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Amusements
LOCAL DRAMA GROUPS
Alexandria T roupe
Turns to 'Murder"
: By BONNIE AIRMAN
■tar Staff Writer
The Little Theater of Alex
andria gets down to some
serious business this week
with that ghostly chronicle
of mayhem by Emlyn Wil
liams. “A Murder Has Been
Arranged."
The cast, under the di
rection of John W. Flynn
and Judie King, includes a
number of familiar names
around the local drama cir
cuit. Some of these are
Richard Barton, Genevieve
Flynn, Bob Bloch, Marsha
Greenspan, Jack Bum, May
mie Oyster, Florence Stretch,
Thomas Hartman and Nancy
Peters.
Performances, at 8:30
nightly, are Tuesday through
Saturday at the Cameron
Street Recreation Center.
Wednesday night's produc
tion is courtesy of the Boost
ers Clubs of George Wash
ington and Hammond High
Schools. v
Meanwhile, Bill McGuire
is casting for the Little Thea
ter’s next selection, ‘‘The
Happiest Millionaire.” He’ll
hear readings on January 26
and 27 at Ramsey’s Alley
Workshop. Production dates
, are March 14 through 18.
ALSO SERIOUS: Theater
Lobby members find them
selves involved in still heav
ier dramatic fare tonight
in the first of a four-week
end run of Fernando Arra
bal’s ‘‘The Automobile Grave
yard.”
Mr. Arrabal, a 30-year-old
Spanish exile residing in
Paris, has composed in this
work a contemporary passion
play in which Christ appears
as a jazz musician.
Included in Director Herb
RodgerM’ cast are Anne Mc
» Adams, Robert Fowlkes,
• James Thomas, Jeff Bell,
* Donald Gately, Ruth Sher
man, Dan 2 Rubenstein and
Bonnie Toman.
Tonight's performance, at
17 St. Matthews court N.W.,
is at 7 o'clock; Friday and
Saturday curtains are at 8:30
pm.
lONESCO OFFERING:
The work of another con
temporary European play
wright is the choice of the
Market Playhouse for its next
production, beginning Satif
day. This is Eugene Ion»s
-’ co's “Victims of Duty,” fea
turing one Choubert, a char
acter who holds the convic
tion that every play is a
detective story.
Sharing major roles in the
production are Bert Bram,
Alice Bruches!, Mark Near
man, Miriam Snavely and Ed
Stein. Friday and Saturday
curtains are at 8:45 p.m.,
Sundays at 7:45 p.m. at the
Playhouse, 1039 Thirty-first
street N.W.
AND BECKET: The Player’s
Studio and George Washing
ton University’s Canterbury
Club have taken on quite a
chore this week in their pro-
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THE SUNDAY STAR
WesAugtoe, D. C.
January 15, IM!
duction of Samuel Becket’s
“Waiting for Godot.”
The two groups are gracing
this wonderfully controver
sial and provocative work
with a good measure of their
own originality. All lines
have been pre-recorded by
the actors, who will move as
silhouettes on a half-dark
ened stage. Director James
Ballard is credited with this
staging innovation.
Cast as the Viadimer and
Estragon, the two tramps
who await Godot, are James
Weiner and Joseph Kelly.
William Robert Schafer plays
Poz z o, George Denny is
Luckey and George Creswell
is cast as the boy.
SINBAD VISITS: It’s about
time for a touch of light
heartedness, and the Child
dren’s Theater of Washing
ton provides just that next
Saturday by sponsoring two
performances of "Sinbad the
Sailor."
The production Is that of
the Merry Wanderer’s The
ater, a New York company
which is especially talented
in imaginative scenery and
lighting effects.
Saturday curtain times
are 10:30 am. and 2:30 pm.
at Roosevelt High School
Auditorium, Thirteenth and
Allison streets N.W.
NEXT UP: A Maryland
community theater group,
the Adelphians, have set an
interesting quartet of one
act plays for production Feb
ruary 14, 15 and 16.
These are Noel Coward’s
“Fumed Oak," George Kauf
man’s “If Men Played Cards
as Women Do,” George Kelly’s
“The Flattering Word” and
Lucille Fletcher’s “Sorry,
Wrong Number.” The place
is Buck Lodge School, in
Adelphi, Md.
