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Show l1 P" , Gives Advice to Young Actress GBS Plays Own Pygmalion! To a Young Actress: the Letters of Bernard Shaw to Molly Tompkins, edited by Peter Tompkins. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, W13 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, Febniary 12, 1961 Writer Rides Popular Wave; To Lecture on Social" Woes Plot Spots Puizling Extra Guest f Still, riding high on the crest of popularity of his third book, The Waste Makers, journalist and social critic Vance Packard will lecture Monday at 8:30 pm. In Assembly Hall on Temple Square, sponsored by Brigham Young Universitys Adult Education Center In Salt Lake City. Earlier, Mrs. Packard will speak Monday at 10 am. In George Albert Smith Field-hous- e on Brigham Young University campus in Provo. Mr. Packard, who made household words of hidden 1 and status persuaders seekers" is an observer of the current American scene who sees an an expert in economic matters, Sen. Paul Douglas of American life which he rails "consumerwill speak Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. on Our Trouble Spots." ism. According to Mr. Packard, the American people are now more than they Vance Packard ... to presen can consume; the manufacviews on society on Monday An authority on economic Sen. Paul Douglas (D 111 ) he says, are forced turers, i will speak Wednesday at 8:15 was matters, Sen. Douglas to make us disto MA pm. in Kingsbury Hall on professor of economics Rt cardstrategies His sociological works, what we buy before University of Utah campus. have outlived their Packard says, require masUniversity of Chicago beproducts Trouble Our will be Topic sive amounts of research. fore he was elected to the usefulness. Spots. U.S. Senate. He is author For The Hidden Persuadis Mr. Packard Currently, ers he drew on more than of The Theory of Wages of planning further studies and Real Wages in the 1,500 sources. American society and writUnited States." arHe published two books His for magazines. ing MaU.S. the in in ticles have been published Enlisting previous to The Hidden "Animal I.Q ; the rine Corps in 1942 as a prithe Atlantic Monthly, Look, vate at the age of 50, he Readers Digest, the New Human Side of Animals," rose to the grade of lieuYork Times Magazine and and How to Pick a Mate; tenant colonel. Guide to a Happy Marriage." others. Dr. Joseph Salvatore, Freud; Dr. Claude J. Burtenshaw, diThe Paris Beauty Salon Second Floor rector of the college, will preside as summation Call ELgin speaker. The completion of the new Geary theater marks an end of an eight year effort, cost of $365,000 and intensive effort. The building program was inaugurated eight years ago by Dr. Aaron E. Jones, former college director, and the completion under Burtenshaw Elmo Geary, speech instructor for whom the building is named, spent many hours visiting other structures and designing plans for superior staging, lighting and classroom facil ities In the building. Mr. Geary, on temporary leave from his college post due to illness, died at his home in Huntington, Emery County, Friday afternoon (see Page C15). save, save, save best-sellin- g The Plot," by Egon Doubleday A Co, Garden City, New York, Hob-tovsk- $150. New York, $8.50. Jan Bares, a Czechoslovak novelist living in New York, gives a party celebrating his 47th birthday. Eight old, close friends attend a very 'mixed lot And visible apparently to Bares Is a ninth guest an old enemy. The word apparently is .used advisedly for nothing is clear In this strange but fascinating novel, As the plot develops, the unreality increases, though in the end everything is resolved. If the reader is still puzzled, he can take comfort in the fact that, despite all its dialogue, the novel is fairly pleasant reading. The Plot has something of Kafka about it, though it isnt Kafkaesque. Indeed, the most valid criticism is that it belongs in a category of "neither, nor." T. L. It is very prudent to be fascinated and maddened by old men with wives and a lot of work to do," George Bernard Shaw wrote to Molly Tompkins, as the poor old creatures like it and are harmless. But GBS was never very harmless, no matter what he tried to pretend: this collection of crusty and affectionate letters show the man behind the Shavian mask, the veteran actor who played the character role of GBS for so many years. Learns to Tango His 1 e 1 1 er s to Dear Dear Mollytompkins, "Bell Mollissima, Molly," Molli-molDear Molllkins, show him in all kinds li of unshavian situations: