Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1940 — Page 28

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"Trovatore,' Rigoletto, 'Aida’ Set in Chicago.

Times Special CHICAGO, Nov. 8—Two French operas and five Italian works are on the calendar of the Chi¢ago Opera Company's second week. Verdi will pe represented three times in the Italian group with per-

Jormances of “Il Trovatore,” “Rigoand a repea r Alden peat performance of The famous double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” | and | “Pagliacci” will start the week on Monday evening. 'Dusolina Giannini, Frederiek Jagel and Lydia Summers will - be ‘the principal singers in “Cavalleria,” while Helen Jepson, Giovan- | ni Martinelli and John Charles Thomas will form the triangle in ‘Pagliacci. Maurice Abravanel will conduct both performances. | “Carmen” is the Tuesday bill, with Marjorie Lawrence in the title part, and Jan Kiepura and George | Czaplicki in the principal male | roles, Henry Weber will preside over the orchestra. Paul Breisach, who has con- | ducted in Berlin and Vienna, will | make his American debut in the pit | for Wednesday’s# performance ' of | “Aida.” Zinka Milanov, Elsa Ze|branska and Messrs. Jagel and Thomas will be the pringjpals. | The

To those fortunate enough to strike up an acquaintance with them,

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dodging and other narrow escapes in German-occupied territory during the past summer. But for those citizens who know them only casually, the blond foursome is providing some fancy roller skating as part of the floor show in the Hotel Washington’s Sapphire Room.

MOVIES

INDIANA—“The Mark of Zorro,” with Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian; Also “Yesterday's Heroes,” Jean Rogers and Robert Sterling.

“The Mark of Zorro,” is a commentary on the decline of the male animal in the last 20 years. Some two decades ago the late

Douglas Fairbanks made this same film with as much gusto as tqday’s Superman. Feminine hearts beat wildly to his fervent wooing and winning. I can’t imagine today’s lovelies doing more than sighing a bit over -the sweet murmurings of Tyron Power's Don Diego. Small boys then rocked theaters with their cheers at Doug's dashing in, out of, and over buildings pursued by a dozen men each of whom was a giant in stature and seldom stopped short of murder. ° Mr. Power tackles no buildings, engages more than one swordsman but usually with outside help. And he rarely manages to get into as many tight fixes as Doug always did.

Presses Old Master

Once Mr. Power presses the old master for honors. That is when he ‘finally is cornered by Capt. Esteberr (Basil Rathbone) and the two of them go at it with the-foils. It's as pretty a piece of sword play since

Doug’s famous picture duels. Since Mr. Rathbone actually is quite a Hollywood blade, I suspect he taught Mr. Power the sword is

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HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 7 (U.|father, beloved of all the peons, has P.) .—Jeanette MacDonald leaves been replaced by the ruthless savHollywood today for 11 concert ap-iage Don Luis Quintero as alcalde pearances in the East and Middle! (agministrator.) West. She plans to complete the| pon Luis is a typical 19th Century tour and return to Hollywood for the | gangster—vicious when accompaholidays. Inied by his aide, Captain Esteban, The red-haired soprano will make | and his armed cutthroats, a quiverher first appearance on Armistice ing mollycoddle when alone. Day in Little Rock, Ark. Other! Don Diego’s parents, hoping their cities on her itinerary are Nash- son will champion the peons, are ville, Tenn., St. Louis, Muncie, Ind.,| disillusioned to find instead, a perCincinnati, Buffalo, Rochester and fumed popinjay, lover of scents and White Plains, N. Y., Hartford, Conn, | satins, horrified by so much as the Providence, R. I., and Boston. | mention of gore. Giuspeppe Bamboschek, conductor{ But Don Diego besides being a and composer, will be her accom-| brilliant swordsman also is a firstpanist for the third consecutive year. rate Thespian. His daytime Don

: A Diego is the negation of his nocDELOSS DONHAM turnal (and true) self. TO PLAY RECITAL

Then he steals the alcalde’s taxes, beats his men, robs the stagecoach, : : {and even on necessary occasions DeLoss Donham, organist, will be|yisits the alcalde himself leaving presented in zociia) at 4 3 Dau him a jibbering, incoherent hulk. ay In e Brookside Unite reth- More Terrifyin To Oly reh = ne MacGregor, Don Diego at Zorro! w whom he studies at Indiana " er a Central College. Assisting on the i hs Hr WOSnioDed silke Pisa Will be Robert Simpers, lovely ladies—including the alcalde’s

, : delectable daughter and vain wife. Mr. Donham’s offerings include pehind, Zorro leaves his mark, a music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Nevin, |«z slashed into walls, men’s backs,

Brahms, Bonnet and Boellman. MI. coach seats, and convenient woodSimpers’ solo groups list composi-| work, all of which is but little less tions of Bach, Kreisler, Sandby and terrifying than his masked, cloaked Aubert. figure.

DE MILLE STARTS AGAIN Finally, of course, he is caught

{and you're quite sure his end is not Having completed filming of |far off via the firing squad route. “North West Mounted Police,” Cecil{But he escapes again an of B. De Mille has started work on the course), restores his father as alscreen play of ‘Reap the Wild] | calde, marries Don Luis’ daughter Wind,” Saturday Evening Post story | land sends her father scooting from by Thelma Strabel. Los Angeles. Linda Darnell’s part calls for a pretty, dark, quiet juvenile. just come aware of young men. She is required to linger in the background until needed. She fits the requirements.—(D. M.)

