Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1934 — Page 19

NOV. 24, 1934

MINA HAGER TO BE MAENNERCHOR SOLOIST

'FoHies , Offer Fannie Brice With Howards This Year’s Edition of Ziegfeld Show Will Open Here Oct. 6. Tht “Ziegfeld Follies of 1934,” lining to English s lor three nights. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. December 6. 7 and 8. with a matinee en Saturday, assigns the major riiare of its funmaking to a trie of clowns for whom Indianapolis retains a happy affection. Fannie Brice and Willie and Eugene Howard. Miss Brice has several comedy songs that were written specially for her use in the "Follies,” including "Soul Saving Sadie,” a satirical comment on the art practiced by Aimee Semple McPherson; "Sunshine Sarah,” a musical plea for nudism, and “Countess Dublinsky,” a song which serves as a preamble for Fannie's lamous burlesque of fan dancers. Willie Howard runs the gamut of impersonations from a hillbilly doing a burlesque version of “The Last Round-up” to the famous maestro of the radio, RubinofT and his violin. Other principal roles will be taken by June and Cherry Preisser. novel acrobatic dancing team; Harrison and Fisher classic dance stars of the screen and stage; Barre Hill, bantone of the Chicago Civic Opera; Vivian Janis, singing star with Ben Bernie and Leon Belasco’s orchestra; Niela Goodelle, prima donna with the last "Ziegfeld Follies;” Victor Morley, veteran star of half a hundred dramatic successes; Eve Arden. Bryce Hutchens, Leona Sousa. Judith Barren. Evelyn Thawl and Delores Montz, Miss World's Pair. Hamers Added U> Bill. NEW YORK. Nov. 24 —A new ensemble of eight dancers, who offer wo original routines nightly, has been added to the cast of the revue offered in the Hotel Roosevelt Grill. Santa Spanish dancer, the team of Bobby Gillette and Shirley Richards, and Del Campo's orchestra are the other featured attractions.

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Billy Hill One of the beautiful women to be seen in Ziegfeld Follies when it comes to English's for a three-day engagement starting Thursday night, Dec. 6, will be Billy Hill. New Musical Show to Open Tom Long Among Cast of New York Play. By 'l'iiucs special NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin state that on Nov. 28 will be the premiere of “Revenge With Musk,” the musical play by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, at the New Amsterdam theater. Charles Winninger, Libby Holman and Georges Metaxa are the starring performers in a company of sixty, which also includes Ilka Chase, Rex OMalley, Joseph Macaulay and Margaret Lee. Albert Johnson has designed the settings. Constance Ripley the costumes, and Mordkm has staged the dances. Since the opening is set for Thanksgiving eve, there will be a special matinee the following afternoon. Thereafter matinees will be on Wednesday. Tom Long, Indianapolis former press agent for the Indiana, and Circle theaters, is a member of the cast of “Revenge With Music.” Edith Evans Arrives in U. S. /> ii I mu k Spt viol NEW YORK. Nov. 24 —Edith Evans has arrived in New York from Europe to begin renearsals of William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” with Katharine Cornell, Basil Rathoone and Brian Aherne. Miss Evans suspended her English tour in “The Late Christopher Bean” for eight weeks in order to come to America to play the nurse in the Shakespeare tragedy.

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Monte Carlo Ballet Obeys Old Tradition Famous Organization Will Appear at English’s v Monday, Dec. 10. After an absence of nearly twenty years, the Russian ballet has been bi ought back to America by Colonel W. De Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carle. This famous organization will come to English’s under the local management of Mrs. Nancy Martens on Monday night, Dec. 10. Until the Monte Carlo company made its debut in New' York, an occasion for which inhabitants of the metropolis willingly paid $25 a seat, no complete ballet organization in the tradition of the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg had been seen here since Serge Diaghiley brought his Ballet Russe across the Atlantic in 1916 and 1917, playing in Mew York and in several other principal cities. During the interval, in the late Mme. Anna Pavlowa toured the country, under the management of S. Hurok, the impresario who now brings the Monte Carlo company here. That great star, whose last tour was in 1925, traveled as a solo aitist with assisting dancers. With fifty dancers, of whom no fewer than four are ranked as prima ballerinas, while even members of the corps de ballet are capable of solo performances, Colonel de Basil's company is organized according to the great tradition of the ballet. Dancers of various types and styles, from the intense and dusky Tamara Toumanova to fragile blend Irina Baronova, from dashing Leonide Massine to muscular David Lichine, are there to play roles important of unimportant according to the needs of the particular production. Colonel De Basil beileves in the no-star system, which in effect means that any particular ballet is likely tc have an all-star cast. M. Massine himself, maitre de ballet of the company and choreographer of the first rank, regularly dances as one of the tribesmen in "Prince Igor,” unrecognizable behind his make-up as a barbaric warrior, although his dancing in the leading roles of such ballets as “The Three-Cornered Hat” and “The Eeautiful Danube,” both his own cieations, has been recorded as unequalled by critics in Paris, London and New York. Traveling with its own symphony orchestra conductor and a large staff of stage and lighting experts, the company now is on a five-months’ ■ oUI. Irvington Group to Present Play Fiisf play of the 1934 season of the Irvington Playhouse will be given at 8 on Dec. 3 at the Irvington giade school on East Washington street. Miss Elizabeth Carter Whetsel will direct the play. Miss Ruth Medias and Ray Robinson have the leading parts in the play, “Russian Honeymoon.” Mis. S. G. Howard. Miss Mary Jane MeGaughey, Thomas P. Rhoades. Arthur Long and William H Fresh Jr., are also in the cast.

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Karl Reckzeh Will Direct Male Chorus Mezzo-Soprano Will Be Heard Monday at Music Academy. Mina Hager, mezzo-soprano, and the male chorus under the direction of Karl Reckzeh will open the cuirent season of the Indianapolis Maennerchor at the Academy of Music at 8:15 Monday night. The program of both the soloist and the chorus will be in German and will be drawn from such composers as Weinzierl, Hugho Wolf, Erich Wolfff, Richard Strauss and Joseph Marx. The chorus will open the conceit with two numbers and will be followed by Miss Hager in a group of four songs. The chorus will make three ap-. pearances during the program and the soloist four. The singers will bring some composers to the program who have not been heard lately. The chorus has been in rehearsal for weeks and many new members will be present to welcome the chorus and Miss Hager at the first concert of the season. Announcement is made that the artist for the second concert to be given on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 9, will be Florence Easton, famous soprano. The Maennerchor will bring both new and old favorites to the Academy of Music this season.

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