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...ANTA's auditioning left much to be desired. Benny Goodman was chosen as the first jazzman to tour Russia when even the Russians knew he was strictly otstaly.* Then last year, the Schola Cantorum from the University of Arkansas was refused traveling money; the choir raised its own expenses and went off to win first prize in the Polyphonic Competition in Italy and was invited to the White House on its return. Senator J. William Fulbright promoted the cultural exchange program in the first place; and since the Schola Cantorum comes from the heart of Fulbright country...
...Hugh Leonard's Stephen D., an adaptation-successful in London-of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, will open in late autumn. Bertolt Brecht's Arturo Ui, which parodies the rise of Hitler, stars Christopher Plummer (Nov. 4). The ANTA-Washington Square Theater, preparing to become the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, will present Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards Jr. (Jan. 23). The ANTA group will also do Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions, directed...
...centered in the group's choice of plays when it planned a five-city Latin American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift...
...sentimental occasions go, this one was only slightly more nostalgic than a session in night court. To honor the 50th anniversary in the theater of Actress Peggy Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks...
Explained Swire with the wistfulness of all fallen angels: "We wanted to see ANTA get out from under the debt load of the mortgage. If we had had a success like The Music Man, which The Conquering Hero closely resembles . . ." For not knowing the difference between a Music Man and a musical turkey, ANTA now faces the task of extending the "living Theatre" with a total debt of about...