Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1941 — Page 28

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1. U. Acclaims

Hizi Koyke

‘Japanese Diva Scores in "Madame Butterfly."

By DAVID MARSHALL Times Stall Writer

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 25.— | { Indiana University's campus was] buzzing anew today with talk of an | annual spring music festival after | { last night's splendid “Madame But-| | terfly” by the San Carlo troupe. | {The performance closed two days {of the first grand opera heard in| [the college's 120-year history. Puccini's tragic love story was #a imagnificent artistic and dramatic triumph for ‘Hizi Koyke, the lovely {Japanese diva, who sang Cho Cho San. Her tenderly poignant secondaria, “Un bel di vedremo,” brought her =a shower of applause from the nearly 2600 patrons and after

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A POWERFUL and mighty feud between the Lawd and the Devil was decided last night on English's stage, with Ethel Waters coming out as winner. She was on the side of the Lawd. The rollicking fight is called “Cabin in the Sky” ang it’s a ha-cha mixture of dice, deviltry and deep devotion. This and some doggone | making “The good boogie-woogie. Bad Man,” | Assembling a pinch of Negro lore, a sizable portion of sophistication | opening today | and brewing it with music that ranges from eight per bar to spirituals, at Loew's. The | Lynn Root wrote the slangy book and Vernon Duke the swingy music. a | There is a bold streak of the sweet simplicity of “Green Pastures” other feature | in this athletic comedy but mostly | will be “Cheers | it's of the stuff that made up for Miss | “Rhapsody in Black.” The idea of Sacred to Swing Bishop,” with | the fantasy, which has two nights | MR. DUKE’S music 'is made to

Martha Scoft | (yt good is better than evil. But The two spirituals, “Holy Unto and William | if you ask me, it was a mighty | the Lord” and “Dem Bones” may act Gargan. { close and hot race. seem strange stage mates to “Lazy The evil is provided amply by a | Steps” and “Boogy Woogy,” but hip-swingin eye-rolling vam- | You'd be surprised how the forpire, by name Georgia Brown | mula works out. There's even (Katherine Dunham). And, in- | “Fugue,” a vocal counterpoint in a cidentally, that woman can dance | the manner of Bach. 3 -s the final curlike a nervous snake. | Withal the music provides open- |§ % : tain, five calls > w w ings for some catching perform- | were punctuated ances. As the vacillating “Little | ; with some hearA Fatal Razor Joe,” Mr. Wilson gives a DB erfortn. fo ty ‘‘bravos’ SEEMS THAT “Little Joe” | ance that brought down the house, from the bal-i HOLLYWOOD, April 25 (U. PJ). (Dooley Wilson) gets rather sliced | and that's just what I mean. cony's upper|-—Joan Blondel, actress wife of Dick up in a crap game with fat John | When he and Ethel match dance reaches | Powell and mother of two children, Henry (J. Louis Johnson) and | improvisations in the opening And well did! has been informed that the Model slick Duke (Al Moore). Fact is, | Scene of the second act, the ap- she deserve Wives Club of America had chosen | Little Joe kicks off. plause literally stops the show theth all. Cho her “Model Wife of Hollywood.” i But his wife, Petunia (Miss Not since the appearance of Bill {Cho San is a role which calls] The award, announced by Mrs

Waters), does some powerful pray- | Robinson here in the “Hot Mi- | for the utmost in both dramatic and Charles Prentiss of Albany, N, Y vocal art. The singer is on stage was made on the premise that Miss | the entire opera and she Blondell “has made the most out- |

{ to go, plus a Saturday matinee, is | match.

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the a erside Amusement the summer seass | ing and manages to get Little Joe | kado” has there been available Workmen at present are slapping| a six months’ reprieve from the | such superb cutting-up. almost new coats of paint on the amuse- abode of Lucifer Jr. (Rex In- Mr. Wilson's is, one might say, {must portray everything from ap- standing success of combining a t devises and reconditioning the| gram). the major role and he imbues it |pealing cuteness to a tragic suicide. professional career with raising n : Inndscape John L. Coleman, presi- “He ain't at once with fun and pathos and | Not unjustly has she been ac- family : dent, said that all major rides, etc,| just weak,” Petunia pleads with | does it patly. 1 might as well say claimed as “ihe greatest Cho Cho . | : PENNY SINGLETON will be ready to go on opening day.| the All Mighty. And so Petunia’s | it: Mr. Wilson is a star, San of all times.” Her beautiful STUDENTS TO GIVE | os Blondie

