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25 pcifci usances will be omitted and cn New Year's Day matinees will be given instead of the icfeolar evening performances. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by William Rose. Presented at the Beekman and New Embassy Theaters. Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes.

THE CAST: AAfttt Dravron Soencer Tracy John Prntif Sidney Poitier Christina Drayton Katharine Hepburn Joey Drayton Katharine Houghton of the August Moon, has been signed for the part, of the man involved in high-level national politics. Vidal's other political comedy was "The Best Man." Forsythe went to Hollywood after "Teahouse" and became a popular performer in films and on television. "Weekend" is slated to go into rehearsal Jan. 22 under the direction cf Joseph Anthony. It is expected to open on Broadway March 6 after tryouts in New Haven and Washington.

John Bennett Perry, who used to be cne of the Serendipity Singers, will substitute for David Cry-er in "Now Is the Time for All Good Men" from Dec. 18 through Jan. 16 at the Theater De Lys. Cryer will be in Baltimore playing El Gallo In "The Fantasticks" which 5s being presented on tour by Albert Poland and Cryer. "Spcfford," starring Melvyn Douglas, will give previews at the ANTA Theater tonight and tomorrow in preparation for Thursday's opening.

The comedy, written and directed by Herman Shumlin, is based on the Peter DeVries novel, "Reuben, Reuben." The east includes Pert Kelton i and Barbara Britton. Tickets are now on sale at the box office "of Theater Four for the Dec. 27 opening of "Have I Got One for You," starring film actress Gloria De Haven. The musical will begin playing pre- iron Mr. Prentlce Beah Richards 9oy E.

Glenn Sr. Isabel Sanford "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" must be counted as an important contribution to motion pictures. With fearless directness Stanley Kramer takes a fresh and risky tcpic, inter-racial marriage, deals with it boldly and lets the criticisms fall where they may. At the Victoria and Beekman Theaters, the Columbia picture evidences Kramer's uncanny ability in selecting the right cast to portray the characters created by William Rose, to speak the author's penetrating lines as they should, naturally, humorously, bitterly and in the case of Spencer Tracy, simply and eloquently. Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Katharine Houghton appear as the white people in this problem.

Negroes are played by Sidney Poitier, Beah Richards, Isabel Sanford and Roy E. Glenn Sr. But withal, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is the late great actor's picture and he dominates it with his vitality and the clarity and logic of his presentation. TRACY PLAYS a San Francisco editor, known for his perpetual fight against every form of discrimination, who has a few hours to make the momentous decision of his life. His lovely daughter brings home a Negro doctor, says they are in love and are going to be married but only with her father's permission.

The decision must be made that evening as the doctor will be leaving for a post in Switzerland the next day. Kramer gets protagonists together in Tracy's home. Here are his wife, Katherine Hepburn, his daughter, Katharine Houghton, the doctor, Sidney Poitier, the housekeeper. Isabel Sanford and the doctor's parents, Beah Richards and Roy E. Glenn who have arrived from Los Angeles to spend the evening with their son before he goes abroad.

And there is, the old family friend, Cecil Kellaway, a Catholic monsignor. EVERYONE HAS HIS or her say on the controversial subject. For the union are the two mothers, purely from an emotional standpoint. The priest says that two people so much in love are bound to have good luck. Against the marriage are the two fathers and the maid who says: "Civil Mr.

PrHitice Tillte views next Tuesday night. Tickets for "Rosencrantz fld Guildenstern Are Dead" sit now being sold at the Eugene O'Neill boxoffice. The hit comedy will move to othe O'Neill Jan. fiom the Alvin. "Here's Where I Belong, the musical version of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," went into rehearsal yesterday under ih direction of Michael Kahn.

Paul Rogers and Nancy Wkkwir head the east. The show is due Feb. 20 at the Billy Rose after a bieek-ta run in Philadelphia. Four star roles have been assigned in "The Day the Lid New Off," a long one-acter by- Dcaa Taylor, opening Jan. 9 at the Ja Hus Playhouse.

The four i Nancy Andrews, Leslie Banett, William Shust and Ann Wfee-worth. The producer i Willis Hunt. rig'hts are one thing, this is something else agajni. There is talk between the doctor and his father in which they tell each ether off, the latter speaks of his great sacrifice to educate his boy and doesn't want ijim to marry a white girl and suffer the consequences. An-ered, the son pays he didn't ask be born find that his father owed that education.

About this time, Tracy, alone on the balcony cf hie apartment, sums up his consternation: a son of a bitch." LATER, TRACY TAKES the floor, and lets them all have it. He says the mothers, in a romantic haze, are inaccessible to anything in the way of reason. That the young couple are blindly irresponsible. He presents the pros and cons of the case, tells them of the prejudices and bigotry they will eventually have to face and when be does capitulate he says: "No matter how confident they are, I'm a little scared." He says a great deal more that makes sense in this monologue and gives a moving answer to the Negro mother's attack on the men for being too old to recognize real love. On this he takes issue and what he says brings tears to the audience, for they feel he is talking about himself as well as the man he is portraying.

POITIER IS excellent as the doctor, a man cf honor and dignity. Katharine Hepburn in her ninth appearance Spencer Tracy, ha little to say but she makes her view clear in a words and gives that magic touch to the role cf the girl's mother and man's wife. In her maturity, Miss Hepburn shines with a beauty that makes some of the big-bosomed glamor girls look cheap. Her own niece, Katharine Houghton, who plays her daughter here, is lovely to look at, easy before the camera and in the presence of the pros. BEAH RICHARDS plays down the mother of the doctor, so does Roy E.

Glenn Sr. as the father. Isabel Sanford as the major domo of Tracy's home gives a good performance. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is presented almost like a stage play. There is a lot of conversation, most of which is intelligent and meaningful.

Kramer's direction of the Rose story has the imprint of his good taste on it. It's his production, too, and he can be proud of being the first to tackle this controversial topic. Special Performance Seats are on sale at the Music Box for the special performance of "There's a Girl in My Soup." Sunday evening, for the benefit of the Actors' Fund. dire nnmin wa aw for the martini LBEEFEATTEC? THE IMPORTED GIN" FROM ENGLAND PORTED BY KCBRAND. II.

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