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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY,

NOV. 20, 1937

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ASSUMES 'MAJOR’ PROPORTIONS °

String y Choir

DANCER IN CIVIC

THEATER BALLET

Shows Best At Premiere

Sensitive Care to Detail Read Into Brahms by Sevitzky.

By JAMES THRASHER

The Indianapolis Symphony

ization to a body of “major” propor- | tions. Yesterday orchestra showed its musical stature | | in 2 concert which will be repeated at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Born of long-standing hopes and | labors, the orchestra has emerged | from a period of growth as a semi- | professional group under the untir- | ing leadership of Ferdinand Schaefer Now it starts a new phase with Tavien Sevitzky, an artist of wide | experience and proven ability, conductor. It was natural that Mr. Sevitzky | should be chosen, for in one electrifying guest appearance last year, he | made it plain that he was the man for the job. Yesterday he showed the audience that his dynamic pres- | ence already has developed a creditable band of musicians. One left | the hall with immediate satisfaction | ann confident hopes for the future. Brahms Selection Approved No more appropriate symphony could be chosen for the first concert by this new orchestra than the | first Symphony of Brahms, for no | composer ever began his contribution to symphonic literature with a work so majestic and so satisfying | through the vears Its performance yesterday was | better, perhaps, than one might] have expected from 80 musicians | assembled only a fortnight ago. Mr. | Savitzy read the work with un- | flagging spirit, vet with a sensitive care of detail. And the plavers gave out his interpretation with a reciprocal spirit. There was the imposing pomp of | Weber's Overture to “Eurvanthe” t begin the concert. This was followed bv a work new to Indianapolis, the Fugue for 18 Violins by the Russian-

Or- | 3 chestra comes of age this week-end | } with its first concerts since reorgan- |

in the Murat, the | |

as its | §

Hailed by

Leonide Massine as one of America's most promising ballerinas, Dorothy Etheridge will be,

seen with the Lilias Courtney Ballet ville in a performance at the Civic Thexver tonight.

Co. of Louis-

American, Arcady Dubensky. The | composer obviously has studied | Bach and has seen no good reason to depart from his teachings. It is well-constructed work, written with a havpy feeling for the beauty of the higher strings. It is also something of a problem in multiple virtuosity, and the plavers solved it brilliantly. Conducted With Authority The afternoon’s. severest test came in Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel,” that delightful tour de force of musical sauciness. It true that the orchestra could not follow Till in some | of his more energetic excursions. But once they had him on the gibbet, they united in dispatching him for the rogue that he was, although a most engaging one. Dispensing with a score, Mr Sevitzky conducted the program with an authority born of a knowl- | edge of music. an equal knowledge | of his intentions, and the compelling | power of seeing that they were] carried out Of the orchestra, half of whom | are new members, the most im-| pressive choir was the strings. There | is rich tonal quality, precision and | ample technical equipment. But the whole organization shows a marked improvement The dynamic range is widened decidedly. In fact, most of yesterday's difficulties were in| matters of individual intonation | rather than in a lack of balance or | ensemble, which is the usual weak- | ness of newly formed orchestras. The next pair of concerts, which | will be heard in two weeks, is to include music by Frederick Converse,

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO

“Second Honeymoon,” with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, at 12:52, 4:03, 7:14, 10.15. “45 Fathers,” with Jane Withers and Thomas Beck. at 11: aL 2:52, 6:03, 4.

CIRCLE

“Blossoms on Broadway.” with Edward Arnold. Shirley Ross and John Trent, = 12:46, 3: 51 6:56, 10:01. “Ove the Goal,” with Johnnie Davis and June Pravis at 11:43, 2:48,

5:53, INDIANA “Merry-Go-Round _ of 1938.” with Mischa Auer, Alice Brady, Bert lam and | Jimmy Savo, at 12:40, 3:50