suffering from writers cramp, learning to tango (it appeared to me to be the only dance left that was a dance), struggling when a fan tries to kiss him, fearing that his work is becoming mere senile drivel, and deeply moved but "not in the least grieved by the death of his wife. Molly Tompkins was a young woman when she and her husband Laurence left America for England on a Shavian pilgrimage. She was to become an actress of Shaws works; her sculptor-husbanwas to design a theater devoted to Shaw performances. Filled With Advice Shaw was taken with Molly Tompkins at once (as were a goodly number of other men) and set about d George Bernard Shaw, crusty old socialist and playwright, revealed another side in his letters to a young actress. teaching her how to be an actress. He played Henry Higgens' to her Eliza Doolittle. His first letters were filled with advice on acting: then on what to see and where to go in Europe: then how to choose a house, how to keep or lose a husband, how to rear a child, how to get law along with a daughter-iand the proper schooling of grandchildren. n Shaws pungent and sound advice is reproduced in his own spidery handwriting or blotted typewriting for the most part, adding a quality to the reading. One misses Mollys side of the correspondence, because despite Shaws chid ings ("Mollytompkins: You are an idiot,) she shines through as a charming and gracious irrepressible young woman. Senator Slates U. of U. Talk Carbon Readies Celebration For Completion of Theater Special to The Tribune An all faculty PRICE program of Carbon College will be presented Wednesday at 8.30 pm. to mark the opening of the new Geary theater on the campus. Great ideas of the western World will be discussed by the educators and include the l, following: Dr. Joseph William Shakespeare: Cat-mul- Don McDonald, Darwins cash in on our midwinter beauty theory of Evolution; Charles Petersen, Abraham Lincoln; Orson Tew, Johann Bach; Utah Theater Week Threepenny Opera-Majc- es Pretty Penny SALE Bv Richard O. Martin stnctly numerical method of comparison, it would the longest running musical production in New that appear By a on our special (Beit Se(L York is not on Broadway. all-- ? Oklahoma, the Broadway musical that broke the 1 time record, played 2,248 perform ' Fiction ances in an uninterrupted run of HAWAII James Mlchener ADVISE AND CONSENT Alover five years. len Drurv on is the a But challenger THE DEAN S WATCH Elizabeth Goudge scene. The off Broadway producTO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD tion of Threepenny Opera, on Harper Lee conits 2,249th Helen Feb 4, observed DECISION AT DELPHI 299-seMaclnnei secutive performance at the AMBITION LOVELY THE De Lys Theater. And its still Mary Ellen Chase spokes-man'fo- r WASERMONS going strongly, with one TER John O Hara the production stating it THE LAST OF THE JLST may run for years yet. Andre Schwarz Bart MISTRESS OF MELLYN VicThere are some differences, toria Holt however, between the runs of THE LISTENER Taylor Caldand Threepenny Oklahoma well POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE In its five year run, Opera George Fosgate, left, and Pat Hunt put the Noel Coward to some three Oklahoma" Thursday. played Golden opening Fleecing, for scene on Martin THE LEOPARD touches Mr. Giuseppe dl dollars. 10 million over Lampedusa million persons and giossed an estimated n The off Broadway show has played to of a ou tune to the THE RISE AND FALL OF till the tinkled as has and 650 000 persons THE THIRD REICH William L three million dollars, in comparison Shirer, THE WASTE MAKERS Vance Misses Heavyweight Ranks Packard of the ranks the not in ' still is BORN FREE Toy Adamson So Thi eepenny Opeia BARUCH THE PUBLIC its lengthy run is made Broadway "heavyweights although in a theater in machine YFARS Bernard M Baruch getts This calculating y this fact, particular remarkable by no less VANITY FAIR Ed by Cleveperformance. that forms the is calculated to calculate land Armory and Frederick matter is not the bland, innocuous material successes. are althe for Sets not but spoof almost everything musical Brandlee most completed under the grist of the majority of Broadways a wonder machine even THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE And another thing "Threepenny Opera boasts a big Fosof LINES Jean Kerr George the could supervision laughs compute in Mack the Knife" has proven its popularity THE AMERICAN HERITAGE hit tune gate, technical director of in Playbox Theatres upPICTURE HISTORY OF THE assisted Pat recording by