Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1942 — Page 6
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' String Four Plays Today
Jordan Quartet. to Give Recital at 8:30.
A string quartet recital will be presented by Adolph Schellschmidt. head of the cello department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, at 8:30 tonight. Members of the quartet are Mary Reynolds, first violin: Kathryn MecCain Walker, second violin: Doris Miller, viola, and Mary Alice Dilling, cello. The program follows: Quartet in D major op. 44. No. 1 Mendelssohn
Beldon Leonard ..Mark Walker
Quartet in F ‘minor oy Allegretto . .. Chieksbhiibele Birth to Death Suite ...... . % Adolph Schellschmidt Grieg ‘ pm mA <r NAMED DEFENSE DIRECTORS Clarence A. Jackson, state civilian defense director, today appointed Robert L. Shoulty, Bedford banker. and Oscar Baxter, Rising Sun, as defense directors in Lawrence and Ohio counties, respectively.
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Quartet in G minor
between Thelma Schnee Richard Waring in “The Corn Is Green.”
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| Coburn’s point somewhat. | are few “juvenile” actors and actresses on the professional, stage
Ethel Barrymore Arrives at English's Tomorrow Night
we VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS
' Doom of the Theater
Whnat helps make Mr. Coburn’s argument impressive is that 159 actresses, directors and Aherne
to Darryl F. Zanuck—appear to agree with him. He says the professional stage
| in America is sliding downhill because it has failed to develop new
talent to replenish itself. “Not since 1926,” he contends, the American stage pro-
female, to take the place of
time. “At the same time, never has there been throughout our country such widespread interest in the theater and never in any
| country has there existed so much
potential talent.” He paints the picture of thousands of youngsters dying to get
| on the stage, studying all phases
of tne theater, but finding no outlet for themselves outside of amateur stock companies which do not enable them to make a living. Unless suitable talent is permitted to reach the legitimate stage, he predicts, we shall have
| to depend upon England to supply | the
professional theater with young actors within 15 years.
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This Is Why
WHAT GOES ON HERE? It is simply, Mr. Coburn says,
{ that the professional theater has
neglected in America to provide
{ a training school for new talent. | It has people in many cases and down-
been hostile to young right discouraging in nearly all cases. | : Nowadays, unless a miracle happens. the youngster with ambition but little experience can't hope to get to first base as a professional, unless he’s gone to a university dramatic school. And even then he is not ready to be a professional because schools are content, he
manity abominably.” The young actor must spend endless, underpaid hours in summer stock or amateur groups. Then he must hang around stage
| doors until he gets a big part.
Observation will bear out Mr. There
under 30 years old. Nearly all of
| tne big names are over 35.
Outside of a college production, it is rare to see an actor in his
| twenties doing much more than | carrying
a torch in a Shake-
spearean play. One of the
youngest inter-
| preters of Shakespeare we have
in this country is Maurice Evans, who appears next month in “Macbeth.” and he is 39 years old.
WHEN DOES IT START?
CIRCLE
“Dangercusly They Live,” with John Garfield, Nancy Coleman and Raymond Massey, at 12:50. 4 7:10 and 10:20. “Lady for a Night,” with Joan Blondell, John Wayne and Ray Middleton, at 11:25, 2:35, 5:45 and 8:50.
INDIANA
“The Lady Has Plans,” with Paulette Goddard and Ray Mi , at 11:12, 1:57, 4:42, 7:27 and 10:12. “Nor the Klondike,” with Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine, at 12:47, 3:32, 6:17 and 9:02.
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“Mister V,” with Leslie Howard, Mary Merris and Francis Sullivan, at 10:30, 1:51, 5:12 and 8:33. “Lady Is Willing.” with Marlene Dietrich and Pr MacMurray, at 12:15, 3:36, 6:57 and 10. UNDAY—'M ya 1:5)
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“Song of the Islands,” with Betty Grable and Victor Mature, at 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05 and 10:40. - >, White and Perfect,” with Lloyd Nolan and Mary Beth Hughes, at 11, 1:35, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:30.
I AM IN RECEIPT of a pamphlet from Charles Coburn who is | unknown to me except by reputation as one of the leading university | dramatic coaches on the Pacific coast and I think you may be interested in his beef about the American theater. | Briefly, he doesn’t think there is going to be any American theater | after the next decade or two, unless said theater wakes up, sheds some | of its exclusiveness and finds new | talent.
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This Is How
WHAT'S THE ANSWER? Mr. Coburn thinks he has it. He wants a direct tie-up between
= the professional theater and dramatic schools in colleges and uni- * = 9
Pe uid like to see recognized 'G reen Co rn’ Here 3 Days
actors and actresses taking col- | Williams' Play Given
lege dramatic students into stock companies for training, with the London 800 Times. Ethel Barrymore comes to Eng-
stock experience serving as a major part of the dramatic {lish’s at 8:30 tomorrow night in the Emlyn Williams play, “The Corn
course. There would be one principal {Is Green,” which survived the aeri{al blitz on London and the New
objective of this tie-up: to graduate actors who would be com- | York critics. Performances will be given to-
petent to step upon the stage of a professional presentation and imorrow, Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon.
do a competent job. Mr. Coburn believes that college dramatic schools, and there is one at nearly every college and The play was first produced in London in September, 1938, with Mr. Williams in the role of Morgan Evans, a young Welsh miner who
university, operate in a vacuum as far as the professional theater aspires to wider horizons than his native mountains afford.
