Show THE OGDEN 4A STANDARD-EXAMINE- HAMMER5TEIN SPEAKING E OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JULY 22 1958 Theatre Dying Out? No hanging (Editor’s note: Up until about 40 years ago genuine American theater was characterized chiefly by the minstrel show and the evil villain type of melodrama Now however it’s a different story Here by a man who has contributed much to it is a graphic report on the vitality of American the- By OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Written for the Associated Press The strangest thing about the al-- i theaters history is that it isComways about to terminate ob-- i menators are traditionally sessed with a conviction that the theater cannot possibly lie more than a few ears beyond the time at which they write I don't believe the theater has even been as sick as they have thought it to he it is the commentators who have been sick with a kind of chronic necrophilia The source of this disease is not a wish for the theater to die Almost all critics love the theater Loving it they fret over it like an anxious parent When a change comes over the child they fly into a panic — forgetting that all things in the world keep changing Frequently they mistake growing pains for harbingers of a fatal illness TVO COMES AND A COFFIN ater today) Kaufman Moss Hart William Inge Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams among others Among the composers and librettists we have created and de- vcloped in this time are Victor Herbert Otto Harbach Jerome Kern Rudolph Friml Sigmund Romberg George and Ira Gershwin Irving Berlin Vincent Youmans Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart Cole Porter Frank Loesser Fritz Lowe and Alan Lerncr Maybe I am overrating half of these men and their piavs and their sons If I am it is still a good showing for 40 years ruggedly Our better playwrights meet their situations head cn not concerned about the embarrassment of the more timid in the audience Our acting has less pol- ish than continental acting or English acting Yet it has more vigor It is becoming progressive- ly more vigorous and less elegant and at a rate which may be a little dangerous The vital virile slugging per- formances that are coming out of the actors studio and similar groups might well be accomplished by a little old fashioned Shakespearean training seems to be exactly what is in the wind at the moment There IS a growing interest in Shake- speare and a growing desire on the part of our theatrical pro- ducers for act0rs to £° some Shakespearean training D13 i! 5 ?ood kca rf a r:ccd-- ' antidote Perhaps we have keen becoming too strong too rough and tough - - It STARTED ON ITS OWN has been in these last four decades that the American theater has broken from the parent theaters in Europe and started out on its own Up to this period outside of European importations dinohealcalcrations but we are fortunate indeed in our vitality and in the adventurous creative approaches of Joshua Logan Elia Kazan Reuben Mamoulian Harold Clurman and the more recently arrived Joseph! Anthony and Albert Marre In our dramatic theater then our playwrights directors and actors are earnest virile and rich in primitive strength You jray like this kind of theater or may not but whatever you call it vou cannot say that it is a dving the- ater The theater can never while millions of young g j from the Red Cross die struck exhibitionist? insist on writing what they think and act- ing and dancing and singing be- fore a pubic This is a permanent group and they millions more find always and witness back to like sit uho their dancing and listen to their singing While this derire exists in the humsn tart there tull be ' SAFETY HINTS sk larking on the bruit may be all ririU if you don't interfere with the c oinfort of ctlwrs an opm ‘pace for y our If the i e isn’t one horseplay — don’t harass others down quiet were used to harbor legitimate attrac- the minstrel' Read the Classified tions have no legitimate theater Croc Une ol RtfaA — theater whatever today The movies have dubious contributions to IAe’ — --—— — atrical art but at any rate gay supplanted it Now in turn the lusty and certainly American number of movie theaters is deTALENTED DIRECTORS WE ARE PROUD Today however it can be said TV of inroads that our theater has a person We have some amazingly talcreasing due to the of a TO the of distinction and own ented ovn its directors who are helping ality conception gut jn my and to certain a attributes that create in iden national tradition media theater these electronic it our theater Here again we are must be included I believe that tifyIn the light musical theater not rich m subtlety and elegance ANNOUNCE wherever there