Variety (March 1959)

Wednesday, March 4, 1959 LEGITIMATE 61 Casting News ; Continued from pace M ; Joan Broaderick, Reiko Sato, Val¬ erie Harper, A1 Lanti, Paul Wal¬ lace, Carol Warner, Sharon Shore, Chad Block, Maureen Hopkins, Lillian D’Honau, Shirley Nelson, Carol Stevens, Larry Roquemore, Merritt Thompson, Elizabeth Watts. Lute Song: Dolly Haas, Shai K. Ophir, Philip Boumeuf, Leueen MacGrath, Estelle Winwood, Tonio Selwart. Clarence Derwent, Asia, Dean Crane, Donald Symington, Rain Winslow, Tom Emlyn Wil¬ liams. Gypsy: Paul Wallace, Faith Dane, David Winters, Jack Klug- man, Marilyn Cooper, Mort Mar¬ shall. Rivalry: Jim Campbell (under¬ study for Richard Boone). OFF BROADWAY Hamlet of Stepney Green: Ruth Sobotka (succeeding Blanche Mar¬ vin), Harold Herman (succeed¬ ing Michael Gorrin). Fashion: Joyce Ebart. Geranium Hat: Rosina Fernhof, Tom Carlin, Jacqueline Bertrand, Flora Elkins, Patrick Hines, Leon Stevens, Tom Luce, Dolores Rashid, James Frawley, Marvin Peisner, James Inman, John Mirande, Dorothy Estler, Hen¬ rietta Hirshburg, Richard Durham. Heloise: Albert Leberfeld (suc¬ ceeding Richard Neilson), Brendan Fay (succeeding Albert Leberfeld). Ole: Florence Rochelle, Lloyd Harris, Paula Zwane. Our Town:- Jane Mac Arthur, Clinton Kimbrough, Jean Muir. She Shall Have Music: Pat Tol- son (succeeding Lawrence Weber). OUT OF TOWN As You Like It: (Stratford, Ont., Shakespeare Festival): William . Needles, Irene Worth, Douglas Campbell, Douglas Rain, Francis Hyland. Babes In Arms: Barry Burns, Barbara Fenelon, Franklin Kiser, Joan Hovis, Milo Bolton, Sherry Kaye. Garden District: Anne Francine, Donna Cameron. Television “Camera Three,” educational, drama, CBS; producer, John Mc- Giffert. Submit photo and resume for consideration. Nat Greenblatt (524 W. 57th St.). Dela McCarthy Assoc., 515 Mad¬ ison Ave. Casting, Colin D’Arcy. Submit photo and resume for con¬ sideration. Grey Advertising, 430 Park Ave. Casting, Jim Kaye. Submit photo and resume by mail only. Huntington Hartford Agency, 13 E. 48th St.; casting director, Mar¬ shal Migatz. Auditioning by ap¬ pointment; applicants mail after March 10, photo and resume. “I,” filmed on location — CBS; producer, Gilbert Ralston; casting through Marc Merson; address by mail only, Barbara Tuck, CBS, 524 W. 57th St Available parts: un¬ usual types, interesting faces, good physical conditions, will consider applicants having had odd occupa¬ tions. Submit photo and resume. J. Walter Thompson ad agency, 420 Lexington Ave.; casting direc¬ tor, Evelyn Peirce. Commercials only; cast from file; application for appointment, photo and resume by mail. Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton ad agency, 420 Lexing¬ ton Ave. Casting, Richard King, Mail photo and resume. “Lamp Unto My Feet,” religious drama, CBS; producer, Don Keller- man; director, James MacAllen. Submit photo and resume for con¬ sideration. Nat Greenblatt (524 W. 57th St.). Lawrence Welk show (Plymouth _ Motors), ABC-TV — Seeking teen¬ age vocal and instrumental per- pormers for guest appearances or as permanent band members. Sub¬ mit disk or tape nome-recorded acceptable) of 'wellknown pop .or. standard numbers, plus recent photo, short biographical summary. Address . Plymouth Show, ABC Studio, Hollywood, or 2623 Santa Monica blvd.. Santa Monica. Lennen & Newall ad agency, 380 Madison Ave., casting director, Harriet Wilner. Interested in photo and resume of character types only, at present. “Look Up & Live,” religious- dramatic, CBS. Producer, Jack Kuney; casting, Marc Merson. 