Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1942 — Page 18
VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS
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he of most citizens to the news that the
Uetropolitan of New York, world's greatest opera company, was bringing Verdi’s “Aida” to Bloomington April 13 was:
; AS I GOT IT, the
| “Just think, the Me opera’ company, is bring Everybody seems to be 1 do not wish to detract from the significance of this event—or
the fact, either, that the Metro--
litan Opera Co. has discovered
iia Ope or vice versa. It is #4 triumph for both parties. | It is simply that I am not enlertained by a bunch of roly-poly guys wandering around the stage with tin spears, tin shields and fin hats singing stuff in ian, French, German or S that I can’t understand.
The Menace of Hats
' THE MUSIO, of course, is deluxe. _ There is an overture to begin with an that is very pleasant to listen
ont as the curtain goes up on a lavish scene, two women glways come in late and breathless and ~ proceed to get situated rectly in front of me. | From there on, ceiling 1s zero because I am no giant and these ladies are wearing hats which ‘took them 35 minutes to pit on land which they are not going to ‘remove for some squirt with a $1.10 ticket. ‘Well, I finally manage a spot between the lady’ ‘shoulder and the right ear of the . gent sitting next to her and I get a view of the stage which is, simply terrific, loaded down {with scenery like 3 museum. § Noisy Tryst | PRETTY SOON, a stout lady in jong robes and a blond wig starts singing and waving her Arms around and that brings a guy in the uniform of one of King Arthur’s’ knights running out | brandishing a sword with| six other guys after him. He duels with the six guys, but he is no D’'Artagnan. etty | soon he gets wise to himself, and | ducks out the other end of] the stage. The six guys utter a paen | of triumph, grab the fat lady with |'the blonde wig and hustle her off | at the other end. ~The curtain drops and the adic | ence begins fanning themselves with handkerchiefs and programs A few studious opera-lovers read over thé printed matter which | tells what has just happened.
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‘Aida’ to Bloomington April 13.”
The next scene turns out to be a garden back of a castle and the lady with the wig is sneaking out the postern gate to meet the boy friend. Seems like her lord and master is out hunting somewhere. It is supposed to be a quiet tryst, so to speak, but here this blond lady and the gent are singing to one another at the top of their lungs. In rushes a maid who, you gather, is warning the lovers that the old man is coming home from the hunt. Immediately, the singing gets louder and the lovers sing long solos t6 one anothér. You are wondering when our hero is go= ing to duck or what, At the last minute, he trips over a fake rose bush and the old man is on him. There is a duel and just as our hero is getting the best of the lord of the castle, someone sneaks up and stabs our hero in the back. That's just the first half. You can go out for a smoke,
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The Third Hour MY MAIN difficulty with opera, outside of not knowing what is going on, is that the air is always stale and the seats get hard. For the first hour, it’s all right,
because usually you wait in line far a long time to get in. But after that, I begin to squirm and move around in my chair and the lady beside me opens her eyes and glares and four people two rows up in the "$2.20 seats turn around and make “Shhh.” It is during the third hour that I always wish I had brought a sandwich. I never have the courage to bring one, although the Italians used to take their opera with sandwiches even at La Scala. But you can't sell that sandwich and soft-drink idea to opera’ lovers around here. . You'd get murdered, artistically and. intel lectually, not to mention thrown out physically. So I am hungry. And I need a smoke, I need a drink. I need fresh (air. And this fellow on the stage thinks he’s dying.
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"Arsenic and Old Lace" By this time, the story of “Arsenic
and Old Lace” has become fairly well-known,
How two elderly and refined
ladies who reside in a shady lane in Brooklyn operate a rest home for elderly and lonely gentlemen. They put the gentlemen to rest permanently with a dash or arsenic.
As the corpses pile up in the
cellar, the ladies lose count and the direst of all complications develops. The ladies can’t remember whether there are 12 or 13 victims.