AN ORIGINAL: A Whea
ton High School Junior,
David Knesel, has written a
play titled “Do You Want to
Be in Politics?” and his fel
low classmates, those who
belong to Wheaton's Wig and
Masque, will perform it this
Saturday. Joining It on the
program will be James
Barrie’s “The Old Lady
Shows Her Medals” and Paul
Galileo’s “The Snow Goose.”
Curtain is at 8 pm.
AN INVITATION: New
comers Interested in area
drama will be most welcome
at Tuesday’s meeting of the
Falls Church Community
Theater. A special feature
of the session will be a per
formance of “The Sleeping
Beauty," the fa
vorite which has been mak
ing a holiday tour of local
schools. Meeting time is
8 pm. at the Fink Build
ing. Little Falls road, Falls
Church.
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Statuesque Julie Newmar is about to meet
herself in stage and screen appearances here
in Washington. In the photograph, she’s
comforting Albert Salmi in a scene from
“Once There Was a Russian,” coming to the
National Theater on January 30. She is some
thing less than a comfort to Susan Hayward
and James Mason in “Marriage-Go-Round,”
screen version of the stage comedy, at Loew’s
Palace Theater.
SINATRA
Continued From Page D-l
midnight wearing sunglasses,
Sinatra got up from his table
and dropped a dollar bill in
a coffee cup in front of her.
“I always figured she had
to be blind,” he said to his
startled table guests.
Most of Sinatra’s feuds go
back a few years before
“From Here to Eternity,” the
movie that catapulted Sinatra
from a career abyss to the
multi-million property he is
today.
Rubbed It In
Before that movie, Frank
couldn't get arrested in this
town. His vocal cords had
hemorrhaged; the Govern
ment had slapped him with
a $250,000 lien on taxes that
he thought had been paid;
he had separated from his
wife and family and got in
volved in a hectic romance
and marriage with Ava
Gardner. A roof full of other
troubles fell on him.
Some columnists started
calling him a has been and
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He did “Eternity” for
81,000 a week.
“That $l,OOO was a gift
from Harry Cohn.” recalls
Frank. “I actually offered
to do the role for nothing.”
The role won Sinatra an
Oscar and zoomed his career
to the estimated |4 million
annual take it is now..
But he never forgave the
columnists who counted him
out in the dark days. A
friend says Sinatra’s code is
the one he grew up with in
Hoboken, N. J. Love and
help your friends and
punish your enemies.
Some important columnists
are forever barred from
Sinatra sets. Yet Sinatra has
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visiting newsmen from small
circulation papers when they
visit one of his sets.
About That Clan
A publicity man brought
his father, a printer on a
New York Jewish newspaper
on the set one day.
“If I had brought on any
one of six big-name colum
nists,” says the publicity man,
“Frank would have thrown
them off the set. With my
father, he couldn’t have been
more charming. He posed
for a picture with him, got
all the other stars to pose.
Then, later he saw that all
were personally autographed.
You figure him out.”
What about the Sinatra
clan—that select group of
Beverly Hills millionaires of
which Sinatra is the leader?
Its number includes Peter
Lawford, brother-in-law of
President-elect Kennedy; Pat
Kennedy Lawford, Milton
Berle, Sammy Davis, jr.;
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh,
Shirley MacLalne, Jack En
tratter, president of Las
Vegas’ Sands Hotel, where
Sinatra is > vice president;
Dean Martin, Joey Bishop,
Juliet Prowse, Sammy Cahn.
Jimmy Van Heusen and
others.
Jost Congenial
Frank officially denies that
the clan as an organized body
exists and that he is the
leader.
Songwriter Cahn says there
Is some truth in that.
“We are just a bunch of
people In the same business
who enjoy each other’a com-
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Cahn says Sammy Davis
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Interview with a national
magazine.
“That was the first I ever
heard of it,” says Cahn. “I
guessed Sammy just wanted
to belong to any clan that
wasn’t spelled with a K.”
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Organized or not, the clan
will be in Washington full
force for the inauguration.
Sinatra is producing a show
—featuring most of the clan
—he hopes will erase most of
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a fighter early in life. An old
friend of the family gives an
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His mother, father, uncles
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