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Show AfTee Frost, (Pamela North In C's "Mr. and Mrs. North") : "I'd like to play the title role in the answermethisi) QUESTION What part would you like most to play? PLACE NBC Studios, Radio City, New York Lucille Wall, (title player In the NBC serial, -"Portia Faces Life"): "Lady Macbeth! opera 'Madame Butterfly.' The dramatic possibilities possi-bilities of it are so. 'wonderful. I suppose phyBt cally I seem un-suited un-suited for it, but I did sing two acts of it in a student recital, and I'm still studyingsinging. i'f I si That- part isf a great - challenge and test for a dramaticactress. There has been almost as great a variety of Interpretations In-terpretations o that part as there have been interpreters. Of course, I have my own ideas as 'Butterfly's' Teal Alice Frost appeal tQ me Js the delicacy and helplessness of the character." Edward Everett Horton, (NBC jomedian) : "I have always had a se cret wish to play Mr. Golightly, a role created by Joseph Jefferson in 'Lend Me Five Shillings.' I saw the playet .when I was a boy, and it was one of my earli-pst earli-pst introductions to the captivating captiva-ting world of the theater. Mr. to how I think ,,, ,. tne roIe should Lucille Wall gQ rfl ,ike tQ dQ it as a very feminine character. It's not always done that way." Ezra Stone (Henry Aldrich-1n NBC's "Aldrich Family") : "I'd like to play Shylock Golightly was a wonderful bit of Edward whimsy as play- Everett Horton ed by one of America's best-loved comedians. I should someday like to try it." in'TheMerchant of Venice.' Shakespeare's treatment of Shyloclc seems to me to typiiy the character of in oppressed but talented people. And it is one of the few well-rounded well-rounded characterizations char-acterizations in L classical literature litera-ture in that it is . ., Ezra Stone neither all vil- lian nor all hero. My second choice would b3 the young vagabond role in Dan Totheroh's 'Wild Birds'." j |