“Girl With Ideas,” with Wendy Barrie ana Kent Taylor, at 11:35, 2:45, 5:50, 9. ; KEITH'S Andre Laskys 4 French Revue

stage, at 6:50, 9:2 hanks For Listening,’ with Pinky oyle

Tomlin and Nakine 0

<:30. 5, 7:50 120. LOEW'S “The Awful Truth,” with Ralph

Bellamy, Alexander D. qurey and Cecil Cunningham, at 135, 3:45, :55,

“Between Two Women,” with Franchot Tone, Maureen osulivan 2nd Virginia Bruce. at 11, 2:10, 5:20,

LYRIC 5 Se on stage, at 12:57, 3:48,

“It’s Love I'm After,” with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and ivr = fiasiland. at 11:14, 2:02, 5:0

OHIO Champagne Waltz,” with Fred Mactan and Gladys Swarthout Also “Meet the Missus,” with Victor Moore and Helen Broderick AMBASSA DOR

with

“Double or Nothing,” Crosby. Also ALAMO

Bing

“Public Cowboy No. 1,” with Autry. Also “Flight from Glo Chester Morris.

Gene ' with

Tschaikowsky and Franck, with] Simon Barer as ginnio soloist,

Dramatic Club

x Formed at Y| x

The Y. W. C. A. has announced | the formation of a dramatic club | open to men and women. Mrs. Eu- | gene Fife, Indianapolis teacher and | play director, is director. A regular schedul® of plays ol planned, with productions in ihe | auditorium under sponsorship of | various Y. W. C. A. social groups. The club also plans to co-operate with other city organizations wisheing to give dramatic productions. Further information may be obtained at the Y. W. C. A. Saturday Cork’s

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Revue Tops Keith's Bill

"Golden bl Bares Dance' Presents |

New Big Apple Version.

| Andre Lasky's fast = moving | “French Revue,” at Keith's this week, is considerably more revue | than French.

The featured Dance of the Golden Ball turns out to be a variation lof the Big Apple. At least it is a | big apple and not a golden ball | that hides Diaz and Dianne during the well-conceived but poorly dedicated ballet which precedes their dance. Likewise Franz and Fuller's xylophoned “Notre Dame” is not the cathedral but the football team that meets Northwestern today. Best act of the show is not Mile. Dianne’s “aesthetic nudity,” but a comedy routine in which a bass drum gives off music comparable to a bass viol's. Similarly Franz and

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INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Fabien Sevitzky

Conductor

CONCERT TONIGHT

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Puller make their xylophones sound

remotely like an organ, while scenery is moved loudly back of the drop. The movie, “Thanks for Listening,” gives Pinky Tomlin a chance to sing “The Love Bug Will Bite You” and to pay successful court to Maxine Doyle. Aileen Pringle | leads the gang of crooks that the supposedly naive Mr. Tomlin undoes. (S. E. H)

‘CAROLE LOMBARD

IS STRICKEN AGAIN

HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 20 (U. P).— Carole Lombard, motion picture star, was confined to her home under a physician's care today with influenza. Dr. Doyle James said 1it was a recurrence of an attack she suffered on location at Lake Arrowshead recently.

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Wildest Love Story of the Year!

“A Girl With Ideas”

WITH WENDY BARRIE

KENT TAYLOR—DOROTHEA KENT

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Smashing Comedy on the Gridiron!

JOHNNIE DAVIS “OVER THE GOAL” CIRCLE THUR SDA)

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POWER-YOUNC Second

The Coriedy You're Hearing About!

JANE WITHERS IN “Forty-Five Fathers”

It's Laughter Week for | ~ Movie Fans as Lyric and “Indiana Feature Comedy

Merry-Go-Round" Film (Good Time Had by Gil

( background,

Adds Slapstick To Farce.

As proof that Hollywood is going for comedies in a big way these days one has but to observe the | features at first-run movie houses this week. Almost without exception broad farce, even slapstick, is evident. “Merry-Go-Round of 1938” at the Indiana is not an exception. With Mischa Auer, Jimmy Savo, Bert Lahr and Billy House heading | the cast, the picture races along | from one hilarious scene to another. In the above named quartet are represented some of Hollywood's and Broadway's better-known comedians. Even Mr. Lahr, whom HolIywood and many movie fans did | not find so6 amusing in previous screen appearances, turns in a good performance. | Messrs. Savo and House are newcomers to the screen, and judging | from the reception accorded their | antics yesterday they are just as | funny on the screen as they have | been on the stage for many years.