Free admission, parking, checking| man gets another chance. The chief marquee attraction, [jyric voice was the only one which ARTHUR LAKE RECITAL SUNDAY |

and picnic facilities will be in effect] ‘The Lawd’s General in person | though, is Miss Waters and she had the necessary volume to carry throughout the auditorium’s vast-| : os Dagwobd | ness, | Students of the Central Studios of 0 A LARRY SIMMS ‘She’s Prectous’ | Music will appear in & monthly re- as Boby Dumpling A handsomely gowned woman at|cital at 8:15 p. m. Sunday in the 3 RUTH TERRY intermission summed up the audi-| Valencia Room of the Spink- 1 x |

wicked, Lawd; he’s THE BUMSTEADS

Starts Today First Showing Thru Sat $ in Indianapolis Johnny Mack Brown-—Fuzzy Knight Nell O'Day

‘BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE"

Where Did You Get That Girl? March of Time, Americans Ali Merry Melody, “Elmer's Rabbit Hot ON e Wire—World News el “orrest,

Open 10 2. m.

way that made her the queen of the field. The voice isn't what it once was but she'll send vou away whistling “Taking a Chance on Love” and the title number, “Cab-

general manager, and Frank A.| over weak Little Joe and despite | Holmes, director of promotions, are| the always-present Lucifer Jr. | announcing a full schedule of par-| Petunia's mate gets along pretty ties and picnics. | good. He even gets a job heaving |

{| sugar bags (so fast the boss con- | =". h | | siders laying off four men) and | ih in the Sky. And when she [ence’s

| Petunia starts “living like a lady.” | does “Love Turned Out the Light” [Rik That is, she doesn't have to do there are real tears wetting her | My 1 SONAR Jack Lovelace anybody's washing but her own cheeks, reminding one of her | While the rest of the cast failed Soprano, Jack DEI: a Things are going along fine un- Hagar in “Mamba’s Daughters {to approach her in acting honors, Beverly and Bobby Smith, pianists; tii ‘siren. ‘Georgia brances in ‘and and perhaps the torchy appeal of several of them were in good voice. Robert O. Hower, cornetist, and starts ‘Working Weilas | “Stormy Weather. Rolf Gerard as B. F. Pinkerton, the John Medjeski, violinist. Accomstarts working her wiles on poor Best of all about Miss Waters, [U. S. Navy officer, had trouble with | panists will be Pauline Bade, Olive 4 _ Through some Sort of however, is the good humor she |g rasping harshness in the upper Kiler and Anita Meggenhofen —— quick arrangement by Lucifer | casts upon the stage with her register but for the most part sang — HOME OWNED - MOME ‘OPERATED wins a sweepstakes. | ' ; So ul DR " § $ S S. | ‘mere presence. Tt's wonderful t0 [his role with the required virility.

¢ Ji Joe § Whereupon, he and Georgia 80 | wi \ " 2% itness Richar Jentwortt t} RIC F : | steppin’—and how they go step- | » » » Richiell | Went Wort wa it he w | pin’ , i - Pefunia's faith is broken If Hot and Fast

double role of The Bonzo, and YamALWAYS A GOOD SHOW Georgia can do it, sp can Petiinia THE DANCING assignment is

adori (suitor for Cho Cho San) } Y 1 { And so decked out in a red dress | left principally to Miss Dunham © |

again this season. Hersha! Parker,| (Todd Duncan) decides to watch | Can still project a blues song in a she Hotel

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Benny Goodman's \ ress was elbowed out Atlantic City High School! lub because her voice teachdeaf She Goodman when Artie down Mexico wa Little Joe.

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It is one of the peculiarities of cafe and does a bit of vampirin ducers didn't want to Kindle a : y ed conflagration early in the show) |the architect and accoustical enbut Miss Dunham makes up for €iheer attended last night's perit. formance to see just what is the all) and Petunia and her man end When She and her troupe do [matter that the male vbices are their days on this mortal earth | a vision for the sleeping Little muffled while the female singers are The next and final scene is at | Joe, buddy, you better move back ‘heard more easily. This was further the very stairway to heaven. Pe- | and clock your pulse. This danc- demonstrated by Charlotte Bruno as tunia stands in with the Lawd | er's artistry is purely primeval. Cho Cho San's servant, Suzuki, okeh, but Joe is on the wrong side " Ww | whose robust contralto fitted the of the ledger. It looks bad for | A Nice Devil (role nicely. him until it is announced that The single other

provided some of the better male singing. that'll knock your eves wacky, | One doesn't see much of her until Petunia comes to John Henry's | the second act (perhaps the proHarmony with Rhythm by Onc of Your

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Such is Mr. Root 's book,

NOT TO be overlooked, either, fs Mr. Ingram’s Lucifer Jr. and his vocal advice, “Do What You Wanna Do.” Mr. Ingram is the nicest devil I ever saw. And while the bouquets are being tossed out, here's one for Mr, Duncan, the Lawd’s General. Though he has had better opportunities to display his fine, strong

was Mario Vallee, who had the role (of Sharpless, the U. S. A 5, Ouhisul,

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