524 W. 57th St Casting from files. Mail photo and resume. N. W. Ayer & Sons, Inc., ad agency, PL 7-5700; casting direc¬ tor* Guy Wallase. Casting for Breck Shampoo, available pnr£s for pretty natural blondes or femmes with light red or light brown hair, about shouldc^ length or .there ahouts. Phon$ for appointment. National Screen Service, 1UC0 Broadway. Casting, Carl Carbone. Submit photo and composite for consideration. North Advertising, 6 E. 45th St. Casting Frank Higgins. Cast from files for the Toni commercials. Pre¬ fer models with good hair. Mail photo and resume for considera¬ tion. Reaeh, McClintion & Co., 505 Park Ave.; casting, Esther Latterell. Photo and resume accepted via mail only for commercials; boys, girls; middleaged and elderly men and women; also young and mature women for shampoo commercials. “The Verdict Is Yours,” unre¬ hearsed courtroom dramas. CBS; producer, Eugene Burr; director, Byron Paul; casting contact, Liam Dunn, CBS, 524 W. 5?th St. (do not phone). No open casting; all done from files. Submit photo and res¬ ume for consideration. WRCA-TV, (30 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y. 20)* accepting appli¬ cations for auditions for all gen¬ eral talent, except dramatic actors, alternate Tuesdays. Apply by mail to “Open Auditions.” Films . - “Key Witness.” Producer, M-G-M, 1540 Broadway, N.Y. Available part for male Negro teenager, handsome. Photo and resume may be left at office, atten¬ tion of Dudley Wilkinson. Industrial Buick Industrial Show for Sum¬ mer, 1959. Choreographer, James Nygren. Call for Equity femme dancers, March 5 at 10 a.m. sharp, Mark Hellinger Theatre, 237 W. 51st St. ATPAM Pension Continued from page 57 who fail to pay an assessment within 30 days after it’s due, “shall be considered to be in bad standing.” If the assessment isn’t paid within a stipulated period of time after that, the member, ac¬ cording to the constitution, “shall be suspended from membership.” The union’s pact with the League stipulates, “The employer agrees that it will not employ or continue in its employ any managers, press- agents or local area pressagents who are not members in good standing of the Union.” The notice to the members also took into account that some might not be able to bring all their ar¬ rearages up to date immediately. In that case, arrangements for pay¬ ment ean be worked out with Weintraub. Richard Rodgers u. Continued from page 57 available, Philippines, Hawaiians, Javan. v , Puerto Ricans, Negroes and other Americans were cast in the show. “It would be almost impossible to find a more striking conglomera¬ tion of colors and ideologies,” he said. “Yet all of these people dress', eat, work and play together in harmony and obvious enjoyment of each others’ company.” Rodgers was given the Human Relations award for his contribu¬ tions to the cause of tolerance, no¬ tably for the anti-bigotry song, “You’ve Got to Be Taught,” from “South Pacific.” The lyrics for the number were written by Hammer- stein. Earfy Curtain Continued from page 57 + O’clock Theatre,” = slated for fall opening at the John Golden, N.Y., would be an example), would presumably want to start perform¬ ances at a later hour. But while general acceptance of an early ring-up would be preferable and perhaps even necessary, no one has suggested that it be. compul¬ sory.. ' Tne idea was briefly tried and abandoned on Broadway some :eavs rgo, but that obviously vasn't conclusive. As the London ooire ras indicated and the ad- ’ Broadway flrst- t; hi; rmed, the early cuiL.’n uiakes Literati U.S. Dailies’ Slight Dip For the first feme in seven years, circulation of daily newspapers in the United States was smaller in 1958 than in the preceding year, according the 91st (annual edition of N. W. Ayer’s Directory of News¬ papers & Periodicals! Combined circulation of English- language dailies is now more than 56,500,0Q0, representing a drop of almost. 