is an audience we have evolved — without any and a stage or a screen or any deliberate intention that I know — a form that is neither opframe w ithin which actors are of era That straight musilines written by play- cal operettaWenor reading call a it comedy “musical SAT ON A HILLSIDE The power plant will be conMARIETTA Ohio (AP)— The wrights or singing songs written play” MR ADRIAN ROELOFS to the Ohio River key The theater remains despite opening nected to the aluminum reducGood examples of this type are there is theater composers by worn has it of the West in pioneer days is tion many disguises “Show Boat” “Oklahoma!” “Car- plant and rolling mill by a the ALL PROVIDE SHOWS Greece the audience ancient In Your experiencing boom days again ousel” “Bloomer Girl” “Bnga-transmission line sat on a hillside At the foot of All ’’live and electronic media doon” “F i n i a n ’ s Rainbow” For nearly 200 miles in each The Is the new owner plant will be built on a big the hill were steps that ascended require the same talents All are “South Pacific” “The direction from this city in the and King Upper River Valley American in- - new coal mice to be constructed to a stage and upon that stage providing shows — some serious I” and the current “My Fair and manager of the dustries are pouring millions into owned end operated by the Pitts- - actors read lines by playwrights and “The Most Lady” are Happy There good frivolous some Coal1 burffh consolidated Coal Co and vvho adhered riFld conventions industrial development tele- Fella” ' space and shows and bad shows on Thg unities 0 is once ta Mode Cleaners again making will make the first time No librettists or composers in mining and the theater in and vision Masks that observed were action ADRIAN MR ROILOFS work river traffic last year hit any other country are even trying and coal mined directly on the site were used Choruses commented the movies And it seems to me A mammoth 65 million tons to write this kind of musical plav to of good for the on tEe action to clarify theme that the percentage river towns are is used to provide power in spite of the fact that This in the legiti— no is of bad the result and character alumina greater awakening to the roar of bull reduction these are almost all sue-Mr Roelofs Wishes fo Invite All His We no longer write cr present mate theater than it is in the cessful plays dozers and the chatter of riv- of the first refining process — when presented in other to pig aluminum eters plays in this way but that does electronic theater interest the countries audience As for Friends fo Drop in and Visit not mean that the Greek theater Aluminum production com FABRICATING PLANT a purely American are They in its theater heyday as the same In dead the way legitimate Mned with electric and atomic creation Some day they will of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical is inmany people in one season as TV course be imitated With Him power has triggered the industri- Corp is building a 120 million adult life 6f an individualsois and perhaps as to docs could never have played fluenced by his childhood All along the valley dollar aluminum al boom even improved upon by writers fabricating plant to in one night To winding through five states — about 50 miles downstream from cur modern theater bear the now plays and in other lands So producers there audiences marks of the ancient Greeks satisfy these huge Pennsylvania Ohio West Virgin he at Eavensocd on the far however foreign writers' more much employ course of Many plays are deliberate adap- is seem unwilling to approach a V”tU-side of the river PICKUP AND DELIVERY Virginia writers actors ment for Greek many tations from the Eugene Amer-eartpierce the musical sin-with of same And the Aluminum story j Corp Becomes directors scenic designers 'and OR CASH AND CARRY “Mourning moving machines churn up ica a gjant jn he industry will O’Neill’s and high standards of hu- cerity before ever than O’Neill’s technicians an is Electra” example soil untouched by the plow for buj dollas'melt-generation- s man interest as we do over here an 8Q sense is essentially Greek There is bustle cv- tragic EXAMINE OUTPUT on he ohio 18 milcs I doubt if jng pant ESTABLISH CHARACTER any man can write ery where The ancient Greeks had their upstream from Evansville Ind a modern play without falling In our’ bad Those are the main projects plays we MOVING DOWNSTREAM ONE-SA- Y some debt to these ancient bad seasons and their andplays into have also to a establish begun the as did the Elizabethans This American Ruhr once was hut there are many others Since theatrical geniuses character that is our own concentrated in the comparative- - World War II just two of the we inherit and