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U:JC library Friday, December 9, 1966 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pane 3 You Can't Take It With You atest Playnnakeirs Presentation Is A Crowd Please L By OWEN LEWIS DTH Reviewer Playmakers' Theater A re vival of the play in three acts, "You Can't Take it With You," by Hart and George S. Kaufman, directed by Foster Fitz-Simmons, sets by Tom Rezzuto, costumes by Camille Hardy and lighting by Stan ford Eskridge, presented by Carolina Playmakers, opened Wednesday night and continues nightly at 8 p.m. with a mati nee Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Cast includes Louise Lamont, Mar garet Howell, Liddie Cobb, J. W. Talarowski, Douglas Bar ger, Jim Chesnutt, Edward Waddell, Walter Spearman, Lisa Sherman, Pat Hurley, Rick Dula, Michael Hardy, Madge . Bunce, Arthur Cain, Melody Dickson, David Offill, Bob Gaston, Robert Hardison and Betty Setzer. Maybe "You Can't Take It With You," but you can surely have fun with it while you're there. This Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 comedy is a real crowd pleaser. So despite a lackluster opening night per formance under lagging direc tion, a full house had a rollick ing evening laughing at ex tremely funny lines and the zaniest of situations. Even af ter nearly three hours of it, the -audience was enthusiastic and there were curtain calls aplenty. The set, costumes and light ing were first rate a real pe-., riod piece. The direction was a major logistical problem, with as many as 16 persons on the little Playmaker stage at one time, along with a xylo phone, a printing press, a bal let dancer, fireworks and what have you. Walter Spearman, as Mar tin Vanderhof, presides over an eccentric household. He had decided 35 years earlier that "you can't take it with you," and had simply stopped going to work and settled for a life of attending commencements and going to zoos. His menage is a group of people who do exactly what they want to do, and they are confronted in the second act by the Wall Street type parents of a young man who wants to marry Grandpa Spearman's granddaughter. The climax comes at the end of this act when bedlam breaks loose. Basically it is Spearman's show. He begins by trying too hard to move like a grandpa and talk like a grandpa. But then he relaxes and just is the grandpa that he is, and comes off with a great per formance. There are some highly ef fective actors in minor roles J. W. Talarowski, although miscast, uses a keen sense of timing to bring off the role of Paul Sycamore. Rick Dula, with an effective voice and a powerful stage presence, is a convincing Tony Kirby. Ed and Essie, particularly Ed (Jim Chesnutt), are among those who effectively bring off the zaniness on which this showT is based, and which amatuers find so hard to cope with. On the negative side, the three G-men and the Internal Revenue agent must have been picked off the afternoon Trailways bus from Gibson viile, and Kolenkhov, the Rus sian dancing teacher, overacts all the way. The denouement in the third act drags, but the play finish es on a wild and happy note. For all the opening night jit ters, no one really dropped the dishes, and all in all, it was a good evening's entertainment. AW STOMACH J H'JRTS J j! 5PEAWNS OF S7DMACH5-ARNT tS-4 A&5 THAT'S IB I FAT PAINS J (r E rl 'ternal City Faithful Close To Christ Feel VATICAN CITY (UPI) The eternal city is the place where the faithful can celebrate Christmas amid things which tradition says were close to Christ. The Vatican and Rome's nearly 500 churches and ba silicas are filled with relics dating back to early Christi anity. Those attending Mass in St. Mary Major Basilica on Christmas Eve will kneel and pray before four historic woo den boards. The boards darkened by age, are purported to com promise part of the crib in which the Christ Child was placed. They are said to have been brought to Rome from Bethlehem by Pope Sixtus IV in 1486. Other pieces of wood are housed near the majestic Ba silica of St. John in Christi anity. The wood covers 28 stone steps, and tradition claims they are the steps Christ mounted to appear be fore Pontius Pilate. After attending midnight Mass at St. John's the de vout climb the "holy stairs" on their knees in a demonstra ion of humility. Other faithful will kneel and pray before a priceless life - size statue of the Christ Child at the Church of the "Ara Coeli," one of N the old est churches in Rome. The statue, which dates back centuries, was carved from an olive tree taken from Gethsemane, at the foot of the Christmas In Other Lands semane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Christ suffered his agony. Those worshipping in St. Peter's, the largest basilica in the world, share the belief that Saint Peter, the Apostle to whom Christ "gave" the Keys of the Church, is buried directly under the basilica. Bones believed to be Peter's have been found there. Thie papal descendant of Peter, Pope Paul VI, re -ceives members of the Col lege of Cardinals and of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See in colorful ceremonies during the Christ mas season. But it is to the Church's half a billion faithful that the Pontiff pays special attention at Christmas. Vatican Ra dio carries his annual mes sage to all corners of . t h e earth on the Christ's birth. Creighton Shirts are more traditional at The University of North Carolina mm Finer Diamonds come from WELDON'S JEWELERS Ask About Our Special Student Terms WELDON'S JEWELERS 327 W. Main Durham Students' Jewelers 27 Years r - ! x- - if ! i K ' - " " "i 4 . 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