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is concerned. It is true that the closest the average dramatics student gets to the professional stage as a rule nowadays is the 55-cent seats in the second balcony. Mr. Coburn thinks that the hope of the American theater lies | in the development of new talent | hy close co-operation with university dramatic schools. Otherwise, he predicts, the | American theater in the next | quarter century will have reached a new low.
‘WILKINSON SENIORS | TO GIVE PLAY FRIDAY production which
Times Special " The play ran for 800 performWILKINSON, Ind, March 25.— ances in London and migrated i Wilkinson high school will present overseas to open in Baltimore and the senior class play “Missing! On® jater in New York in November, Pair!” Friday at 8 p. m. (1940. It ran continuously in New The cast includes Marvin Ben- vork until it went on tour last ‘nett, Phyllis Hutchins, Edythe Sim-| january. mons, Doyle Beatty, Lois Whiteman, i Patricia Lisher, William Wade, (Patty Addison, Loren Cupp, Augusta] Part of Mr. Williams’ auto(Goudy, Marvin Solomon, Benny | biography is recorded in “The Corn Cox, Bob Wright and Rosemary {Is Green” and the playwright not Wood. lonly acted in it but produced it as Assisting in the play mechanics well. Like his hero, he was born in are Robert Jones, Owen Barnett, Mostyn, Wales, in 1905, the son of Harold Barton, William Snider,/a miner, and was encouraged toJames Raley, Marybelle Broadwater, ward intellectual pursuits by a Pauline Hudson, Dorothy Brooks,!'sympathetic school teacher. Joe Brummitt and Ruth Thomas. She groomed him for the scholMrs. Fern Myers is directing the arship he won at Oxford univerplay. sity and from the time he saw his — (first play as an undergraduate, he CIVIL SERVICE JOBS OPEN has made the theater his business. Applications are being accepted To British and some American for civil service examinations for moyie-goers, Mr. Williams is known zone deputy collector at $1800 alas a player and adapter of scripts. \year working in the internal reve-| Members of the cast to open at nue department and for electro-|English’s tomorrow, in addition to plater’s helper at $1440 a year to Miss Barrymore. and Mr. Waring, {fill vacancies in the Searchlight | include Thelma Schnee, talented {mirror plant, Mariemont, O. Full young actress, Marcel Dill, Esther details of the positions and exam-|Mitchel, Charles S. Pursell. Gwyinations can be obtained from C. P./neth Hughes, George Bleasdale and Bernhart, 522 Federal building. | Edmond Breon.
800 London Performances
In the London performance, Dame Sybil Thorndike played the part of the English school teacher, Miss Moffat, which Miss Barrymore plays here. Richard Waring is cast as Morgan Evans in the American production which is presented by
Producer Son of Miner
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942
NEIGHBORHOODS
INDIANA CENTRAL TO OPEN RECITALS
The first in a series of spring re citals at Indiana Central college will be presented tomorrow night
By Frank Widner!
cavalry and one of the “machine guns on kiddy cars” kills Sergt. Beery’s horse. This feature will be in the neighborhoods this week at the Strand and St. Clair through Saturday, the Rivoli tomorrow through Sunday and the Granada tomorrow for a week’s run. It will be at the Speedway Friday and Saturday and at the Belmont and Uptown Sunday through Tuesday. » ” 2 ANOTHER new film this week with a little touch of Hoosier in it is “Remember the Day,” which opens at the Irving tomorrow through Sunday. The picture stars John Shepperd, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Douglas Croft, Ann Todd and Frieda Inescort. The Hoosier touch we mentioned is the playing of “Back Home Again in Indiana” when John Shepperd gets ready to accept the presidential nomination. This week-end the picture will be shown at the Daisy Sunday and Monday and at the St. Clair and Strand through Tuesday. 2 ® ” EARL CUNNINGHAM has booked the latest comedy by the “Three Stooges” for presentation along with the regular bill at the Fountain Square through Friday. The new comedy is titled “An Ache in Every Stake.” ” ” ” THE GENIAL new manager at the Emerson who has been rapidly acquainting himself with the patrons of the East Side theater is George Lewis who has had quite a varied experience with theaters. Before taking over his new duties at the Emerson, Mr. Lewis saw eight years service at the Oriental theater and previous to that was manager of the Avalon. He also has worked at the Indiana, Circle and Roosevelt theaters. Back in the days of the depressian, Mr. Lewis presented a weekly stage show at school 22 on the South Side for the benefit of the unzmployed. He was talent scout, stage director, master of ceremonies and jack-of-all-trades. A graduate of Manual, he was the first in a long line of footballplaying brothers. = ” ” IF YOU should happen to drop by the Rivoli tomorrow, stop in and offer a few best wishes to Don Wright, It's his birthday— he’s 29, s ” » THE MID-WEEK SCHEDULE:
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TWO OLD HANDS AT THE business of comedy are Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main who take the leading roles in “The Bugle Sounds,” the story of a tough top sergeant who doesn't like the idea of tanks taking the place of a faithful horse. So, you can bet the price of an admission ticket that things start to happen fast when mechanization comes along and wipes out the
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