250,000 over, the average for the previous year. The exact fig¬ ure is 56,695,787. The decrease re¬ flected loss of circulation due to strikers in several large cities, and that some papers raised the price per copy. The nation’s evening papers had a daily circulation of 34,184,797, up a few thousand. Morning news¬ papers were down several thousand to a total of .22,273*214. Sunday newspapers lost 173,121 circula¬ tion for a total of 46,631,755. Ed Seaver Rejoins Braziller Edwin Seaver, after nine years with Little, Brown, as ad-pub man¬ ager, has rejoined George Braziller Inc. as editor and veepee of the publishing house and its affiliated Book Find Club, the Seven Arts Book Society and the East and West Book Club. Before joining Little, Brown, Seaver was g.m. of the Book Find Club, after 10 years with the Book-of-the-Month Club as publicity director. Seaver has himself been a pub¬ lished novelist and for several years was promotion consultant on book properties to 20th-Fox. Coltart’s U.S. Tour James M. Coltart, managing director of Scotsman Publications, Edinburgh, and of Scottish Tele¬ vision Ltd., is currently in the U.S. attending a world prqss course at University of Missouri where the 50th anni is being celebrated of world’s first school of journalism. He is on a three-weeks’ trek in the U.S., and also will gander tv operations in New York and Chi¬ cago, latter for survey of industry organized by the U.S. State Dept. Coltart operates the directorial assignment for commercial tv in Scotland and also the newspapers controlled by Roy Thomson, in¬ cluding the prestige daily, The Scotsman, and the new top-circu¬ lation TV Guide, both printed at Edinburgh. 'Holiday* Up Holiday magazine has established new highs in first quarter revenue and lineage on top of last year’s record breaking first quarter, ac¬ cording to Ralph Hench, veepee and advertising director. Mag’s ad revenue for the first three months of 1059 totaled $2,- 101,251, up 8% from last year's record of $1,946,326, while linage aggregated 177.737, a gain of 4% over the 170,960 lines recorded for the quarter last year. CHATTER The Clarkslown Citizen Inc. changed its name to Rockland Citizen Publishing Co. Inc,, ac¬ cording to a certificate filed in Albany. Roy Fisher, editor of the Chi¬ cago Daily News amusement pages, has left for a post with World Book Encyclopedia. He’s replaced by John Stanton. Manuscripts Inc. authorized to conduct a publications business in New City, N.Y., with capital stock of $20,000, $1 par value. Directors are: Keith Jcnninson, New City; Herbert L. Jamieson Jr., New York; David G. Stone, Newark. By one of those coincidences, UPI staffer Ea*Jo:.e McLaughlin was on thht Secaucus, N. J., bus stickup, which the N.Y. Times frontpaged, under his byline, “58 on Stagecoach From Big City Robbed ’Way Out West in Jersey.” Jack Robertson, former ”w.k. show scribe in Scotland, and ex- editor of Sunday Chronicle and Glasgow Evening News, retired from editorship of Sunday Mail, Scotland. ' He penned film and stage pillars at Glasgow for many years. John Ott, cardonin" expert on Chi station WXBQ whose “How Does Your fh/clvr. Grow?” was once on the NBC-TV net, has au¬ thored “My Ivory Collar,” a book on photosynthesis and time-lapse photography, which 20th Century Press has published. * “Vienna. Source Material on Eastern Problems" Is the title of a new periodical, published by Stiasny, Graz-Vic-nca. It contains much cultural nev.s from behind the Iren Curtain countries. It is aimed to further “a better under¬ standing of the East by the. Western world.” . Sylvia Herscher, general man¬ ager for Jule Styne productions, has similar duties for “First Im¬ pressions.” “The Rope Dancers,’* directed by John Ulmer, is being presented by the Equity Library Theatre at the Lenox Hill Playhouse, N.Y., through next Sunday afternoon (8). The Playhouse is also being used by ELT for a Directors Forum tomorrow afternoon (8). The Playhouse is also being used by ELT for a Directors Forum to¬ morrow afternoon (Thurs.) and a Directors’ Showcase the follow¬ ing afternoon (Fri.). Eddie Dowling is stager of “The Time of Your Life” production, being presented tonight (Wed.) through next Saturday (7) at the Boston U. Theatre. Arthur Sircom will direct next