THE MITCHIGAN DAILY PAGE Bepertory Players Schedule Eight Dramas For Summer Seaso i,, -- Mr. Sherman Gives The Inside Dope On Mr. Sherman's Career A - oaCompay Stirts 1t h eason Fri'n.,Thursday August 11-T- ues ny___day, August 16. An Actor's Odyssey Which: Proves The Thespian's Life No Bed Of Roses By Hiram Sherman (EDITOR'S NOTE: Hiram Sherman, who was with the Michigan RepertorysPlayers dur- ing the summer of 1936, isire- turning for a short engagement this summer. He will portray his original role of Firk in the Players' version of "The Shoe- makers' Holiday." But no one can tell Sherman's story but Sherman). If all must be told I feel it best to start with the present. Not that econsider it the zenith of an incon- sequenial career, but for the mom- ent it is much the busiest. With nine performances -a week, and a few re- hearsals here and a conference or so there, I have only time to be thank- ful I'm working and utter a short prayer that it, may continue. Play- ing repertory, such as "Julius Caesar" and "The Shoemakers' Holiday" with The Mercury Theatre has a great advantage besides allowing a diver- sity of parts . . . it keeps mie from thinking. That is a major blessing, for an actor who is given .time to think of something besides 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- field, Ill., to be exact . . . playing the title role in a revival of Henry Irv- ing's great standby "The Bells." I sat offstage, my lap a mass of as- sorted jangles, and shook a baby's rattle when the bells were far away, and worked up to a small Liberty Bell as the drama came nearer. Somehow I got to Chicago and the Goodman Theatre Repertory Com- pany. I cannot truthfully say the call of the backstage led me there ... it seemed the easiest thing to do at the time. Hardy young men who would stay up all night rehearsing offstage cries and onstage roisterers were in demand, and I fitted the qualifications. I suppose it was at this time that I decided if I were ever going to do anything for the rest of my life it might as well be the stage. The moment I realized that as a pro- fessional actor I was expected to give 24 hours out of every day to my job I gave in. Like the Mercury, the Goodman Theatre didn't give me time to. So I went to New York. The next years embraced a variety of jobs.r . mostly non-profit mak- ing enterprises. Finally the Federal Theatre came into being, and there I again met Orson Welles, whom I had known for a good many years . . and the years in which I'd had far too much time to think were blotted out. More work . . . work in "Dr. Faustus" and on the radio and in "The Cradle Will Rock." After the last named we were no longer with the Federal Theatre, but happily enough the Mercury had been estab- lished. There wasn't time to think much about it. The producers plunged ahead. and I obediently fol- lowed. "Caesar" last November and "The Shoemokers' Holiday" in Jan- uary, and I'm still working. Rehearsal tomorrow. "High Tor" by Maxwell Anderson. Wednesday, June 29-Thursday, June 30. "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw. Monday, June 27--- Tuesday, June 28, Friday, July 1- Saturday, July 2. "Brother Rat" by John Monks, Jr.: and Fred Finklehoffe. Wednesday, July 6-Saturday. July 9., "The Shoemakers' Holiday" byI Thomas Dekker. Wednesday, July 13-Saturday, July 16. "Idiot's Delight" by Robert Sher-j \vood. Wednesday. July 20--Satur- day. July 23. "Kind Lady" by Edward Chodorov. Wednesday, July 27-Saturday, July{ 30. "The Whiteheaded Boy" by Len- nox Robinson. Wednesday, August 3--Saturday, August 6. TRAIN PASSENGERS INJURED SEATTLE. 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Brooks Atkinson has called it "the gustiest fantasy of the American theatre." ARMS AND THE MAN * In a charming satirical moment, George Bernard Shaw laughs away the pompous notion that a uniform makes a hero. Delightfully fresh and buoyant, it is Shaw in his best humour. BROTHER RAT ! The Players present the first non-professional per- formance of George Abbott's comedy success in which the vagaries of undergraduate life at Virginia Military Academy are thoroughly investigated. -From Stage BROTHER RAT, New York Production Monday, June 27 Tuesday, June 28 Wednesday, June 29 Thursday, June 30 H igh Tor Friday, July 1 Saturday, July 2 Arm sand the Man KIND LADY 0 Edward Chodorov has done a keenly penetrating adap- tion of Hugh Walpole's "The Silver Masque." As sound dramatically as psychologically, KIND LADY is a dis- tinguished and exciting mystery play. THE WH ITEH EADED BOY . In this typically Irish comedy, Lennox Robinson tells the beguiling story of a family's sacrifices for its persisa- ently wayward whiteheaded boy. Pithy, humorous, and altogether captivating is this exposition of the trusting and hopeful Irish heart. THE VAGABOND KING 4 Rudolph Friml's score and J. Huntley McCarthy's book are happily joined in this .colorful musical telling of an episode in the life of dashing Francois Villon.. . vagabond and king. Presented as the Grand Finale to the Tenth Anniversary Season in association with the School of Music and the University Symphony Orchestra. lOT'S DELIGHT a A Broadway master of ceremonies, his "Les Blondes," munitions maker, a fake Russian heiress, and a French radical come into dramatic conflict when war ursts about the Swiss chalet in which they are imme- iately confined. Brilliantly devised, Robert Sher- < di I :,rr:. .c: <..:3 v . ; e e.