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STAGE WHISPER
B, HELEN CARRM

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With the final presentation o
"Private Lives" last Saturday night
the Robert Henderson Dramatic
Festival came to a close, folded its
flats and departed for Detroit
making way for the summer Re-
pertory Group which will open its
season tomorrow night with Philip
Barry's "Paris Bound."
"Paris Bound" is delightful -
with an anticipatory glance at our
esteemed dramatic critic - and
should start off the summer season
schedule of seven plays with a pro-
nounced bang (pronounced bang)
Director Windt and his cast of 10
have been p-e-r-s-p-i-r-i-n-g (I'm
spelling it so little Paulie won't
be offended) daily for the past two
weeks getting the show into its
present polished form, and if you
will stop and reflect upon the large
amount of heat that has flooded
Ann Arbor lately, you'll realize that
rehearsing a difficult play hasn't
been any Girls' Endeavor Society
picnic.
Rehearsals have been held in the
Laboratory Theatre, which is a sort
of cross between a blast furnace
and a cafeteria kitchen these days.
Last Saturday the entire cast was
driven to the basement by the ex-
traordinary heat, and lines and
business were worked on while
harrassed stage hands scurried out
for iced drinks and favorable wea-
ther reports. They brought back
the drinks but got nothing from
the weather man except "For Low-
er Michigan: Slowly rising temper-
atures and you ought to know bet-
ter than rehearse during this wea-
ther." (One of the stage hands
never did come back and is thought
to have joined Sir Hubert Wilkins'

f Polar expedition).
, Harry Allen, besides playing the
c male lead, designed the sets for
s "Paris Bound"-and they're grand,
if you must know. Eugene Chapel
- will play opposite Allen. Others in
s the cast include Edward Fitzger-
ald, Min Powers, Mildred Todd,
Kathryn Kratz, Paul Showers, and
William Butler.
"Paris Bound" will be followed
by Moliere's "Don Juan," work on
which has already been started.
- This in turn will be followed by
. Ferenc Molnar's "Lilliom;" "Love
and Chance" by Marivaux; "Ali-
son's House," Susan Glaspel's Pu-
litzer Prize play; W. Somerset
Maughan's "The Circle;" and an
original play by Thomas Wood Ste-
vens and William Byron, "I Con-
fess." (All at different times, of
course, if the punctuation and
quotes confused you).
The productions will be given at
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
and will be directed by Thomas
Wood Stevens and M. Jean Mer-
cier, visiting directors. Director
Stevens was one of the judges for
the play division of the Avery Hop-
wood contests, and Director Mer-
cier is from Seattle's Cornish
School. (All this you have proba-
bly read before here and there, but
there is nothing like repetition for
emphasis).
Director Windt has been besieged
by Saturday's influx of summer
students demanding to know what
classes are what and should they
sign up for them. From where I
sit it looks as though the next
eight weeks will be busy ones from
a dramatic point of view, and we-
hope-you-like it.

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