summer’s productions at the Elitch’s Gardens Theatre, Denver, which begins its 69th season early in June. Anna Deere Wiman has joined Violla Rubber as co-producer of the touring production of “Garden District,” opening March 11 in Atlantic City. Gerald Freedman has been signed to assist Jerome Robbins in the staging of “Gypsy." Leo Gaffney, drama editor of the Boston Record, has returned to his desk after several months’ ab¬ sence due to a heart attack. Arnold Moss, who’s been on the Coast contacting possible stars for the projected production of his dramatization of James Stephens’; “The Crock of Gold,” heads back; to New York today (Wed.) with a stopover in Ft. Worth for an ap¬ pearance in his one-man concert reading, “Seven Ages of Man.” <• Pressagent Max Eisen returns to New York today (Wed.) after a quickie hop to Dublin for the opening there last Monday (2) of “Good Will Ambassador,” which he represents. Edward F. Kook, president of Century Lighting, planes Friday (6) to the Coast for one of his periodic visits to the firm’s Santa Monica office and factory. He’s due back in two week's. . Max Allentuck and Vaughan Bellaver, who were married last Thursday (26) in New York, are on an 18-day honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean. They’re the respective general manager and casting direc¬ tor for producer Kermit Bloom- garden. Virgil Miers, Dallas Times- Herald amusements editor, arrived last week in New York to catch the Broadway shows. After a two- week stay he’ll head for the Coast to o. o. the studios. Charles R. Meeker Jr., Texas State Fair v.p. and managing direc¬ tor of the annual State Fair Mu¬ sicals, is due from Dallas next week to line up his 12-week sum¬ mer sked. Ex-agent Alan Brok is trying to arrange an off-Broadway revival of “Cue for Passion,” Elmer Rice’s modem-dress, modern - psychology rewrite of the “Hamlet” story. Robert Colson, who took over as supervisor of courses for the Amer¬ ican Theatre Wing when George Alan Smith resigned last fall, has also withdrawn, and Garrison P. Sherwood has since quit after try¬ ing the post for two weeks. David Crandell has been elected president of Pasadena Playhouse Associates of N.Y., with Marjorie Knightson as first vice-president, Vincent Bowditch second v.p., Lisa Fillraan secretary and Nancy An¬ drews treasurer, Rosemary Roths¬ child is executive-secretary and publicity rep. The musical and dramatic seg¬ ments of “Talent ’59,” sponsored by the Broadway Show League, will be presented, respectively. May 5 at the St. James Theatre, N.Y., and May 8 at the Broadhurst Theatre, N. Y. Frances Adler, currently appear¬ ing in the off-Broadway double-bill, “Electra” and “Harlequinade,” is completing a biography of her actor-father, the late Jacob P, Adler. “Noye’s Fludde” (“Noah’s Flood”), the Chester Miracle play set to music by Benjamin Britten, will be given its U.S. preem March 16-17 in the James Memorial Chapel of Union Theological Seminary, N.Y. “Father,” a new play by Paul Goodman, is planned for April pro¬ duction by the Living Theatre to run in repertory with the group's current off-Broadway production of “Many Loves.” Fenic A. Vogel is designing the new Pine Brook (N.J.) Show Tent. Helen Bonfils and Haila Stoddard have scheduled an early April opening at the York Playhouse, N.Y., for their production of “Come Play With Me/' a musical based on Marcel Achard’s “Voulez-Vdus Jouer Avec Moi.” The book was adapted by Tamara Geva and Miss [ Stoddard and the music and lyrics | are by Dana Suesse. j Mickey Leonard is doing the in¬ cidental music orchestrations for : “Desert Incident.” Robert Fletcher, Tehoni Vachli- oti Aldredge and Nicola Gerna- vitch are, respectively, designing the sets, costumes and lighting for the forthcoming off-Broadway pro¬ duction of “The Geranium Hat.” “Without Consent,” by Jack Perry, has been optioned for New York production by Jerry Beyer. John Kander