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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1947)
The Man Who Came to Dinner' Impudently Portrays Woolcott ■ Alexander Woolcott, so the story , goes, once spent a night with the George S.Kaufman’s and they never 1 ' foi got it. It must have been quite an evening because out of it, and their frienship with the late Town Crier cf Radio fame developed one of Kaufman and Hart's most success ful plays. pf In fact, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” to be presented October 24,25,29,30,31 and November 1 by the University Theatre, makes no pretense of disguising its main character, Sheridan Whiteside, who is the counter part of Woolcott. The Kalstaffian wit was not in the least offended by this impudent characterization of himself and would even have played the lead if he hadn’t been committed to a lecture tour. HAPPY CHOICE The authors made a happy choice for the lead, however, in Dr. Edgar Montillon Woolley, better known to movie audiences at Monty Wool ley. The professor was formerly as sociated with the drama society at Yale. With his beard fairly crack ling with sarcasm, Woolley was the center of action, emanating violant activity in the play. He repeated the role in the screen ver sion which necessarily lost some of its sting because of foreboding cenosrs. Kaufman, called “the gloomy dean of Broadway wits,” acted as director of the play as well, as co author. He rehearsed the acts back ward so that each one could be seen as a compact unit that was self explanatory of what action had pro ceeded it Six Months to Write It took six months to write the play and by the time it was finish ed they had the actors in mind and the opening date set. Both suffer acutely on opening nights and hate opening night audiences, although no other authors are held in higher esteem by New Y«rkers who con sider opening night performances as essential to their prestige. Not poetic writers, Kaufman and Hart use the plot as a frame for fire works- Romantic scenes are j inserted as dutiful gestures midst j a fury of gags, bitter and speedy ! attacks on stupidity, and loud hu- 1 mor. As final maganimous gesture, j the authors dedicated their master- , piece of invective “To Alexander j Woolcott—for reasons which are j nobody's business.” I —-— Spanish Teachers To Honor Author | Teachers and friends of Spanish j have been invited to a luncheon at j the faculty club today honoring the | 400th anniversary of Cervantes, ' Spanish author of Don Quixote. DOROTHY SHAY, “The Park Avenue Hillbilly,” sings the bal lads that made her famous, on “Spotlight Revue,” the big, new Spike Jones musical variety and comedy show over CBS eac^ Fr> day night. —--i Approximately 50 people will at tend the luncheon which has been arranged by Dr. Anibal Vargas Baron, assistant professor of Ro mance language and president of the American Association of Teach ers of Spaniish. Pianist's Recital Gets Re-schedule Originally scheduled for Octo ber 24, the recital of George Hop kins, professor of piano, has been re-scheduled for October 23. French-American music will pre dominate throughout the program, with Ravel’s “Bolero" and a “Con cert Paraphrase on Gershwin Themes" highlighting the perform ance. Both of these numbers will be presented as transcriptions by Professor Hopkins. Other compo sitions by Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Elmerco, Bloch, Soro, Milhaud, and Villa-Lobos will also be featured. The program sponsored jointly by Phi Mu Alpha, men’s music honorary, and the music school, will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the music school auditorium. Oregana Slates Phi Psi Pictures Individual house pictures for the 1948 Oregana are being taken by Kennell-Ellis studio according to the following schedule: October 11: Phi Kappa Psi. October 13: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi. October 14: Alpha hall, Alpha Gamma Delta. October 15: Alpha Omicron Pi. Alpha Phi. 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