Theatre Notables to Advise Center

In planning the program of dramatic arts to be carried out in the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth will have the advice and assistance of fourteen distinguished personages of the American theatre who have agreed to serve on the Center's Theatre Advisory Group.

Arthur Hornblow Jr. '15, motion picture producer and co-founder of the Screen Producers Guild, is chairman of the Theatre Advisory Group. The other mem- bers, who represent the entire range of theatrical arts - acting, writing, directing, producing, designing - and also include theatre guild leaders and television execufives, are pictured with Mr. Hornblow on this page and the one opposite. Their first meeting was held in New York on April 7.

The Hopkins Center will possess theatrical facilities of the most modern and varied kind. There will be a 450-seat theatre with complete staging facilities, a smaller student experimental theatre, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, and workshops.

Comparable advisory groups are being organized in the fields of art and music, and will be announced as soon as their memberships are completed.

Arthur Hornblow Jr. '15 The chairman of the Advisory Group spent his earliest theatre years as a Broadway playwright and producer, and then moved to Hollywood where he was producer for Paramount and M-G-M. Some of his top films were Rugglesof Red Gap, The AsphaltJungle, Cass Timberlane, TheHucksters, Oklahoma, and Gaslight. Currently he is engaged in Broadway producing.

Harry S. Ackerman '35 As vice president and production head for Screen Gems, the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, Mr. Ackerman is the producer of some of the country's leading TV shows. Former vice president and executive producer for CBS-TV, he was president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1958-59.

Luise M. Sillcox A key executive in the theatrical and literary worlds, Miss Sillcox has for some years been the executive secretary of The Dramatists Guild and also of the Authors League of America. Graduate of Columbia, she maintains her home in Hartford, Vermont, and is well acquainted with Dartmouth's theatre plans and with the Hanover community.

Hume Cronyn One of America's foremost actors, Mr. Cronyn is also a playwright and director. In addition to co-starring with his wife Jessica Tandy, he has appeared in many Broadway plays, including High Tor,Room Service and The Survivors, and also in many motion pictures, including ALetter to Evie, Brute Force,Life Boat, Seventh Cross, and The Green Years.

Jessica Tandy A brilliant actress, remembered for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire, Miss Tandy is currently starring on Broadway in Five Finger Exercise, for which the Drama League of New York last month awarded her the Delia Austrian Medal. Besides many individual roles, she has co-starred with her husband, Hume Cronyn, in The Fourposter, A Day bythe Sea, and Triple Play.

Moss Hart Pulitzer Prize winner in 1937 for You Can't Take It WithYou, Mr. Hart is the author of such celebrated hits as Once in a Lifetime, Face theMusic, As Thousands Cheer,The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Lady in the Dark. He directed the fabulously successful My Fair Lady and is the author of the current best-selling autobiography, ActOne.

Leland Hayward One of Broadway's top producers, Mr. Hayward's name is associated with many hits, including the current shows Gypsy and The Sound of Music. Other Broadway productions of his were Mr. Roberts,South Pacific, Call MeMadam, State of the Union, and Wish You Were Here. He also produced the movies Mr. Roberts and Spirit of St.Louis.

Jo Mielziner Perhaps America's best known set designer for plays, musical comedies, ballets and operas, Mr. Mielziner has helped stage dozens of celebrated shows to name but a few, Strange Interlude, Winterset, Pal Joey, The GlassMenagerie, Carousel, Deathof a Salesman, South Pacific,Guys and Dolls, The King andI, Can-Can, and, currently, Gypsy and The Best Man.

William Inge Former college teacher, at Stephens College for Women and at Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis, Mr. Inge wrote the play Farther Off fromHeaven in 1947, and then created three famous dramas: Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, and Bus Stop. The second of these won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, the Drama Critics Prize, and the Donaldson Award.

Robert Ryan '32 A veteran movie star, having appeared in 52 films in the past 17 years, Mr. Ryan takes time out for occasional stage roles and will soon go into rehearsal for Antony and Cleopatra, with Katherine Hepburn, at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. In his current movie, OddsAgainst Tomorrow, he costars with Harry Belafonte and Shelley Winters.

Lawrence Langner An international authority on patents, Mr. Langner is equally prominent in the American theatre as founder of The Theatre Guild, producer of G. B. Shaw and Eugene O'Neill plays, author of one-act plays, and as founder, with his wife Armina Marshall, of the Westport (Conn.) Country Playhouse and the Shakespeare Repertory Theatre in Stratford, Conn.

Sylvester Weaver Jr. '30 Former president and chairman of the National Broadcasting Company, Mr. Weaver is now board chairman of McCann-Erickson Corporation. Originator of the TV shows Wide, Wide World, Today and Tonight, he won the Peabody Award for "broadening horizons of television by showing respect for the intelligence of the public." He also won Variety's 1955 award.

Sidney Lumet Director of stage, motion picture and television plays, Mr. Lumet first was an actor, as Tonya in Seeds in the Wind in New York, 1948. He directed the film 12 Angry Men, staged Camus's Caligula in New York earlier this year, and is now directing a twopart drama based on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case for NBCTV, which will be seen on June 3 and 10.

Fred Zinnemann Director of the Oscar-winning film, From Here to Eternity, Mr. Zinnemann has been engaged in making movies since 1928. From prize-winning documentaries and shorts he turned to full-length films and has directed The Search,High Noon, The Member ofthe Wedding, Oklahoma, AHatful of Rain, and, most recently, The Nun's Story, nominee for the Academy award.