is doing the music arrangements for the vaude and dance sequences in “Gypsy.” He and Dave Rogers are also among those supplying material for the “New Faces of 1959” revue, which is now planned for Broadway pro¬ duction next September or October. Emmet Callahan is company manager of “Juno.” Peter Zeisler is the musical's production stage manager, with Randall Brooks and Jerry Crews as assistants. Off-B’way Review The Beaux Stratagem Phoenix Theatre (T. Edward Hamhleton and Norris Houghton, managing directors) revival of two-act comedy hy Georg* Farquhar. Direction, Stuart Vaughan; scenery and costumes. Will Steven Arm¬ strong; lighting, Tharon Musser; inciden¬ tal songs and music, David Amram. Stars June Havoc, Phoenix Acting Co. (Eric Berry, Meredith Dallas, Patricia Falken- hain, Rober Gerringer, Sylvia Short); features Barbara Barrie, Robert Black¬ burn, Tom Bosley, David King-Wood. Opened Feb. 24. ’59, at the Phoenix Thea¬ tre. N.Y.; S4.60 top. Innkeeper ..... Robert Gerringer His Daughter . Barbara Barrie Thomas Aimwell.Robert Blackburn Francis Archer . David King-Wood Mrs. Sullen . June Havoc Dorinda . Patricia Falkenhain Squire Sullen . Eric Berry Scrub . Tom Bosley Highwaym?n . Meredith Dallas Country Woman . Betty Miller Lady Bountiful . Sylvia Short Other Highwaymen .Albeit Quinton. Jesse Jacobs Sir Charles Ireeman ... David C. Jones Footmen . James Patterson. Jerry W. Hardin Plays like this Restoration (by courtesy) comedy are apt to be favored vehicles for actors and col¬ lector items for theatre buffs, hut don’t offer much fer the general public. Hence this off-Broadway revival is unlikely to do much toward the restoration of the Phoenix Theatre’s depleted fi¬ nances (or prestige) and merely marks the abandonment of the enthusiastically proclaimed policy of last fall for the production of the works of Nobel Prize authors. If this .edition of the seldom- seen George Farquhar romp of¬ fered as much enjoyment for the audience as it appears to for the actors the show could be a smash. The guest players and the regulars of the so-called Phoenix Acting Co. give the impression of having a lark. The reviews have been mixed, however and the word-of- mouth comment will hardly be enthusiastic enough to incite many takers at the $4.60 top. June Havoc, guest-starring as the unhappy but ready-to-be-had wife of the loutish country squire, and Patricia Falkenhain, one of the Phoenix standbys playing her amorous sister-in-law, carry the brunt cf the story in tandem with two guest romantic leads, Robert Blackburn and David King-Wood. In varying degrees they all seem a trifle self-conscious and “cute.” Robert Gerringer is a bit heavy- handed as the venal innkeeper, Barbara Barrie is animated but mannered as his minx-daughter, Eric Berry is acceptable as the oaf¬ ish country squire, Tom Bosley plays it broadly as his servant, Meredith Dallas acts a highway¬ man as if the part were a cross between Capt. Hook and Ben Gunn, while Sylvia Short is a rauc¬ ous Lady Bountiful, David C. Jones presents a judicious gentleman as a straight-man,* and James Pat¬ terson and Jerry W. Hardin are needlessly intrusive as footmen functioning as stagehands. [ Stuart Vaughan, who has ac¬ quired a modest name for the di¬ rection of outdoor Shakespeare revivals and a couple of previous Phoenix productions, has staged “Beaux Stratagem” with the sort of labored joviality of a PTA Santa Claus. Will Steven Armstrong has provided ostentatiously simple im¬ pressionistic scenery and the tradi¬ tionally ruffled costumes, Tharon Musser has supplied the lighting and David Amram is credited with the incidental music, including a portion of a song borrowed without credit from another Restoration piece, Sheridan’s “School for Scandal.” Probably much of the inade¬ quacy of this version of “The Beaux Stratagem” is inherent in the play itself. It isn’t exactly a bad show—just somewhat tedious. Hobe.