Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1941 — Page 21
THURSDAY, JULY 1” Grace Moore . Sings ‘Manon’
Soprano's Cincinnati Debut Set for Sunday.
Times Special
CINCINNATI, July 17.— Grace Moore, popular soprano of the movies, radio and the Metropolitan, will make her Cincinnati operatic debut here next Sunday aft the Zoo .in “Manon.” Michael Bartlett, who sang opposite Miss Moore in the film, “Love Me Forever,” will sing with her in "Manon: snd Bartl also in the cas Michael Barllels 2/0 te Dororniy * Kirsten, Joseph Royer and. Nicola . Moscona. The performance will be repeated Thursday night. "The remainder of next week's schedule: Tuesday and Friddy — Verdi's “Aida,” with Rose Bampton in the . title role. Wednesday and Saturday — Puc- = ¢ini’s “La Boheme.” An Ohio girl, Ruby Mercer, who now is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Association, will sing her first role «in the performance. Also to be . heard are William Hain, Rose Ten- “ tone, Claudio Grigerio and Mr. Moscona. : : Performances start at 8:15 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). _ The rest of this week’s schedule: + ‘Tonight, Kirsten Thorborg and Giovanni Martinelli in- “Samson ‘and Delilah”; tomorrow night, . “Barber of Seville,” with Bidu Sayao, and Saturday night, Rosa "Tentoni and Mr. Bartlett in “La Traviata.”
“Irene” is to open the third wesk . of musicals at Louisville’s Iroquois Amphitheater next Monday night. Following a week’s run the Amphitheater will present “Three Waltzes,” “Rio Rita” and “The New Moon.” . “Irene” is currently being pre- - sented at the open-air Municipal Opera in St. Louis.
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ECONOMICAL
Lillian Cornell raises her own
VOI CE from the Balcony # by FREMONT POWER -
a good thing that even Bette Davis,
opens tomorrow at the Circle.
is to elope with Bandleader Jack Carson. James Cagney is hired to fly them to Arizona. But at this point Papa Pallette steps in and makes a deal with Mr, Cagney to turn Bette over to him at $10 a pound. As radios blare forth the details of the terrible “kidnapping,” Bette, and Mr. Cagney are forced down’ in a ghost mining town populated only by Harry Davenport, By this time Bette is getting a bit fed up with Mr. Cagney and tries to escape by fleeing into a mine: tunnel. But finally they get out, just as Bandleader Carson arrives by plane to claim his bride. Seeing that the marriage won’t be legal (since the marrying justice is out of his home state), Mr. Cagney lets them go through with it, confident that he’ll win Bette later. After all, she kissed him in the mine tunnel under the impression that they were spending their last few minutes on this -earth. So it's thus that Bette Davis goes Siapsiier. 8 b,
A Sad Goodby?
EXPLAINING why “The Big Store,” which opens tomorrow at
, Cagney,
AS WE WERE SAYING THE other day, slapstick comedy—just’ plain push-in-the-puss stuff—is making a comeback. It seems such
heretofore strictly a heavy drama
girl, tries some of it herself in “The Bride Came C. 0. D.” The movie
This is one of those wild, cross-country comedies in which about everything happens to the heroine but murder. Cast as the impetuous daughter of rich Eugene Pallett, who's about the best rich pappy Hollywood has, Miss Davis is persuaded’ to help Columnist Stuart Erwin pep up a lagging radio program. She
Tomorrow
CIRCLE~“The Bride Came C..
0. DD.” with Bette Davis, James Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette and Jack Carson. A musical, “San Antonio Rose,” will fill out the bill. It features Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Lon Chaney Jr., Shemp Howard (of the Three Stooges) and the Merry Macs, ‘swing vocal quartet heard on Fred Allen’s radio program. LOEW’S—The Marx ‘Bros. say
farewell to the movies in “The Big
Store,” featuring besides tHem,. Tony Martin, Virginia Grey and Six Hits and _a Miss, the radio singers. George Brent, Martha" Scott and Paul Lukas will be seen in the second half of the bill, “They Dare Not Love.” : 'LYRIC—“Wake Up, America” revue, starring Gil Lamb, will be. on the stage, along with the Twelve Singing Commanders and Lorraine West; the Dancing Cadettés; the Albins, comedy dancers; Claire and Hudson, acrobatic act, and the Banfields, experts at bouncing balls. The screen attraction will be “Paper Bullets,” with Joan Woodbury,
Loew’s, would be their last movie, spokesman Groucho of the Marx Bros. said their stuff was getting “stale.” They cauldn’t, he said, keep up the madcap pace and get away with it. I imagine there are a great many people who believe Groucho is wrong, just simply mistaken. And for them Groucho’s farewell will be a sad, one, because for sustained madness and speed, probably no other comedy team ever attained the Marx pace. Maybe the Ritz Bros. I don't know.
