Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1941 — Page 6

yoIve from: the Balcony by FREMONT POWER |

lives its movie version. I can. cite at the moment. Road” was a mighty

THE TIMES wien a stage production outs In fact, “Tobacco Roa” is the only exampld. Of course, the Hollywood “Tobacco thin. article and it just up and died a natural

didn’t present a fair case. | ppin’ ” vers likely is a, better example. Unless the movie Verswen, as yeu unreleased, is.a whopper—and ‘who knows?—this maa‘cap creation of Olsen.and Johnson may be going for many a year

after : This Wohnson (and the Shuberts) it's become a big and still-growing business. I’ ‘use the. ogi “big business” advisedly, ‘there's. Just what it-is.-Every time. I get the nose out of the typewriter, ‘Phere is aner “He ppin’ ” press agent standing at the desk: r Thady to say his piece.” The revue . too, who does nothing but sell’ “tieup” advertising. And thereé’s also an accounting department. . There is the “Hellzapoppin’” troupe, featuring Billy House and Eddie Garr, which comes to . English’s tomorrow night. Then ‘there’s the one stationed in New York, with Happy Felton as the *big name.” - i And then ‘there’s the new ver- : gion, “Sons o° Fun,” with Olsen and Johnson in person, which is playing now in Boston. This one . Was to have been in New York by now, I believe, but the way the staid Boston folk have unlimbered, both financially: and emotionally, it is now a question whether the revue should be moved out of there soon or not. ” ” 3

Come Early = .

AS TO the ‘troupe which comes here tomorrow night, there is not

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the movie has been put back: intg the storage cans for keeps. revue has become a national by-word, and for Olsen and

a great deal new-to be wid. The stars are’ Messrs. House ands

‘Garr, the same who: were here with-it last yéar.

The huisiness was “capacity” at ‘that time iand Manager Vincent Burke of 1 's. sadly relates “hundreds were. turned

away.” From. the No. 3 press

‘agent who’ called at this station,

we learn that the show has un-, dergone considerable elaboration. But perhaps the most pertinent information (to be handed out at this time is that you ‘should come a bit earlier ‘than . usual. Curtain time on this one will be

*8:15 o'clock, instead of 8:30, for

the simple reason that it iS a long show. In fact, the final monkeyshine probably won’t be executed until about 11:25 p. m.'

In the meantime, there will be |

committed some of the most outlandish didos ever seen in English’s, which in its long life has housed some very, very “straight” drama. ” » 2

No Pause

MOST EVERYONE knows by now that “Hellzapoppin’” utilizes the talents of the ‘audience as well as the performers. Eighteen comely chorines, we are assured, will come down from the stage about 9:30 o'clock and #lo the “Boomps-a-Daisy” dance with as many of our -local citizens. Stooges willl be planted all over the house. You must: think noth- . ing of it if the composed-looking gentleman - sitting next to you

suddenly leaps up and -in strong .

language berates the whole troupe and stomps out. That's simply the way | “Hellzapoppin’ ” is operated. The customers arén’t even allowed to relax during the intermission. Some of the choicest

; gags of the evening, in fact, will

be perpetrated upon the audience at this time. “Hellzapoppin’ ” is like no other

| tomorrow,

Ben Hawkins ++ « he’s known as the Fiprida Hash) f J

wy to Hear Two Banels

Coming to Indiana Roof and ‘Southern Mansion.

Indianapolis will be host to two dance band attractions tomorrow

night when Buddy Fisher's Mu~

sical Clowns put in at the Indiana Roof and Will Osborne: comes to the Southern Mansion. Mr. - Fisher puts emphasis on comedy and showmanship, as well as dancéable music, and his “show within a band” includes such performers as “The Four Funny Ozarkians,” Ben Hawkins, “the Florida flash,” and Gypsy Edwards. The band will be at the Roof Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Osborne stand at the Mansion tomorrow is for one night. | Creator of “slide music,” Mr. Os- | borne, claims he is the only band leader - who ‘holds ‘a United States

patent on a musical style.

He explains ‘slide music” like this: : The style is built around three trombonists who slide from one register to another without squarely hitting: any of the intermediate notes, thus producing . a glissando tone. The same effect is used with the

| trumpets.

[Society Turns. Out in “Furs

And Diamonds.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (U. P).—| |

The Metropolitan Opera opened ‘its 57th season last night, and never were the pearls, the diamonds, the titles and the furs more plentiful. The opera was Mozart's “Marriage . of : Figaro,” lighten the atmosphere of wartime, and a break of opening night tradition. because it was a comedy.

.1 The orchestra opened the perform-

ance with Banner.” Four thousand persons saw: the opera—500 of them standees, happy

. “The Star-Spangled

a comedy to]

to have paid $2.20 when they had| &

expected to pay $3 each. Hundreds

jammed Broadway and 39th St. to watch society arrive.

