Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1945 — Page 4
mammoth trailer truck.
Shepard Traube, producer of the Patrick Hamilton play that ran thre¢ and a half years in New York, obtained ODT permission to
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"to Open 4-Day | "Rin On Murat Stage Jan. 23.
The gloomy Victorian setting and furniture for “Angel Street,’ opening a four-day run at the Murat Jan, 23, will be unloaded from a
motorize the touring show.shortly before V-P day. As a result, the actors =
~ travel in & big “airport” type limou- - sine while the -equipment goes by truck. The company has thus been able to plan an ambitious 47-week tour throughout the United States} and parts of Canada. Brought to Indianapolis by, Cecil | Byrne and Sidney Page, “Angel Street™ is an intense psychological | drama of the gaslit era. Concern- |
ing 8 husband's attempt to drive charges growing out of a ballroom | his wife insane, it makes big de- altercation with a police officer ‘last
mands on the cast. Original Cast Local theater-goers will be for-|
Ca
In Court Hearing
KANSAS CITY, Mo ) —Cab,
P. | leader,
week -end . Calloway, appearing in police {court yesterday, and Felix Payne
Jr, son of a Kansas City Negro
lloway Freed
Dec. 29
Calloway, absolved
was today
(U Negro band of |
tunate enough to see the play with | politician, both were found innocent
its original New York personnel. Other Byrne-Page scheduled for the Murat include] Lauritz Melchoir, leading Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, | Jan. 13; Paul Draper, tap dancer, |
Payn
|on three courts of drunkenness, reattractions | sisting arrest and creating a pub lic disturbance Municipal Judge that evidence was insubstantial. ~
e and the “king of hi-de-ho”
Earle Frost held “conflicting” and |
and Larry Adler, harmonica vir-|were arrested late Saturday after a tuoso, Jan. 27; Tito Guizar, tenor, tussle which developed when they and Pan American revue, Feb. 8; allegedly were denied entrance tol
“Carmen Jones,”
of Bizet's “Carmen” Feb. 10 another Negro orchestra leader, was through 13; Dr. Neff and his mad- | | playing at a dance “for whites house of mysteries, Feb. 19 and 20; [only.” Sigmund Romberg, composés-plan-| Testimony during the hearing ist," Feb. 28, and the Charles Wag- showed that Calloway and Payne ner production of Flotow’s opera, had purchased tickets, not with the | “Martha,” March 28 intention of dancing. but “as cusI — stm etn jtomary” in the profession, to -hoost ZAWISZA 10 VISIT the percentage take of Hampton who had invited them to hear hi
all-Negro version |& ballroom where Lionel Hampton,
MURAT CONCERT. orchestra
Chief Warrant Officer Leon Zawisza, former concertmaster of the | Indianapolis symphony orchestra, and Mrs. Zawisza will attend the orchestra's concert in the Murat | temple at 8:30 tonight. On leave from the army, Mr Zawisza is visiting Indianapolis
| &
the Southwest Pacific for several (her newly years, Mr. Zawisza was recently ap- |salary would
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Clock ENGLISH Counters Maritza,” operetta, at 2.30 ar KEITH'S “Adventure of Rusty.” with Ted Ne Tout 1208, 246. 529 7 39, J 49 1 i 9 “Vaudeville stage show, at 118, 48 6 44 4 and 1104 sunday Adventures of Rusty at 1 3 30 5 51, T -and 917 Vaudeville stage show at 3 18, 4.45 and 7 . CIRCLE 2
“This Love of Ours,” with Merle
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Pranchot Tone, Susanna Poster and Louise Allbritton, at 11, 2:14, 5.38,
842 and 11.56 Sunday—“This Leave of Ours,” at 100 413, 717 and 10 at. at 11:45,
Tat Night With You,’ 24 » 53 and 8 57 © INDIANA “Stork Club,” with Betty Hutton and Barry Pitzgerald, at 13.35, 3:48, 6 50 and 10
“Follow That Weman,” with Wil.
Ham GCargan and Nancy Kelly, at 11°25. 235. 5 40 and 8:60 Sunday ‘Stork Club" at 1.14,
409, 707 and 1008,
“Fellow That Woman,” at 13.08, 3, 5.58 and 8 56 LOEW'S “Yolanda and the Thief.” with
Pred Astaire and Lucille Bremer, at 12:24, 3.36, 6.48, 10:03 and 1:1 “Life With Biendie,” with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake, at 11, 2:13, 5:34, 839 and 11M
Sundgyy-"Yolanda and the Thief,”
et 12.10, 3.22, 6.37 and 9.52 “Life With Blondie,” at 1:58, 513 and 8 28 LYRIC
“It All Came True” with Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan, as 1232, 348, 704 and 10:20 ‘Always In My MNeart.” Jith Jeftrey Lynn-and Zasu Pitts. af 11 216, 532 and 8.48,
Sanday—"It All Came True,” at 1232 348, 704 and 1020 ‘Always in My Heart,’ st 2.16,
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