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'Cat on Hot Tin Roof' Is Beautifully Done
By PETER BELLAMY which the playwright is perthe type one would take tojeither children or her huschurch or home to mother. band's outward affection. A A high-pressure cast is put-sonally familiar.
ting super-heated steam into Williams in this play has in-ne is an ex-pro football player genuine cat on a hot tin roof, the emotional boiler of Ten-jected the drunkness and who has become an alcoholic she.
nessee Williams' play, "Cat hopelessness of Eugene O'-because he may or may not Bert L. Dragin, as her huson a Hot Tin Roof," at TheaNeill's "Long Day's Journey have had homosexual feelings band, has a difficult role to ter-in-the Valley, Chagrin Into Night," and the greed toward another pro football play in that he has little to Falls. and avarice of Lillian Hell-player, dead in a drunkard's say and most of the time is
While this Pulitzer Prizeman's "The Little Foxes."grave. drinking or paying visits to "Echo Springs," as he says. winning drama has a number There is also his attitude that THE WIFE OF THE alco-But by the few morose or of lines clearly written for life is a human cesspool. holic is a sexy, frustrated wo-hysterical speeches and shock value in the genre of BUT FOR ALL OF HIS man who is silently ach-actions he has, one may sense writing dirty words on the exaggerations in presenting ing for her husband's physithe torture of a man who can't sidewalk-it does reflect the the play's family chamber of cal love and children. Her make up his mind as to the agony, jealousy, hatred and horrors, he offers excitement wealthy father-in-law, un-direction of his sex life. despair of human life with and an arresting, although knowingly dying of cancer at Jim Albrecht, as Big Daddy, evil, mirror of life. Like so 65, is lusting for a sex life his the head of this nasty tribe, many human beings, his theat-wife has never provided him. is the picture of a goatish rical figures see dreadful The latter lady is a gushing, virile, self-made man, who characteristics in others sentimental type so mawkish can stand neither homosexwhich they cannot see in themone wants to give way to uals nor sniveling hypocrites. Betty McSeveney is an admirHuman beings, Heaven The drunken former foot-able theatrical emetic as the knows, reveal their true ball player's brother is so sickly sweet mother. Likewise selves when the going is greedy he would not only sell are Brian Michener, as the worst, and there is taut sus-his parents down the river, pense in waiting to find out but actually make delivery if how those in "Cat on a Hot he could inherit their money. Tin Roof" will react to sufThe acquisitive brother, aptly fering lust and temptation. named Gooper, has a wife Those of his dramatis perwho makes a virtue of spawnsonae, in this case, are hardly ing children as stupid as her-
selves.
Choir Celebrates
nausea.
self.
Director Richard Meadows has described Catherine Pop35th Year on Radiolovic, who plays the role of the NEW YORK, The tour-sexually underprivilged wife, ing 375-voice Mormon Taber-as a "director's dream," and nacle Choir celebrated its one can see why.
35th anniversary on radio IN HER PORTRAYAL of a yesterday with a broadcast shapely, highly sexed wife, she turns on the front burner
from the World's Fair.
About 1,500 were in the in projecting her seething inTexas Pavilion's music hall.ner torments at not having
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greedy brother, and Enid pleasant reflection of the vale; Mazzola, as his ever pregnant of tears that is this life, and wife. beautifully done. It will be re"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," to peated Thursday, Friday, Satsum up, is a particularly un-urday and Sunday nights.