Procession Starts Early

The procession started 30 minutes before curtain time. Limousine after limousine pulled up, and from them stepped men in top hats and tails, and women in evening gowns, jewels and furs. The spectators got their first glimpse of diamond tiaras when Mrs. George Washington Kava-

| naugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Le-

onora H. Warner arrived. Lady Decies additionally wore = diamond

earings and a diamond necklace

that reached her waist. : - Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt was late. She wore a coral lame gown and a red velvet coat with a silver

fox fur collar, a silver bandeau over

her hair, and ropes of emeralds|

and diamonds around her neck, The titled included Marquis and Marquise George de Cuevas and the Duchess de Tallyrand.

Bar Packed

The first of the standees in line before the box office was Geneviéve I. Muss, a Waterbury, Conn, stenographer. «She gave up two "days of ‘her symmer vacation so she could attend the evening, then overslept yesterday morning and didn’t arrive at the opera house until 7 a. m.

with a folding stool, an umbrella,

a flashlight and smelling salts. None was ‘ahead of her, but 300 seeking standing room: last night were turned away. The bar was so packed during the first intermission that. many did not get back in: time for the second act curtain, and sat! it out at their tables, drinking champagne and brandy. The cast included: Ezio Pinza as Figaro, Bidu Sayao as Susanna, Elizabeth Rethberg as the cour*--c Rise Stevens as Cherubino, John Brownless as Bartolo, an. Petina as Marcellina.

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Evans Tops, Critic Says

Hailed for Performance in Macbeth.

By JACK GAVER {United Press Drama Editor NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—There

of a play by Shakespeare which does not have Maurice Evans in a leading role and Margaret Webster as its director. They are so far ahead in this field that there is not the slightest suspicion of competi-

Their latest joint effort is “Macbeth,” a joy to:the ear and eye and a chill to the spine; a worthy successor to their “Richard II” and “Henry IV,” in which Evans triumphed ' in the vastly dissimilar the elderly, - roistering, lecherous Falstaff. It is begging the question to say that the man’s range is astounding. I would like to repeat my ‘belief that he is the world’s outstanding actor in or out of Shakespeare and I would noi even attempt to select the second ranking player.

Effect Is Startling The - canny Miss Webster | Das

as does every -director of a Sh: speare play, and the result is 4; fast-moving tale of murder which should appeal even to those who profess ' a dislike for anything

One ‘thing’ “you ‘can be pretty cer-

actors who can, or can be trained to, read the blank verse so that it means something and doesn’t sound : like a series of recitations “Familiar Quotations.”

The handling of the scenes with the witches is an outstanding feature of this production. There have been deletions to keep them from becoming tedious and the pictorial

inal twist in Macbeth’s second interview witk: the unholy three—the scene is presented as a dream

lapses into uneasy slumber at the end ‘of the unhappy banquet where the homicidal king is terror-strick-en at the appearance of Banquo’s

ghost. Banquet Is Highlight

Incidentally, this banquet scene, a tremendously difficult one. to

tion of it I have ever witnessed. Evans does not miss'a mood in

you are in the theater you

scious ‘not of watching Maurice

desire for power. n, one of our forewere ‘ times in minor spots where but in big scenes, especially the

sleep-walking sequence, superb.

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roles of the weakling Richard and].

‘|the Valley,” a sequel by Richard Llewellyn: to his “How Green: Was].

effect is startling. There is an orig-|’

play, is a highlight of the produc-|" tion and by far the best presenta-| ¢

Evans but only of seeing the dis-{ integration of a man ruined by the

In the role of Lady Macbeth is| ‘Judith Ande most dramatic actresses. ‘There|

her playing seemed a trifle uneven, | she was||

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from Manhattan,” ;

- | “Ive seen a lot of titles: change

‘| est’ effort he ever made to attend

Sneak

Manager Rex Carr ssid today that there would be a. “sneak preview” of a new movie at his Alamo Theater next Thursday night, about. 9 o'clock. And that's about all hed | say, except that the show won’ -be released through regular channels until. February.

Selectee Knits Olivia*Sweater

—-Many film people have knit sweaters and other - articles.’ for men in military service. The tables were turned the other dey when Olivia De Havilland received a sweater knit by Pvt. Harold : Chucker, .a : six<foot, 200~ pound selectee from Minneapolis Slaiioned at “Camp Haan, Rivercle.: Miss De Havilland, a Yepiuries with" knitting needles, is working on a pair of socks and promised they would go. when finished to | Private. Chucker.

20TH CENTURYFOX BUYS 'VALLEY MEN!

: HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 25.—“Men of

U |My Valley,” has been: purchased by =120th Century-Fox. The story still is in outline form and Llewellyn, who is now in Eng= land, will prepare it for publication befose its adaptation to the: ser probably as a vehicle for W: Pidgeon and Maureen O’Hara, who spprered in the first part.

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 25 (U. BJ.

awarded the: title: “America’s No.| letic Foundation,

of the nation ‘and. found. ‘that. Brown had spent more time In following varied sports activities “than any other individual’: =

hands and cups handed out for performances,” said mn “byt I never expected to. get a medal 1 myselt for. just being a wit-| ness to such things.” ‘Brown said he believed the great-|

a sports eve t: was: when he went to the $100,000" Santa Anita Handi-cap-in a wheelchair. ; : The actor received the award and a medal at a luncheon attended by

ers. He was’ introduced by Actor Pat O’Brien.

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