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Distaff WriterHelped by Wa itNEW YORK - lt;AP) Lows Yerby. a promising newcomer ; in the sparse ranks of disUff dramatists, has some advice for all apprentice authors.“1 delayed writing for five years, until my children were old enough to go to school. she says. I think it would be a good idea for all writers to have to wait out a period like that—you clear up a Lot of things before setting to work.Miss Yerby. a tiny woman with luminous brown eyes, has just had her stagecraft debut at age 33 with off-Broadway production ef two short plays. The Last Minstrel and Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn.Besides winning a favorable critical consensus, she has displayed other evidence of being on the way up; obtained as her agent Audrey Wood, who also handles Tennessee Williams and William Inge among others: and sold a rull-length play for fall exhibit on Broadway.I'm curious aboul most everything. she says of her range of dramatic interest. Of the way she handles themes: there'ssome comedy in every situation.Before settling down at hertypewriter. Miss Yerby bad a career of assorted activities. She has worked as a newspaper copy girl, a department store clerk, a cantelope picker, a campaigner for both major political parties, been an uiher at the UN and a pastry chef. She is married to Michael Dutton, a TV director, from whom she’s been separated for two years. Their two sons, Mike, eight, and Win-jston. seven, live with her in IMalibu, Calif.j A while back she ran a week -|end culture salon that developed I a wide following. An anthropology professor launched her as a play-:Wrignt-for-pay by showing some scripts to John Houseman, the well-known slage-screen director ;\vho oversees a showcase theater at UCLA.Until then she had filed each play away as she finished it.I felt if I spent a year trying to get one produced. I'd not be getting on with what I really .wanted to do, she explains.! Miss Yerby likes to have two I works underway simultaneously, |so that she can shift to the other •when inspiration on one palls. jAmong her output so Fur is one called The Golden Bull of Bore-|dom.1 It's a play to be pat on be-2 Area Men to Perform In Plays at UConnSTORRS—Two area men will take part in the seventh season of ihe • Nutmeg Summer Play-houte opening here June IS with Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.Stephen Harrison, a ‘Westport senior, will perform. He won the 1963 Outstanding Actor award at the University of Connecticut. : Last summer he played in Liic with Father, and Under the Yum Yum Tree.Roger Cornish, of Bridgeport, j will appear in several productions during the 10-week season. I He is stage manager.Several star performers are ' recruited to augment the resl-ident company. Plays are presented in the 500-seat Harriet S. Jorgensen theater.tween # the acls of another drama, she says, ‘it’s for people who don’l like lo go out for a smoke at intermission.”Hardest part of her job? Avoiding other people’s suggestions.As soon as they find out you write,” she grieves, they want to give you ideas for plays.Today Kiddie Maiinee — Doors Open 1:30 P.M.Sign of the Gladiator and Goliath and the Dragon'
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Sun, Jun 09, 1963
Page 29
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