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This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV University Libraries. Additional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or with any questions regarding access at special.collections@unlv.edu. l< ~ -?╜A4a Kit ECdf KIybvs New Barker Mil \ THERE'S A NEW master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat ,Klub in Harold Prince's "Cabaret." ?√ßHe shrieks "Willkommen" at tjie pickup -customers'/ in the same cheap, shoddy tone Joel Gray used, and he epitomizes the amoral sensuality of a directionless j3re-Hitler Berlin. ?╟≤ Gmf was brilliant and won a Tony. And Martin Ross, who took over when ^?Θ╝?╜I left to star as George M. Cohan in. "'George M./' has the tough task of fciHowing in a role that made a star of 'mn actor who, like himself, knocked fpound before the break came. I didn't have to tell Marty the prob- feint He knew it, and he has it. There wan't be first-night reviews or critical fifdaim, and he didn't create the role. Dtet I caught him the other night, and I think he's great. On Stage -* Ori stage he looks? like a drawing out 0f the ruthlessly realistic watercolors by ; Gepxge Grosz of Germany in the 1920s. He?s made the emcee a symbol of an er^ which may have something in corner-n with our own. ?╜, 4<1 started late as an actor. It broke thriDUgh after six years, when I thought I wanted to be a surgeon. I worked as a Navy medical technician?╟÷that's a scrub /'fcech?╟÷and -put in three pre-med years at Boston University," Ross told me. "I was handling instruments in surgery one clay, and 1 missed a cue. It wasn't critical. But I knew I was' at a point where 1 h&d to make up my mind. "My mind wasn't on the operation. It Was on a show I was doing in my spare iirne/' he remembered. "I was shaken. I went to the locker room and sat with xpygeljf. I decided for the stage." Marty's over 26 now, and hefs ?Σ≤?imd. But he hasn't regretted ?╟≤ Ms decision. He's like so -many., young e it lay. They don't set a goal and ?╟≤?√ß] it. They think, and a "ed'-goal becomes* apparent. Get it, Martin Ross as new master of ceremonies in musical "Cabaret." "X toured with 'The Boys from Syracuse,' had a dancing featured role in 'Milk and Honey,' did some sudden flops, 'Pousse Cafe/ 'Once For the Asking/ even the part of Arab in 'West Side Story' in Tokyo. "One day, I stopped in the street. I had no job. I said to myself, Tm an actor. I'm good at imitations . *?? . but nothing is happening.' Just before that, I swore I wouldn't be in a chorus. I auditioned for 'The Yearling.' I had a frietid in management. I went out and gang:'Why Was I Bora.' They roared. I was cast as a tree," ?? By ROBERT WAHL^iam Marty was horn on the Lower East Side. And his parents, Lucky and Helen Ross,; were vaudevillians. Mother was a member of "The International ..Nine.".; Dad was hoofing and in win, place and show biz. When junior was a year and a half, mother moved him to Teaneck, ,N. J.. ' "I went to school there. Mother said I had big ears, too big, but when I grew up they'd be in proportion. I did the bit, delivered groceries for the A&P, worked as a salesman at the Plaza Kiddie Shop in Teaneck. "The women used to dig me. They'd say, 'Feeling blue, go down and see Marty, He's always good for a laugh.' I was. I guess I am an introvert, but when turn-on time came, I was a ball of fire. I worked the Latin Quarter-,' Cotillion Room, always in support of someone." Acting Family Marty has a brother who is married and has a family. His mother decided to get back in the theater herself two years ago. She got a part in "Marat-Sade" and is now rehearsing "Mike, Downstairs/' "I got home from a commercial show in Miami, and there is a note on the kitchen table, 'Make your own supper, I have a rehearsal. Tsk, tsk. You understand. Mom/ And shes great nnd really living again. I now have my own apartment and liVe alone." The kid with the too-big ears, the Navy scrub tech who witnessed brain surgery and preliminary heart surgery but quit a lab after he found the dog they were experimenting on had Jfeeen stolen and was some kid's pet, is now a Broadway star. "I helped deliver 28 babies, helped at 10 circumcisions, watched the hearts*, and the brain in surgery/' he said. "But it wasn't me. You know who I think I look like? I don't know now. But In 20 years, I'll look just like Peter Lorre/* So "Willkommen" to "Cabaret/9 stranger. Martin Ross Joins Stars in 'Cabaret' Martin Ross, was elevated to staido m ?╟≤ 1 o r the f irst time 1 ast night when his name joined the other % tars- Jill Ha worth, Jack Gilford and .Despo-?╟÷of "Cabaret" on f he inn rq11ee. Karly th is > ea r ?╟≤he. succeeded Joel Grey as the m a ?√ß-t e r o t ee re monies In 1 h e previews July 19 al the Vivian! Beaumont . . . Saddler>will choreograph "Dear Wnffd/' the! 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