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...UT's former Byzantine Regency splendour, little survives; the bunched-up seats of the balcony are basically the same-although decently robed in new chintz ("There was so much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled...
Nothing else remains. Two hundred seats in the orchestra have been sacrificed to afford extra leg room (the HST seats 1689 to the UT's 1889), and the new seats -- covered in a cherry-red fabric -- are of the two-speed variety; the Ladies Lounge sports a heliotrope ceiling and two comfortably overstuffed chairs done in royal mauve; a new white plastic screen replaces a sickly and silvered one (the silvering, Mr. Kramer suspects, was applied early in the fifties when the UT succumbed to a brief 3-D period...
UNIVERSITY: The UT will be closed for alterations until December...
University: Through Sunday: After 35 years The UT is breathing its last gasps, and they're not bad. COME SEPTEMBER and THE HONEYMOON MACHINE are both billed as light comedies, and the billings are fair. The first is the story of an annual seduction thwarted on the Riviera; the second, the improbable tale of three sailors in Venice who take over a computer in an attempt to break the Venice Casino. Both are a good change of pace from studying. (The UT will re-open in December under a new management...
...often, the translation from stage to screen has not been an altogether felicitous one. But still, in all, one of last year's ten best; a courageous, honest, and well-performed document it is. Co-featured is an unknown quantity--a Novel "witty film package" (the words are the UT's). Tonight at 8:30. With Valerie Hobson and ever-amusing Stanley Holloway...