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Heading the cast of the Colum bia University Players’ “The Taming of the Shrew” as Pe trurchio is Dolph Sweet, an up per Junior who transferred to Columbia from Alabama after completing four years of military service. Dolph appeared in the 1946 Varsity Show as the Russian girl and the Small Town Minister and is now working on a script which he intends to submit for the coming Spring show. Not until he was shot down in the first raid over Ploesti and was transferred to Stalag Luft 3 did the Players’ leading man be come interested in the theatre. Because his hair was long and a female role was uncast in the prisoner’s production of “The Monkey's Paw”, Dolph was draft ed to go on stage, and he has been at it ever since. From this beginning he wrote, acting and directed several productions in prison camp until, after 20 months, the Russians came just in time to keep him from starring in “Hamlet”, next on the agenda. A liberal arts student, Dolph is looking forward to an acting and writing career a la Noel Coward, Al Wolfe, well known on cam pus for his many five character portrayals in the last three con secutive Players’ productions is dividing his time between playing Baptista, and helping Pres Munter during rehearsals as Assistant Director. Al, the only senior in the cast, expects to take his Mast ers degree in chemistry but has one eye open for the theatre. Moe Sussman and Jack Ott, other Players stalwarts, will be back again, Moe playing the suitor Hortensio, and Jack playing Tra nio, a servant who woos Bianca for his master Lucentio. Newcomers to the scene who show a great deal of ability and promise to afford the nucleus of the Players in future years are Allan Turnbull as Lucentio, Emile Jalbert as Biondello and Sorrell Booke as Crystopher Sly. Boke Promises to steal the show with his excellent portrayal of the drunken Sly, while Jalbert’s solos and Turnbull as the suitor who wins Bianca at the final curtain add interest and versitality to the production. Other members of the cast are, Martin Kaiden, Lionel Abzug, Henry Coleman, Jack Gourly, Al phonse Taillon, Gabriel Faverino, Sal Caltabiano, Milton Lewine, Jon Roessner, Joseph Kilian and Fred Kleeberg.
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New York Columbia Spectator
New York, New York, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1946
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