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Big Store” promises to be another wild and wooly picture. This time they're private detectives, captained by Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho). His professional identifications may give you an idea of what happens in that department store: “Private detective and bodyguard. Bloodhoundstransfused, fingerprints manicured and gin rummy.?} Margaret Dumont, for these many years the object of Groucho’s cash-conscious affections, owns a department store run by her brother, Tony Martin. She fears for his 1lif® and so puts the Marx detectives on duty in the store. The lain is Mr. Martin's store manager, Douglas Dumbrille. Well, it turns out that the Marx bloodhounds finally prevent a murder. Among the scenes which look like “sure things” is that one in which Henry Armetta brings his 12 children in to shop for a bed. And then there’s that one in which the Marx boys don roller skates and chase Killer Dumbrille ‘round and °‘round in the toy department. Meantime, Harpo plays a Mozart minuet on his harp; Chico's piano is heard in “I Want My Mamma” and Mr. Martin sings “If It's You,” for which Artie Shaw gets one-half the composer credit, and “Tenement Symphony.” It all 2hpeazs to be authentic Marxian tJ
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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES - Bette Weighs Delicate Issue
Apparently’ ~ Bette Davis is deliberating. at this point ‘whether to.slap Mr. Cagney or * just kill him. The movie, - “The Bride - Came C. O. D.” marks: Bette's ' debut as a slap- | stick _performer and it opens tomerrow at the Circle.
RECORDINGS
By Fremont Power
THE GOLD. STARS this time go to the vocalists.
Several of the
foremost performers are on new waxes, as the expression goes, and
among the highlights are:
BING CROSBY—He has two new platters, most unusual among them perhaps being Brahms’ “Lullaby,” with “You and I” on the flip-
over.
Lyric Headliner
Gil Lamb, Broadway musical comedy performer, will headline the new Lyric stage show, “Wake Up, America,” starting tomorrow.
revue will be Gil Lamb, of lastseason's Broadway musical, “HoldYour Hats.” On the screen will be a picture, “Paper: Bullets,” which has undergone considerable
Judged by Hollywood standards, this picture was made on a dime: Somewhere between $20,000. and $30,000, and with no big stars. But, according to trade paper reviews, “Paper Bullets” turns out to be first-class entertainment of its type. It was authored by Martin Mooney, the former bigtime crime reporter in New York. His story concerns three children and what happens to them after their release from a state orphanage. Jack LaRue becomes a gangster. Joan Woodbury . gets “in the rackets” after she loses -her factory job when it is learned that her father was an ex-convict. John Archer becomes an airplane designer. Tied up with this is the matter of crooked municipal elections.
Probably some shootin’, too.
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A DILLY-DOLLY DEFEN AGAINST THE BLUE
GIL LAMB
Star of Al Jolson’s Broadway Success ‘Hol ‘Hold Your Hots’.