Save Top Notch

Mr. Savo, a top notch pantomime | artist, makes an impish glance and | suggested action serve adequately | as his medium of expression. The mere sight of the 260-pound Mr. | House in reminine garb, which he wears for at least half the picture, | is enough to incite laughter. The plot revolves about the efforts of Messrs. House, Lahr, Auer | and Savo in arranging a happy solution to the love affair of the | young girl whom they have raised | from babvhood. As a foursome they undertake to raise the child of one of their fellow troupers who dies. Their task becomes more complicated when the child grows into a young woman, especially when Sally's (Joy Hodges) impending marriage to a rich young man (John King) is objected to by the young man's aunt. The aunt doesn't approve of her theatrical

Favorite Numbers Repeated

It is easy to understand why Mr. Lahr’s woodchopping number and Mr. Savo's presentation of “River

| yesterday.

| after

vaudeville

Stay Away from My Door’—both | presented in the charity show— | were such outstanding successes on | the stage. Joy Hodges demonstrates! a pleasing singing style in three | popular numbers.

This Is the Show That Is the Talk of the Town

“BETWEEN TWO WOMEN"

F'ranchot Tone Virginia Bruce Maureen O'Sullivan

At Your Neig

In "Love I'm After Production.

For a man who doesn't like movie | acting, Leslie Howard apparently was having wonderfui time when he | made “It's Love I'm After.” Tn fact, nearly as good a time as was had by | the audience that greeted the picture’s first showing at the Lyric |

At the beginning, vou may have a this-is-where-I-came-in feeling, | for it opens with the tomb scene | from “Romeo and Juliet.” But that | feeling disappears when you see Bette Davis, rather than Norma | Shearer, on Juliet's bier. And when you hear the stars’ muttered imprecations between the | Bard's immortal lines, vou feel that | |

the tragedy on the stage is nothing |

| to what will happen when the cur-

tain goes down, You'll Be Right

You will be right. For Mr. Howard and Miss Davis are a couple of ac-

| tors successful and in love, but tor- | mented by

those professional and | more intimate jealousies that beset | players on the stage within a stage. |

The plot's other principal ingredi- | {ent is Olivia de Havilland, a young |

miss in the throes of adolescent adulation. Impelled by hero worship. she visits Mr. Howard's dressing room and confesses her love. Later, | the stage stars have decided. | for the “steenth time” to marry, in| __ comes Miss de Havilland's fiance. | Nothing will do but Mr. Howard | {must come out for the week-end | and behave SO wretchedly that Miss |

A Picture re That's a WOW!

ENE SVE BETTE DAVIS Olivia DeHAVILLAND

“W's LOVE I'm After”

Triple Headliner Ss Revue!

CHICK ROSE YORK & KING

Direct From Broadway

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NBC SONG TRIO Cl STAFFORD & LOUISE JOE FANTON & ©O.

‘BAD MAN' GROWLS AT AIRPORT,

Bruce Cabot enjoys lunch at the Municipal Airport,

srrrh! Grrrh!

That's what one of the “bad men” of a

‘Bad Man of Brimstone”

(mew movie) growled as he stepped from a westbound plane at Muni

ipal Airport here yesterday

Then all of a sudden he forgot his movie acting. dropped hi:

and grimace and talked about the

Virginia. The actor was Bruce Cabot. “Do vou mind being hated?” “Ahhh! Just then also plays hero roles, and said in a goodfellow tone: “These bad-man

roles don't give me an inferiority

complex.” Behind Mr. Cabot's burlesque was the fact that he's on his way

to Hollywood to play for retakes

of his current picture.

(de Havilland will renounce him in |

bitter disillusionment. That's all

right, except that the more boorish | Howard becomes, | the young lady loves him.

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