Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1945 — Page 6

' Brother Tired of Denying

‘Bing's S "Alive,

* public, stop killing off Bing Crosby. ‘Brother Larry's getting desperate

‘the Crosby clan. So he's the lad

few days and he never tells us when

Very Much So

Crooner's Death By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Duited Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31.—Please,

enough to use any means—shogt of a shotgun—to get a little sleep. _Larry is the official spokesman for

who's been getting hauled out of

business, as they must be hurting |

audience to see “Countess Maritza” - | was disappointingly small, | That's unforunate. The operetta fwas well presented, with all of the| {zest that the same company showed | jin “Rose Marie” earlier in | week. It was certainly worth park-| {ing (overtime, illegally, opposite the | Spink-Aims) and walking to. |

Comedy Well Done

Robert Montgomery, starring in

“They Were Expendable,” ing today at Loew's.

open-

bed these nights to deny rumors of | Bing's death. Bing's okay, but it's killing Larry. “I can't convince ’em,” he declared. “I keep saying that Bing is not dead: he is not dying, and he isn't even sick. I'm on the phone all day. And the minute I get te sleep at night it rings again. And it keeps on ringing until dawn.”

He had the number changed. but Aldrich Play. Olivette had previously done. fine it got out again. - oo | work in “Rose Marie Brother Larry talks himself blue = THE CAST . With a Kalman score. the most in the face. He comes (0 the office an . ‘Bua Be familiar number of which is “Play, in the morning drowsy-eyed. |B iss Pike - HO alana Biec Gypsies'”. the operetta inédrporates — Mise Eggleston - Pat Welch a lot of quotations in its ‘ballet

Begins to Worry

rest of the worriers that Bing Is | Mr. Bradley | Miss Wheeler

okay 1 roll over and try to go back

Civic Offers Youngsters . Do Fir Fine Job on

Miss Johnson “After 1 assure the newspapers Mr

and the radio stations and all the he bara Pearson

The story, a bit of | Hungarian goulash, is unimportant. | stor in operetta, ; story, the greater ‘the- opportunity / tor all sorts of comic business. In | Saturday afternoon's performance, | he comedy was admirably managed i» Billy Sully, Carl Randall, Malcolm Lee Beggs and Nina Olivette

‘What a Life

Dorothy Em meiman offerings: The first ballet specialty | Basil Pischer Jr 18 executed. ta Liszt's Hungarian Betsy Wade | ee Normagene Speliman Don Hooten Nancy Porbes |

Vecchetts enry Aldrich

Gertie

Times Amusement

George Bigelow Nel! Redmond cl k | » 3 Mr Patterson LeRoy Hensel | to sleep, he says. “But by that Fr Fier Manan armen oC | e f "» Mr. Perguson Gene Tavlor time I'm worrying mysel Mary Martha Lou Wells ENGLISH | Says he keeps telling himself this Students Joan Bnet Jean Anne (Dares 8 Jub in Your Eye” comedy at | diana Harvey arriett Tresslar, George H is just a new batch of rumors. Then | yo coi” james Harris ’ CIRCLE en] “This Love of Ours,” with Merle

he starts thinking that it's been a day or so since Bing checked In and maybe something could have happened. “So I climb out of bed and put in a call to Bing at the ranch, or in Chicago, or New York,” he sighs. “He's been all three places the past

he leaves and I have a heck of a Meanwhile, the world's most famous crooner is having a jolly time on his vacation. He hardly ever bothers to call his family in Holly- | wood :

“And it's tough on us,” Larry explained. “It's not as if he were the most careful driver in the world. And he usually drives alone. After a new batch of those rumors we're all sitting around the phone chewing our fingernails.” Battling Sponsors He doesn’t have any idea how | the stories get started. Unless some- | body's got it in for Bing. ’ “The truth of it 1s,” Larry de-| clared, “he had a touch of arthritis, |

Penicillin cured that.

battling with his sponsors.”

Seems. Crooner Crosby signed a 10-year contract in California, even

though nothing longer than a 7- | The

year | -contract is legal here. seven years were up this March.

-. he just stopped working.

“He wanted to broadcast from army camps and they wouldn't let him,” Larry explained. “He even turned down a raise on condition

he get better assistants for the show

But the sponsor hired two new -shows instead.” Brother Bing, Larry added, isn't

One to argue. He Just Walked out,

oy ——

BAR T0 HEAR: CLARK

The mid-winter meeting of the Indiana Bar association will be addressed Jan. 25 by Tom C. Clark, United States attorney general. Mr Clark will speak at the bahquet in

- the Claypool hotel” He will be in-

troduced by Goy, Gates. The meeting'’s. Prat sessions will be held Jan.

