Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1937 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, OCT. 19, 1937

Miss Jepson Sings Lyric

SILHOUETTE CONTEST

Repertoire

Blond Soprano Chooses Program With Eye to Charm.

By A cl pling throug lish's last

JAMES THRASHER of ecstatic “Ahs,” h the audience at Engnight, indicated

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rip-

that |

Helen Jepson had made a distinctly | favorable first impression before she

opened her mouth in song. It was Indianapolis’ first glimpse of blond Metropolitan singer, who opened the season's Martens concerts. And that first glimpse was something of a revelation to those who have lived in a generation portly operatic sopranos. Miss Jepgolden hair an excuse diva,” faces

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Ol aivine known however, In mien. She is all gracio and her program was a light one intended, evidently, to charm rather than to move deeply

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1ISNNessS

Sings Two Arias

Except for the two familiar “Un bel ai " from Matas Butterflv.” and “Ar, fors' el from “La Traviata, ponderance of lyric or “whimsical’ songs. To begin with, there were Dr. Arne’s “Poliv Wallis” and French folk songs in bv Sir Arnold Bax and Schaefer. A group of German Lie-

der by Cornelius, and the more mod- | Korngold and Marx, fol- |

ern Blech, lowed the Puccini aria.

After the intermission, Miss Jep-

son drew ypon the music of Debussy, Hahn, Chabrier and Canal for other French group. And of course

there were English songs and nu- |

merous encores to round out the program. Miss Jepson showed herself to be a well-schooled singer, possessing a voice of ample power and even scale within most of its range. Her pronunciation was understandable

all languages the program re-

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quired, and she phrased with intelli-

gence Singing Lacks Warmth

there was absent the her interpretations had med at the fire of an ner con1 And without is inclined The great joy

Yet tha war victl brilliance naught to music 1S thusias vhe artist But this demands a oreat deal from a performer—evidentlv more than Miss Jepson had at her command last evening. Robert Wallenborn, was making his first appearance here. proved to be an eminently capable accompanist. As a solo group he offered Debussy’s “Dr. Gr adus ad Parnassum,’ tourelle” by Poulenc, the Ravel Toccata and encores by Debussy Prokofiev, fluency and forthrig

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ht musicianship.

GRIDDERS IN GREASE

Howard Jones’ 1937 football squad got in a bit practice when three elevens and all the freshman candidates available worked in grid scenes in Navy.”

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

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CIRCLE

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CIVIC THEATER

“No More Ladies,” E. Thomas. Curtain at

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KEITH'S

Yandevilie on stage ettes. at 0. 4. 6:50 ‘Love Takes Flight,” with Cabot and Beatrice Roberts. 2:40, 5. 7:50, 10:20

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" W alter Wanger's Vogues of 1938", h Warner Baxter and Joan Ben6:50 oF

with Saxon9:20

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nett at 12:30 ‘London By Night, Murphy and 3 Rita Johnson.

2:25 5:35 LYRIC

Vaudeville on stage with orchestra, at 1:09

ith George at 11:15.

Mal Ral 3:46, 43, with Hor 32. 2:00

“Danger—Love at Work.’ Haley, Edward Everet Ann Sothern at 1 7:53. 10:30

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DRAMA RUNS IN FAMILY

“vehicle” that

The oft-predicted Owen Davis, playwright, is going to Owen Davis Jr, actor, seems as far away as ever. For the younger Davis will be at

ing part of “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” while his father will be watchng the progress of “Virginia,” the | Rockefellers’ Colonial collosus at the Center Theater, New York. The elder Davis collaborated with Laurence Stallings in writing=and rewriting- the early American epic. It would seem that young Owen should be able to find some made- | to~order theatrical garment for his talents. For his brother Donald, as well as his father, is a dramatist, In | fact, young Owen himself planned to follow in the paternal footsteps. [He enrolled in Prof. Baker's famous playwriting class at Yale, But he [left later to enter the American {Academy of Dramatic Art, where {actors are made,

Playwright Before Parent 1as talented,

Owen Jr. got his first part, a| | walk-on, in “The Barker.” His first | Hollywood, (speaking role was in “Carry On” {which his father wrote, The young | {man read it and said it had a role | he should play. The elder Davis, | [playwright first and parent after | | |

Owen Davis Jr,

has had his He appeared | Quiles on the Western Front,’ Had to See Paris,” and other films | of greater or lesser degree. He tore himself away, however, and beat this season's general exodus of screen stars to Broadway by about a véar Now he's doing very well in the { Mark Reed play which will bring | him here along with Florence Reed, | Agnes Doyle and Lawrence Gross smith,

Bomar Cramer To Open Season

fling at in “All “They

ward, said he didn't think so. | Further, he said he would not use his influence with the play's producer, But young Owen apparently | needed no assistance, He got the | part through his own efforts. These | efforts were so successful that his | father relented. Since then son Davis has appeared in several [dramas of father Davis, But never as the star in a ready-made part, Owen Jr, being handsome as well

{ Bomar the latter class, there is one para-|

| graph particularly worth quoting: | Planist, “AS a unit. this (the movie) au-| Musicale concert [ dience always is more emotional and | cital in Ayres Auditorium on Oct, [less intellectual than its component | 20 at 3 p. m, | parts. It is represented by its low=| ‘This is to be Mr, Cramer's fourth est feeling or attitude, annual appearance on the Soe “We have learned that this mythi- | clety’s programs. Last year his pros cal audience will contain more wom- | gram was made up of the entire that it wants food for | list of Chopin etudes. that it prefers fun- | en : stories full of

Cramer, open season with a

Indianapolis Matineas fe

ig to the

[en than men; | its imagination; damental human laughter and tears; that it wants its emotions aroused; that it wants | something that will pleasantly excite | it, amuse it, wring it with suspense, | fill it with self-approval, or even] arouse its indignation , ., , and| above all things, it wants to be ‘sent home happy'.”

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LOEW'S

2ND FEATURE

Council For Crime OTTO KRUGER