are trying, to raise the coin.. Intro- duces'the usual cooch' stuiX ;'wlth productibn-sidellghts'shOwing a col- ored Lesbo on the make; a-pair, after ' a - heated preliminary' te'rpsl-. chorean workout, retiring- only to emerge jkortlally dressed when rth.e gal's irate father bursts In, eto. Thie. pickln'-'em-up-and-laiytn'-'em-d^wn stuff, along with the mean cra^Un' and creepln'- hoofing, may have Uf be. toned down^ Following'a. jiollbreak experience, finaTeJs a Hsflem nite club flash.- ' Song possibilities are the opening 'Sunshine,' 'Never Had a Dream,' 'When' the Jlggs' Do the Juba' land 'Singing Sw6et Melodlea' Alma Travers* own two specialties, "Love Coming . Tour 'Way' and Tf TOu'll Just Come Back to Me,' were show- stoppers. ' ■ . Show ctin -Aperate ok6 tti L.. A. with that large cast probably be- cause of the nearby-Centtal avenue domiciles of most of the cost En tour it wlU. bo. a problem. - AheJ. « I I Elizabeth' the Quc^en (With Elixabeth Risdon) '' Chicago, Dec.'28. Following BO closely the Guild production of 'Elizabeth,' with Lunt and Fontanne, -this road company presented .by Acme Prdductlbns, must' pecesstrily suffer in Chicago Even omitting [the Th^ realize. that they cannot mi* the two indisifrimlnately. "** ; AnJMurdatl^,-:'they've decided m keep the tonajand spirit ot uTe orii*- Inal story, Allan Langdon Mortl?« romance ot two genemUons, and of a hate^that.has passed from one to the . other, (b virtually intact with Brian Hooker doing the adaptation To be sure, the character of Dr Harding. ad played by Charlie Win-' ninger. ia about 76% moro comedy> than the orlglniil, and also Ada Ma»' has lazzed up the. part of Uttlo Arabella, but these lighter moments- are still very much In the minority The . love story of Kathleen and' Kenneth Wayne, as well as the 60.. year.'Old ron^ance ot Mobnyeen and John Carteret are stIU predominant 'What Is going to happen is that many devotees , of: tnne-shows 'will find 'SmlUhg Through' lugubrious, and heavy while, on. the other hand, sentimentally minded playgoers (if' any) will like it. Judging by the. sniffling and 'the display of hand- kerchiefs Saturday night, this ought . to be' a corking - matinee show- and liked by women everywhere. - ToumanS has' contributed a flntt nusicianly score -that, right now. lacks the eest'and vigor generally associated with his melodies. How- ever, it'a defltaitely stated that he is adding Ave songs, several of a lighter character, this week and in- asmuch aig he has --always been noted for putting his hit numbers In at the lost minute, tills present fault may bo- .entirely rectified. Right now ISruma In My -Heart' (rtot as well staged as it could b« - and coming rather Idte in the show) is (easily outstanding with 'SmlUng Through.' <Ktnda Like Tou* (llght)v and 'Kathleen Mine,' are outstand- ing. - The orchestrations are excep-- tlonally noteworthy. . . WInnlnger Is the hardest worker and brightest flgure in the cast He has never been funnier and he Is also authoritative -in the dramatic nioments. Needless to -say he In-' vests the role with all the sym- pathy for which he Is known. Ada May is lively''and 'I66ks better and dances with -mote spirit than she has in several seasons. Norma Ter- rls, on the'other hand, has not worked into her role yet. Her sense of comedy Is tier biggest asset arid she gives promise of being able to sing her dlfllcult ballad numbers in capital style as soon as she shakes off her Hollywood mood. She is not helped by her make-up as Moon- yeen and her dancing is not . as easy as It used to be.- Tom Powers from the Guild, gives a dignified and moving per- formance as John- Carteret, while Nick Long, Jr., adds one or two In- tricate dance specialties. Michael by comparison. Even omitting the Bartlett Is artificial and unreal In comparison this production fails lir his eary^^nes-bur excellent at the giving the Maxwell 'Anderson Inter- pretation an even break.' ' At the Studebaker at ' I2.S0 :top the 'producers took no chances and at the outset sent the show Into ithe cut rates. Acme title is local mo!ney with Harry Minturn, who directed this copy, at the bead of It Why Minturn.' a' veteran actor with'many salient pointa in his favor, didn't'ac- tlvely i>arttcpate In the cast is something, he alone can answer. Entrusting,the very Important part of Essex to George Blackwood was a <^stly mistake. Not alone does Blackwood miss on his own, but he detracts much from ah otherwise excellent performance by Miss Ris- don in the name part, For the sticks, and where they haven't seen Lunt and Fontanne, this production might get by, ■ but not in Chicago.' With all the good work Miss Rl.sdon does it still doesn't save the show, which Is pat- terned similarly enough to the Guild production to-make the comparison stand out Only comparable feature is in the staging.. Settings are practically the same.