TONIGHT! .- of 5:25~First NEW YEAR'S EVE SHOWING ' OF

“LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN"

Nant Showing. of

mitted adults to offering, “What a Life” Goldsmith, at special performances Saturday night

times, in the laté Robert Benchley s| phrase, of comedy depicts radio-famed Henry

to record here that thé Junior Civic 1

And he isn't [geting in yesterday afternoon's per- | on the air any more because he’s formance indicated a -lot of well-| | |

“Twhen you felt

Oberon, Charles Korvin and Claude Rains, at 12.25 3 30 and 6 35 “That Night With Yeu” with Pranchot Tone, Busanna Foster and Louise Allbritton, at 11:01, 2:06 and 511

The Junior Civic theater per-

view its latest by Clifford

“San Antonie.”

with Errol Plynn and Alexis Smith, at 8.08, 1008

and yesterday aft-

13.12 and 2.15 ernoon, INDIANA “Stork Club,” with Betty Hutton Concerned with the NWfe and hard at 12:44 and

and Barry Piizgerald In

“Follow That Woman,” with Wililam Gargan and Nancy Kelly. at | 11:35 and 2 42 “Leave Her to Heaven,” with Gene Tierney, at 529 7 39. 9 49 and 12:03.

Henry Aldrich, the

getting into and out of serious KEITH'S y “Nothing But the T 30, scrapes. ‘And while plenty of 2.37 "2hing But the ruth. at 11.30 criticism might be levelled at Mr | ” Maer Benny Rides: Again,” at 108 Goldsmith's writing, it is important Film vaudeville, at 7.12. 9:20 and

. LOEW'S did a fine job. “They Were Expend with Seeing voungsters doing a play Rober! Mont omery, at th yh 12:42, reminds you of your own ‘struggles 2! 95% iL and 1.37 in high school drama. If you look | “Mt Al Came True with Hum-

phrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan, at

back, you'll probably remgmber that : 12.39 and 4.04

the mere fact that ypu gdt through |

{ Always in My Heart” with Jeffrey {the play without forgetting your | Lyon and Zasu Pitts, at 11.07 and 12 lines or falling off the stage seemed | A ollow That Woman at 8:53. {at the time miraculous 8.52 and 11:58 at 7:02, 10.01 and

“Stork Club,” 1.07

The Junior Civic group has | reached remarkably high standards {The setting, the direction and the

Tax |* NOW.® FIRST INDPLS. RUN!

Nothing Like It Since King Kong

co-ordinated work. In the role of puszzied and mis- | understood Henry Aldrich, Basil | Fischer Jr. acted with considerable | skill. The rest of the cast, including Pat Welch, a veteran of | | the senior Civic's production of | | “Kiss and Tell,” and appearing in| “What -a Life” as schoolmarmish | Miss Eggleston, deserve a lot of praise: : Yesterday's audience,. about 80 per- cent - youngsters — some extremely young — shrieked with an< ticipatory delight each time the house . lights were darkened. Let's hope you too can remember back over the sinful years to the time] that kind of en-/ | thusiasm. —H. B So

FAIRBANKS BACK

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31 (U P)— | gq M0 Omdr Douglas Fairbanks Jr. WAS | | pee Tax

back in Hollywood today after five || years of active navy uty. He pre- | | pared to start his first post-war | | movie Tole— —as Sinbad, .the sailor. |

Firat ara NG OF AT Shots tom Rider’

By BEN AMES WILLIAMS ~

IN TECHNICOLOR

Maybe traffic and parking conditions are hurting English eatel |

the slighter th: same youthful

GENE LOCKMART + REED HADLEY - DARRYL HICKMAN - CHILL WILLS owscted by JOHN M. STAHL - produced by WILLIAM A. BACHER

REGULAR SHOWING STARTS TOMORROW

echoes from Richard Strausé’ “Rosenkavalier” and one of the most

plenty of other business down town. | | profound of Johann Strauss’ waltzes, Anyway, the Saturday matinee] {the “Emperor.”

Bright costumes, bright chatter land good singing made this operetta lenjoyable. What vocal deficiencies there were need not ‘be men since some of them might pardon-

the ably be attributed to the local ‘eli-

mate, which is still a fraction of a point under that of Tucson, Aris. Arthur Maxwell who played Jim {Kenyon in “Rose Marie,” and Evellyn Daw, who starred in the earlier

pre-war vehicle, both fulfilfed expectations.

{The rest of the cast showed the energy that made Rose Marie” a delightful Christmas entertainment offering. Tonight's bill at English's will be ‘Suds in Your Eye,” to be continued with matinees tomorrow and Wednesday. “Rebecca” will open

Messrs. Sully and Beggs and Miss Thursday night, to continue Priday

and, with matinee and evening performances, Saturday. “Oklahoma” will start its five-day run a week from lomorrow, —H. B.

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with PAX WALKER and The Orginal New York Production

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STARTS TONITE 8:00 “SAN ANTONIO”

Gals New Year's Eve Show

Last “Showing of “This Love of Ours” 6:30

rims Robert Montgosiery a great star, vo a swell guy, and a typical fighting American . . . returns to the screen in: a pe Slorious adventure,

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