Restoration dramatists The way although not as quite what We keep set states health definitely touched theater’s the the to by Upper we continue to develop a new' and appraise y short strip from Pittsburgh as our musical works apart a light over - Pio — Pennsylvania and Ohio— its to is examine Cleveto output through Youngstown increasingly varied theater few decades One season will tell Still behind England and Europe land Now it is moving down- have each received more than a in theatrical neverMOST RADICAL CHANGES stream at accelerated pace and billion dollars worth of plant nothing one way or the other theless more stjle we arewhen jou it courageous Ohio’s industrial The most radical changes of I have been working in the the- comes to there are indications it will go construction 2211 Wosh Eivd substance Dial 6318 40 mile has about Wash Sivd ater for in this per to During square down have been years river the all expansion all the way wrought We more write Ph been tops for the nation rugged plays Cincinnati century with the development of those years I don't think the The boom has hit the valley electronic science Many who are American theater has done so over here We perform them more The reasons are easy to see Aluminum manufacture consumes like rain after a long drought predicting the demise of the the- - badly Leaving out workers who had been ater are excluding from their were merely successful in their electricity at p greedy rate — nine For years river’towns kilowatt hours produce a single losing population as young peo- considering the electronic time — I mean men like David d sought jobs elsewhere Now media of radio television and the Belasco Flo Ziegfeld Avery pound of the light white metal ple new develare — to job beds and coal nation’s opportunities movies The limiting myself biggest If you accept this limited con- men who have written plays that are in this area and coal is a oping daily and outlanders are into the area must for the production pouring ception you must then admit most have become part of our national Loss of coal markets and the certainly that the theater if not theatrical literature I give you In addition the of electricity river provides cheap transporta- mechanization of mines had dying is certainly shrinking Eugene O’Neill Sidney Howard combined to throw miners out of Twenty years ago New York had Robert Sherwood Maxwell Antion work But the ravenous furnaces twice as many legitimate theaters derson Marc Connelly Lindsay Aluminuum isn’t the only of the new power plants are gob- as it has now Many cities which and Crouse George Kelly George in the industry locating new boom area The Atomic En- bling up thousands of tons daily ergy Commission’s billion dollar and crying for more Coal progaseous diffusion plant north of duction has boomed with the inPortsmouth has two of the dustrial boom and miners are finding plenty of work again Biworld's biggest electric plants working for it tuminous production for the t class first time in five years is exboth in the pected to top the 500 million ton LEAPING INTO RACE figure Two companies are leaping into BILLION POUNDS A YEAR the valley’s aluminum producing Under war stress aluminum race with a 120 million dollar investment each Another is build- production was pushed to a biling an 80 million dollar smelt- lion pounds a year by 1945 Now 4ri: it is about three billion pounds ing plant yi For its 120 million dollar in- - and In another four years is ex vestment the Olin Mathieson pocted to go to 60 billion much Corp contemplates the world’s of it from the Ohio Valley Alufirst fully integrated aluminum minum plants will draw more industries deplant The firm is spending 90 and moreon allied them for raw and million for an aluminum plant pendent d1 l at Clarington about 50 miles up- semifinished materials Meanwhile there is pressure to stream from here and 30 milt lion for a pow- speed up modernization of the er plant at Cresap Bottom W Va river’s lock system under a bila little farther upstream on the lion dollar program by the federal of side river the government opposite twins Allen (left) and Barry Jones tempt the Blondini vith their ice cream cones Blcndini “White the Yogi” plans to spend two months in the glass tomb buried under two tons of sand He will exist on only -glucose water The endurance feat is being attempted at Brighton England where Blondini once chalked up 12 hours on bed of nails Ten-year-ol- d glass-coffine- d i Things Booming Again Along the Old Ohio high-tensio- 'n5 i j ' ’ 1 n I j long-sleepin- g 1 ' wt tE7Tk y h SERVICE non-music- LA MODE CLEANERS 76 v Hop-woo- low-co- st power-hu- ngry steam-powere- d A- 2152 - 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