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Both are lullabies and both soothingly neat, like Mr. Crosby can
make em. (Decca.) The other coupling is of the light swing ilk, “Be Honest With Me” and “Goodby, Little Darlin’, Goodby.” A bit of musical kidding is supplied herewith, the bouncy rhythm being by the John Scott Trotter Eight. (Decca.) THE INK SPOTS—This closely knit ensemble recorded a juke box record-breaker some time ago called “If I Didn't Care.” If you liked that one, then “What Good Would It Do?” will be right up your platter alley—low, dusky and moody. And melancholy gets no rest on the other side, “That's When Your Heartaches Begin.” (Decca.) CONNIE BOSWELL—“A Gay Ranchero” and “The Clock Song” are the current offerings by veteran Connie. But theyre a bit on the flimsy side. Songs with a more lilting swing are best for her. (Decca.) BEA WAIN—The “B” side on this one is best, “Peekaboo to’ You.” Bea has a chance to cut loose a bit—and so does some unidentified tenor sax man. The other one is from the movie, “Moon Over Miami.” It’s called “You Started Something,” in which Miss Wain does the best she can with a “fair” tune, (Victor.) THE ANDREWS SISTERS— One could have predicted without much risk that the good sisters would get around to doing “Daddy” before very much longer. But Sammy Kaye's is superior. The Andrews girls have done better. “Sleepy Serenade,’ more appropriate for this trio, makes up the other side. (Decca.) PEDRO VARGAS—Victor puts him in a four-record album called “Latin Favorites,” including the following titles: “Ay Ay Ay,” “La Golondrina,” “Siboney,” “Mi Viejo Amor,” “La Paloma,” “Adios, Mar-
iquita Linda,” “Estrellita” and “La
Borrachita.” Senor Vargas, of Mexico, has a pleasant tenor voice, but most people will want their Latin music a bit fierier than they’ll find it here. DICK TODD—Remember that old one, “A Little Street: Where Old Friends Meet”? The baritone king of the coin boxes does that one in a velvety. manner and then sings “Wasn’t It You?” in the same way for good measure. Both are fine, (Bluebird.)
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A Slow Down YY
Maybe it’s the heat, or perhaps it could be a trend. But whatever, it seems the swing bands are slowing down the tempo .a bit, as
‘you’ll notice in:
TOMMY DORSEY—A -lean-cut muted trumpet stands out in “Love Me as I Am,” from the Bob Hope movie, “Caught in the Draft,” and Frank Sinatra takes the vocal. The other side is a bit peppiér, “Nine Old Men,” which may or may not be about the gentlemen on the Supreme Court bench. (Victor.) JACK TEAGARDEN-—That standby, “St. James’ Infirmary,” is presented in an arrangement which. is new, if nothing else— even to the rhythmic handclapping. Flip it over and you hear “Black and Blue.” Here you get a trace of the “blues” on Mr, Teagarden’s trombone. (Decca.) BENNY CARTER—An unfortunately unidentified feminine vocalist does an excellent job) with “What a Difference a Day Made” and the band does likewise with: “Cuddle Up, Huddle Up.” Both rock, jerk and swing like jazz should. This one is’my pick of the lot, it you know what corny tes those reviewers have! (Bluebird.) JIMMY DORSEY — Somebody won't like my saying this, but “Isle of Pines” sounds like a sophisticated cow! song, only not 80 good. “Time Was” is a bit different, though; it’s about love at grade ‘school. Neither is knock-out stuff, which one expects to get from Mr. J. Dorsey. (Decca.) BOB CROSBY—Dixieland apparently has flown out the Crosby window and he sounds more like Tommy Dorsey every day, with perhaps‘a little different rhythm" pattern. And the maestro’s
course, will ae no. objections. Bob does the warbling in “Do You Care?” and Liz Tilton does it in “Will You Still Be Mine?” Despite all the aforementioned, both manage to hit the mark, and occasionally “then some.” (Decca.)
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Lanny Ross
Saturday.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 17.—Purdue University’s annual music festival will be held here Saturday, with the evening program featuring Lanny Ross the radio tenor. Mr. Ross will sing at 8 p. m. (daylight time) in the Purdue Hall of Music.
are the
be Charles LaBerge of the voice department of the American Conservatory; Esther Goodwin, Chicago contralto heard frequently in the Grant Park concerts, and Vassie Darnell, vocal coach who for many years was with the Chicago Civic Opera Co.
charge of instrumental and baton twirling contests, and Albert P. Stewart is festival director.
The Central Studios of Music in Indianapolis will be represented at the Purdue festival by Miriam Bosworth who was awarded. the trip for her high scholarship; Keith K. Shock, Mrs. Evelyn Steiner and Mrs. Kathryn Burns.