several top vocalists the by Golden The Playbox, CIVIL WAR Bruce Catton and coming comedy, However, a third challenger, this one a Broadway due to open Hunt editors of American Heritage Fleecing, is My Fair run. It all time an confor is high run will The THE POLITICS OF UPHEAVmusical, heading plays Thursday at 8 30 p m. on 2,248 the performance reach AL Arthur Schleslnger Jr to and tinue Saturday Lady, which is expected of Utah Friday campus. University WHO KILLED SOCIETY T and Feb. 24 and 25. All permark next August The machine enters the Cleveland Amory 8.30 be at will formances ENJOY' ENJOY' BYU Offers Anne Frank Harry picture as a marvelous mechp m. anism that can figure the The Dial v of Anne Frank will be the mid February Dr. odds on almost anything. offering at Brigham Young University, according to DeAnd when the crew of a Drama and of the I la i old I. Hansen, chahman Speech nuclear powered ship that HAMMOND ORGAN . . . partment sports the machine goes The show will run Wednesday through Saturday nights ashore for leave to a gam In Joseph Smith Auditorium, with Dr Preston Gledhill as bling casino, the odds are director. pretty high that something's which visited US Blithe Spirit, FREE BYU s tour show, going to happen. this off is last Pacific again the year, in posts And with military happen it does, time for bookings in Idaho, Montana and Canada fireworks provided by a Monin two in Idaho, five bookings (The show will play cast directed by Ralph Mar- (MW tana and in Lethbridge. Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. IC fun to All but two of the original cast members will make the learn . . . Cast Tryouts Open tour. to Me easy Kiss play And the cast for the March musical at BYU, For Student Prince Kate," is ready to go into rehearsal. The musical is schedfor "The Student Tryouts Easy to own uled for March 15 18. Prince, Sigmund Romberg Dr. Ilansen announces that preparations are being made Requires no musical to be produced Aug. for the school's first annual Fine Arts Festival this spring,, 22 and 23 by Salt Lake tuning about which more will appear here later. Has vast tonal County Recreation Dept, U. Books Two Shows will be open Thursday at range There are two items of interest on the University of Rosecrest School, 2400 East Instant response 2935 South, from 7 to 7.30 Utah Theatre calendar this week. "The Golden Fleecing 7.30 to for which dance run week a for parts, p.m. at the split Thursday will open Playbox Extremely durable 10 p.m. for lead parts and continues through Saturday then jumps to Feb. 24 and 25. The only Organ with thousands of chorus, according to Winnie And the third Young Peoples Theatre production, tone combinations a 7:30 p.m. Erickson, director. Mickey McAtees Misadventures, will play There will be five woman at Lessons! with Free Saturday performances night Friday performance leads, 15 male leads, Mrs. 10 am., 2 pm., and 4 p.m. as low as $30 per month Payments The main said. Erickson . double-castThe latter play is an original script, written by Allen leads will be Prices start at $920 Cook, a graduate student in theater at the U. of U. Also needed are stage hands Open Mr. Cook has written several plays Including one serious and scenery and costume deRENTAL LESSON PLAN 'Til drama still under construction concerning the problem signers. Anyone who cant 9 p.m. attend the Thursday tryouts of racial segregation. But the childrens play is his only Utt you kp on oxdflng Hammond Orgon in your horn for Mon. can call Mrs. Erickson at work, as yet, to see production. 00 month and rocoiva 6 private !$- for special HU & Mr. Cook calls playwrighting for children A chalail for only $on she said. He reports that Mickey McFrl. lenge of a different sort Atees Misadventures is an attempt "to make palatable for RAY AVIRITT, Owntr the children some kind of historical feeling. It has several scenes set in different historical periods. Each is visited by a typical American boy who is fed up with things in the world he lives in, causing him to venture into history." IN 3244 South State St. Mr. Cook, in addition to doing the play script, will also SERVICE RENTALS INSTRUCTION appear in his own show. He has acted in half a dozen or SALES , more childrens shows during the past few years at the permanent You'll liht our Rvlon manicures Mi$ Cloirolt Hair Color lath, and OgiUtt I AND--60D- Sttrt htalthyhgir preparation!. is- last-minut- e Its Calculating I Calculator-H- All th Odds Figured sc the-roun- NO OBLIGATION! 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