| Show Theater Delights Audience With r Flying Gerardos' By BILL JOHNSTON Take a highly amusing sprinkle it liberally with a cast of experienced add a touch of expert direction and the net result is always an entertaining and pleasant Such was the case at Kingsbury hall Friday and Saturday nights when the University of Utah Summer theater presented Flying by J. Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Capably directed by Ross D. visiting director from Purdue the delightful comedy dealing with the battle of brains moved at a rapid pace from the opening The background for the piece was the home of Doc an aged circus The eight flying a circus trapeze bounded the set with reckless trying desperately to avoid the ill effects of intellectual intrusion in the person of William a graduate student at Columbia When the bookish Wentworth decides to become a physical giant instead of an the action came at a terrific An expert cast romped through the play as if they enjoyed what they were blowsy Mamma the self-appointed manager of the played to the hilt by Bette Smith was the dominant character whenever she was on Offering a perfect contrast to the loud-talking M a m m a was Albert Mitchell as the scholarly His performance of the retiring William left nothing to be Vern experienced University theater handled the difficult part of Doc Vermillion with unusual H i s home-spun speeches were certain Completing the picture were the eight flying led by Mary Ethel Eccles as the trapeze star in quest of an Miss a beautiful and talented once again demonstrated her many talents in an appealing The rest of the linked by dependence rather than blood was played with the necessary gusto by Roy Peggy Don JoAnne Diane Delbert Sacos and Paul a familiar face to University stole the show time and time again as the Greek member of the whose main action consisted of a silly Sereta Jones and Wlliam Peterson were believable as the uppity Wentworth and the curious The entire staff of the University Summer theater is to be congratulated for offering a highly entertaining and amusing |