Marines to Give
HOLLYWOOD, July 17 (U. P.).— Charlie McCarthy, who faces a court martial by the Army Air Corps, has been informed that the
Marine Corps would come to his aid. The dummy charged with “double dealing” because he accepted a warrant as sergeant major in the Marines after he was made a master sergeant in the Air Corps. Gen. A. A. Andergrift, acting commandant of the Marine Corps in Washington, wired McCarthy that the slogan of the Marines, “Always Faithful,” would be observed in his case. What form the aid would take was not made clear.
WINNERS NAMED IN MUSIC CONTES
Mrs. Arthur H. Taylor, 5857 Gul ford Ave. announced today that
Radie Britain, Chicago composer, and Grace Becker of San Francisco are the winners in the contest sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota, national music sorority, for American-born composers. Mrs. Taylor is a member of the national committee. The prizes of $250 and $150 will he awarded when Sigma Alpha Iota holds its 24th triennial convention Aug. 9-13 in Los Angeles.
DELCO GROUP TO PICNIC
Employees and their families of the Delco Radio Division, General Motors, Kokomo, Ind. will hold a picnic Saturday at Riverside Amusement Park. Under the general chairmanship of Walter M. Wilson, Delco personnel manager, the affair will start at 10 a. m.
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WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE
“Moon Over Miami,” with Don Ameche, Betty Grable and Robert Cummings, at 12:40 3:50, 7 and 10.10. “x Young Lady,” with Jane Withers. ancy Kelly and John Sutton. at 11:20, 2:30, 5:40 and 8:50. ? LOEW'S
“They Met in Bombay,” with Clark Sable, and Rosalind Russell, at 12:35, 3:50, 7 and 10 ang in Washington,” with Herbert Marshall and Virginia Bruce, at 11:05, 2:15, 5:25 and 8:40, LYRIC
Phil Harris and Drahestra stage), with Pat Kay, Am & Arno, Paul Winchell ay the Billing. Jons, at 12:37, 2:36, 4:44, 6:52 and
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Ah! A Detective
' Being a detective in a depart-
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nite advantages, one of which Chico Marx discovers in this scene from “The Big Store.” The movie starts tomorrow at Loew's.
PRUITT STUDENTS TO GIVE PROGRAM
An informal program of piano music will be given by the students of H. Otis Pruitt, Jordan Conservatory teacher, at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in Student Hall, 1204 N. Delaware St. The public is invited. Those who will be heard include Warren Earle, Golden A. Smith Jr., Jois Sanders, Sam Ed Colvard, Joseph Zinkan, John Ayres, Betty Burckes, Virginia Ulrey and Judy Kinder.
STAR OF STAGE TO MAKE FILM
HOLLYWOOD, July 17. — Jack Durant will leave the cast of Pal Joey early next month to make a screen appearance at RKO in “Four Jacks and a Queen.” He is the second member qf the stage play to be signed for the picture. June Havoc is the other.
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Nine From Here Rehearse: With Youth Group.
LAGRANGE, Ind, July 17, «= Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, is currently rehearsing the recente ly organized Indiana Youth Orches=
tra for its public concert at 3 p. m, Sunday at the Limberlost music. camps. Formed to give young Indiana instrumentalists an opportunity to play under prominent conductors the orchestra will play, under Mr, Sevitzky’s direction, Du “Fanfare”; can Fantasy”; from Schubert's phony”; Strauss’ Danube’; opera, “Raymond, » and the “Star | Spangled Banner.” ig The Limberlost camps are los cated 40 miles north of Ft. Wayne,
the first movement “Unfinished Syms= “Beautiful Blue
on Oliver and -Olin Lakes. The
camps’ new orchestra shell .will be
dedicated during Sunday's concert, Mr, Sevitzky arrived here last
| | week-end from Canada, where he
conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in two performances, each heard by record summer audis ences of more than 6000. Prior to his arrival, the Youth Orchestra had been under the direction of Renato Pacini, assistant conderte master of the Indianapolis Syms phony Orchestra, since July 7. Included in the roster are the following from Indianapolis: Carol Doub, Fannie Myer, Janet Eckert, John Howell, Helen Dauner, Nors man Phelps, Audrey Michels, Done
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