- 'as -are the exits and en- trances, but there it ends. In per- formance this castj with but few- ex- ceptions, doesn't approach any fur- ther than an average little theatre group in a small town. Moreover 'Elizabeth' Is not actor-proof. It has to be played. From all of the pretty large cast and outside ot Miss Ris- don, - the performance of Brandon Evans' Sir Robert Cecil Is the only thing worth mentioning. It appeared as though the job was too big for the remaining principals, who faltered and fioundered badly. Doesn't seem likely that this outfit stands :d chance of sticklig around much, after the holidays. Bpan. end. The principal scenes, ithe Car- teret Garden, Is okay, but a couplo of other settings are iniicfa below par. Some of the costumes,' too, ore out of period and unattractive. It win take all of three weeks and plenty of patient care to get this one inta shape, but the chances are it can be done. Waters. SMILING THROUGH Philadelphia,' Jan. 4. "Vincent Toumans' production of a musical version 'Smiling Througli,' now playing at the Garrlck, was far frpmi ready at Its .opening d week ago. General consensus fo first nighters, and second string critics who covered tho show, was that It tvould need herculean. efforts to whip It Into shape. As caught Saturday night (2), 'Smiling Through,' while-still a long v/ay from being a candidate for Broadway honors, nevertheless gave evidence that after this week here and another fortnight on the road It may turn Into a good prospect Main problem of those working on It has been and is whether to keep the romantic story, with Its frequent moments of pathos and tragedy In tact, or enliven and brlghte;i' it with more musical, comedy co^iventlons. EAST^FOR ZEE ZEE Hollywood, Jan. 2. The N. T. east side burlesk tech- nique has hit Hollywood, only the burlesk -brethren couldn't get away on 42d street. New Tork, with what this smutty abortion achieves at the Hollywood Music Box, a leglt stand on Hollywood boulevard which only a few months back housed Shaw's 'Apple Cart.' . Heralding 'risk $1 to see the most risque show,' 'Easy for Zee Zee' doesn't need the caution which the. 'Lyslstrata' p.a. inserts In his advs., e., 'don't bring tho kiddles.' This 'un makes. it plain further that minors under 18 won't be admitted. Which gives an idea. Many walkouts the opening night were not so much because ot the dirt as for the general stupidity of the proceedings, with the double ent'endra and the' psuedo-French daring so inane it became a waste of time long before the second act expired. This Is the opus which Sid Gold- tree ran' 61 weeks at his Green St theatre lii Frisco, and which Rich- ard Wilbur is presenting here by an-an^oment The alleged 'sophis- ticated French farce in three acts' places a new Interpretation on the term, and Pierre DlJon, probably a phony monicker, pleads guilty for authorship. An Inept cast struggles with it. and If that's the allegedly original S. F. cast, after 61 weeks of school- ing, It's pitiable to imagine what must have been, their histrionic standards In the early weeks of their run. But still, considering the material, and also even considering the w. k. depresh, perhaps that standard ot trouplng Is no more Miitn to be expected. Box-olBce stag line Is the Imme- diately .outward tip-off on the b. o. . appeal. At $1 and $1.B0, since that's all Wilbur Is presumably after, he should do all right, providing the local gendarmerie Isn't too much aroused by tho not unanticipated. alarums from the provincials who are getting a double-barreled dose from this and 'Lyslstrata,' opening but one night apart. Wilbur, who produced tabs on the coast; probably staged tho local pro- (Ciontlnucd on pngc B6)