THE MICHIGAN DAILY N" AY Dou e Feature' ToOpen 10th Repertory Players' Season Windt DirectsJ Group Of Eight Summer Playsl 'High Tor' To Alternate With 'Arms And The Man' First Week (Continued from Page 1) John Monks, Jr., and Y ed F. Finkle-I hoffe were once "brother rats" is the scene of action which discloses the more farcial side of military school life. "Shoemakers' Holiday" will bring two prominent actors to the Mendel- ssohn stages from the Mercury Theatre production of the play. Whit- ford Kane will play his original role of Simon Eyre, and Hiram Sherman will enact Firk. The play represents Thomas Dekker on the side of facile humor and bright dramatic realism displaying the social unrest of every- day Elizabethan life: "Idiot's Delight," the 1936 Pulitzer prize winner by Robert Sherwood, has beeh chosen for, the fifth presenta- ,tion. Sherwood's story brings together a song and dance vaudevillian with his chorus of "ten dancing, prancing1 ingenues," a munitions maker, a fake Russian heiress, a German scientist, and a French radical. Their weekend of frivolity in a dis- tant Swiss chalet is sharply disturbed when the next war bursts about them. Their more serious political and so- cial viewpoints are stimulated, build- ing to a highly dramatic conflict. The play' ends in the darkened hotel lobby as Harry Van, the impressario, ----4f 'high.Tor,' Critics' Circle A ward Winner, To Play Again Mr. Sherman Tells Story Of Mr. Sherman1 Young Actor To Recreate Firk' In Shoemaker's Holiday' (EDITOR'S NOTE: Hiram Sherman, who was with the Michigan Repertory Players during the summer of 1936 and is coming back for a short engage- ment this summer. He will portray j his original role of Firk in the Players version of "Shoemakers' Holiday." But no one can tell Sherman's story but Sherman.) By HIRAM SHERMAN "Shoemaker'sAHoliday" at the Mendelssohn will be a real shoemak- er's holiday for me. Until now, it's been like this: nine performances a week, a few rehearsals here, and a conference or so there. I've only had time to be thankful I'm working and utter a sort of prayer that it may continue. Playing repertory in the Mercury Theatre has a great advantage be- sides allowing a diversity of parts. It keeps me from thinking. This is a major blessing, for an actor who has time to think of doing something be- sides the job at hand, often ceases to act when it is most needed. In my case it all started about a dozen years ago. I made my debut in a little theatre in . . . well, Spring- THE PLAYS High Tor, by Maxwell Anderson. Arms and The Man, by George 1 Bernard Shaw. Brother Rat, by John Monks, Jr., and Fred F. Finklehoffe. Shoemakers' Holiday, by Thom- as Dekker. Idiot's Delight, by Robert Sher- wood. Kind Lady, by Edward Cho- dorov. The White-headed Boy, by Len- nox Robinson. The Vagabond King, by Justin Hartley McCarthy. field, Illinois, to ue exact, playing the title role in a revival of Henry Irving's great standby, "The Bells." I sat offstage, my lap a mass of as- sorted jangles. I worked a baby's rattle when the bells were far away and worked up to a small Liberty bell as the drama came nearer. After that, my future assured, I was packed off to the University of Illinois for a higher education in the liberal arts. Unfortunately, this excluded drama but included military training. I didn't fit the R.O.T.C. uniform, and the outfitting department re- fused to alter the garments to my specifications. After higher education and I had parted company, the call of back- stage led me to the Goodman The-' atre, Chicago. It was an awful shock to discover that we didn't .observe the Christmas holidays, that we gave extra matinees instead, that easter vacations meant nothing but more rehearsals, and that you didn't go home for New Years'. Whitford Kane, who was a fellow member at the Goodman, was a good angel on more than one occasion. When he needed an assistant in his teaching enterprises I filled the job' And when I think of what we taught the neophytes during the Michigan Repertory Season, summer of 1936, I shudder at returning to view the results. Finally, the Federal Theatre came into being and I had the opportunity of working with Orson Welles, whom I had met whene he was in charge of entertaining the kiddies at Marshall Fields. Work came in "Dr. Faustus," on the radio, and in "The Cradle Will Rock." Net rehearsal Mendelssohn. 11 SOCIAL DANCING Toe, tap acrobatics. Garden Studio. Wuerth 2nd Floor. Open eves. I 'I A scene from Maxwell Anderson's modern fantasy, with Messrs. Biggs and Skimmerhorn, Van, Lise, and steaimshovel, all present on the Tor. I ENJOY REAL . Italian Spaghetti 25c DINNERS . . . 40c to $1.25 1602 Packard Rd. at Marion St. Ypsilanti SENIOR CAPS and GOWNS LAST CHANCE! Order your Caps and Gowns now. We fur- nish all new outfits of the bet- ter quality and made according to intercollegiate standards. ORDER NOW plays a piano accompaniment to a nearby bombardment. "Kind Lady," adapted by Edward Chodorov from Hugh Walpole's fa- mous short story, "The Silver Mask.." is an English drawing rooi comedy- mnystery. It is after the wealthy kind lady invites a beggar into her fashionable London home, feeds him, and offers him a. job, that the comedy reaches its height. But when the beggar moves in with a large family and a host of rambling friends, the mystery mounts to unbelievable excitement. In the preface to "The Whitehead-I I Boy," which follows on the Play- ers schedule, Lennox Robinson, the Irih playwright, has written a brief figurative comment: "I have conceived the idea of dis- playing the British Empire in the Iform of a large overgrown family, with Ireland the youngest child." The grand finale to the 10th Anni- versary Season wild take place with a full week's run of 'The Vagabond King,' in which the Repertory Play- ers will combine with the School of Music. GEO.JIMOE SPORT SHOPS , I For the SWEET GIRL GRADUATE GIFT n LINENS 5 handkerchiefs is guest to els lavcheon sets ., Al REASONABLE PRIC ES GAGE LINEN SHOP 10 NICKELS ARCADE Whitford Kane Returns Again For Summer Will Direct Shoemaker's Holiday,' Whiteheaded Boy' For Season Whitford Kane, one of the most eminent character actors of the Eng- lish and American stage, will return to the MendelssohnTheatre this summer as guest director of the Michigan Repertory Players for their 10th Anniversary Season. Mr. Kane will play in and direct "Shoemakers' Holiday," in which he was featured this season by the Mer- cury Theatre, New York, and "The Whiteheaded Boy," by Lennox Rob- inson. Hirai Sherman, young actor who recently won acclaim forhis work in the Mercury production of "Shoe- makers' Holiday," will accompany Mr. Kane to Ann Arbor especially for the Players' presentation. Remembered for his season here in the summer of- 1936 when he di- rected "The Pigeon" (Which John Galsworthy wrote for him) and "Juno and The Paycock," Mr. Kane is a teacher as well as a director of drama. He has taught at the Uni- versities of New York, Iowa, Syra- cuse, Washington besides Michigan. Some very definite ideas about dra- matic technique, culled from his long experience in theatres in England and America, are what Mr. Kane im- parts. He believes sincerely in good, honest emotion. "It's a lot better," he says, "for a young actor to overact than to underact." 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