There is a nephew who imagines
himself to be the late Teddy Roose~ velt; another who helps the sisters in their work who has his face lifted each time a victim is knocked off, not to mention a fairly sane dramatic eritie. °
.‘The cast includes Laura Hope
Crews and Effie Shannon, Eric von Stroheim, Jack Whiting, Orr, Henry Sharp and Angie Adams.
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Joseph Kesselring wrote the
comedy which was produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, the men who adapted “Life With Father” to the stage.
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"The Corn Is Green" Ethel Barrymore, as Miss Moffat,
the visiting English schoolmistress, returns to Indianapolis in Corn Is Green.”
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Emlyn Williams, one of the most
prolific of between-the-wars English dramatists, is the author, The
setting is a town in Wales and the plot is partly autobiographical.
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1 Miss Ethel Barrymore makes sa entrance in “The Corn Is Green.” The time: About 1890. The
place: A small village in Wales.
2. The gents who are escorting Angie Adams somewhere are Erich von Strohelm and Henry Sharp who do the bioodcurdling in “Arsenic and Old Lace.” It plays at English’s March 17 and 18, followed by “The Corn Is Green,” March 26, 27 and 28, and “Watch on the Rhine,” April 6, 7 and 8.
NEIGHBORHOODS
THE HUMOROUS STORY of the irritable and spoiled literary lecturer, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” and who stayed six months, is what neighborhood theater fans can look forward to this week. Opening in five theaters (two of them for an entire week's run), the picture tells of the lecturer, played by Monty Woolley, who also took the lead in the Broadway play, who came to Messalia, O., to
deliver a speech only to fall and injure himself. From then on he proceeds to make life miserable for all. With Mr. Woolley in the film, you will see Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante and Reginald Gardiner. It will be at the Granada for a week beginning tomorrow, at the Vogue for a week beginning today, at the Irving and Rivoli tomorrow through Sunday and at the Zaring tomorrow through Saturday. The Belmont and Speedway will show the picture through Tuesday. ” o » ANOTHER NEW SHOW this week is “Confirm or Deny,” a story of the manner in which war correspondents get their news stories over the cables to their home offices. With Don. Ameche as a correspondent in London during the
frightful September of 1940, you'll
find out just what happens when a reporter gets a hot tip on an
"invasion attempt and has a leased
cable all set up to flash the news. Besides Mr. Ameche, there are Joan Bennett ag a Britisher and Roddy McDowall as a lookout boy, “Confirm or Deny” will be at the St. Clair through Saturday and at the Rivoli and Irving tomor-
Mr. Williams was born in Wales, |
in the village of Mostyn where his father was a grocer. Like Morgan Evans, leading male character in
the play, Mr. Williams spoke no
English as a child. As in the play, he came into contact with an English schoolteacher who stimulated his interest in the world beyond the Welsh mountains. In this play, Miss Barrymore returns to a part on her own age level. In her last tour, she played the 101-year-old matriarch in “YWhiteoaks.” As the teacher, she is subjected to the prejudices of a small, mountainbound village, in her attempt to help Morgan Evans, the young Welsh miner, to rise above simple village life. The miner is played by Richard Waring. Thelma Schnee and Edmund Breon are in the cast. The play had a successful run in London up to the all-out blitz attacks of December, 1840. . o os t 4
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anti-fascist play, “Watch on the +Rhine,” will appear here with the original cast, headed by Lucile Watson, Paul Lukas and Mady Christians. : The play, presented by Herman Shumlin, is coming directly from its 47-weeks run at the' Martin Beck theater, New York. It has received the New York Drama critics’ prize for the, best American play of 1941. . Said to be the most successful of the anti-fascist plays yet produced on Broadway, “Watch on the Rhine” played a special performance in Washington for the infantile paralysis benefit. Paul Lucas, as Kurt Mueller, underground worker against Hitler, was voted as having given the best performance of the year by the critics in Variety's annual pool. dog 2 setting is the comfortable estate in Maryland pear Washing‘ton to which an erican woman returns with her German husband and three children after 20 years in Europe. Miss Hellman did not need any Nazi uniforms to get the
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