RESUMES DOOMED ROLE

After a lapse of three months, William Boyd will resume his part in the “Hopalong Cassidy” feature, “Doomed Caravan.” The picture title | proved prophetic when the actor {suffered a fractured leg as his horse {fell during the first week's filming.

SAME IN' TWO PICTURES

Director and leading man are the same in two new Hollywood productions. John Cromwell is the megaphoner on “Victory,” starring Fredric March and Betty Field, and on “Flotsam,” which has Mr. March and Margaret Sullavan in top parts.

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RECORDINGS

By JAMES THRASHER

Bach, “The Musical Offering”; Yella Pessl. harpsichord; Sylvan Shulman, first violin; Harold Kohon, second violin; Louis Kievman, viola; Alan Shulman, cello; Frances Blaisdell, flute; Robert Bloom, oboe; Albert Goltzer, English horn; Benjamin Kohon, bassoon (Victor). ONCE UPON a time the greatest musician of his day dispatched

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. The distinguished name of Robert! E. Sherwood and the equally famous title: of his play, “The Petrified Forest,” are expected to keep the Civic Theater box-office forcé busy tonight and through next Wednesday, when the second Civic pro-

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to close. - Mr. Sherwood, author of “The. * Road to Rome,” “Reunion in Vien- | na,” “Idiot's Delight” and “Abe! Lincoln in Illinois,” is one of the! few playwrights with a successful! serious play on Broadway in this! generally frivolous season. .It is! “There Shall Be No Night,” which! is to play at English’s next month. | As for “The Petrified Forest,” it! was a hit on both stage and screen, with Leslie Howard playing the part | of Alan Squier in both versions. This | part will be taken in the Civic pro- | duction by Ned LeFevre, a veteran | of many Civic and Federal Theater productions. Gloria Geddes, who formerly lived | here and is now a resident of Los Angeles, will play Gaby Maple, a| part’ taken by Peggy Conklin on| Broadway, and Bette Davis in the | movies. Miss Geddes’ visit with! friends in Indianapolis happily coincided with the casting of the Sherwood play, and she was persuaded to make another appearance on the stage where she had been seen to advantage as a member of the Civic forces. Gramp Maple and his son, Jason,

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one of the magnificent examples of his genius, with a servile dedication, to an amateur flute player. The work was Johann Sebastian Bach's “Musical Offering.” And the amateur flute player was Frederick II of Prussia. (The surname of The Great which posterity has bestowed upon Frederick had nothing to do with his proficiency on

“The Musical Offering” grew out of Bach's only visit to Potsdam,

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will be played by John Ray Newcomb and Garrett Olds. Other cast members include Aubrey P. Cullen Jr.. Robert Schwomeyer, William | Tedrowe, Mary Lou Pyle, Harold | Green, Harry V. Wade, Winifred | Wkrme, Ford Kaufman, Sidney Sanner, Harry Latham, Earl Davis, Ed-

the flute.) 1 1 Gay 90s’ Star when he was 62. Frederick asked Bach to improvise upon the new ; SE keyboard instrument called the pianoforte, and provided him with a theme. Bach obliged with a three-part fugue. Upon his return home he wrote and had published 10 canons, a trio sonata and a six-part “ricercar” (fugue) all based on the royal theme. Also included in the volume was the fugue. which he improvised at Potsdam. The music is a consummate unjon of science and_ inspiration. Listeners with a musical educa= tion will be astounded at the pil= ing up of one intricate feat upon another. But these feats are achievements of effortless mas= terv. And the listener who loves Bach for emotional content rather than structure will not find his portion of enjoyment skimped. The present adaptation is by Dr. Hans Theodore David, who also has provided the album with a booklet of scholary and informative notes. And the performers bring to their task not only accuracy, but a warmth of expression and understanding. Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A Minor; Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor). THIS, AT LEAST for the moment, is Mr. Rachmaninoff’'s most recent major work. (A set of Symphonic Dances is scheduled for a first hearing in Janunary.) Completed four years ago, it may he considered an exposition of the composer-pianist’s maturity of thought and expression. Mr. Rachmaninoff remains aloof from the unrestricted tonalities of contemporary writing, for such is his nature. « However, his harmony is always original and tasteful, which is better than being merely daring. The A Minor Symphony exhibits the rich and somber colors and the elegiac melodies which are hallmarks of the Rachmaninoff style, It is dramatic and colorful music. In fact, Mr. Rachmaninoff exhibits here more sense of color than of form, The work is diffuse, and seems to me to lack the character of a symphony, if that isn’t ' being too pedantic. There is neither economy of material nor of expression. The music seems more characteristic of the “soundtrack” style of incidental film music than of the symphony. While the work’s spirit is of per-

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Fugue; Egon Petri, pianist (Columbia). : ONE MIGHT SUSPECT that Mr. Petri's enthusiasm for this

composition grows as the music progresses. The Prelude is somewhat matter of fact, the Chorale is less arid, and in the Fugue this admirable pianist really warms to his task and lavishes his full power of persuasive playing on this worthy and well-loved score.

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“Imagination,” popular song hit, has been signed to write tunes for “Love Thy Neighbor,” the forthcoming Jack Benny and Fred Allen comedy.

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