Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1946 — Page 6

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For what seemed the season's

largest crowd pushed and shoved its way into the theater to see the opening of “Carmen Jones,” Railroad delays, which tied up the troupe, postponed the show until the fashionable hour of 9 1p. m. By that time everybody but the standees was seated, and a couple of ruffled souls, one of whom brought to the Indianapolis Symphony office a woeful tale of having

y To ; been jostled, were presumably "Here, at last, is something that : “really relieves the distress and calmed. | discomfort of simple hemor- No Toreador 3, ep ; What the crowd saw and heard or Snauentine 1 Actal Canes, by was a splendid music drama with

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only incidental resemblance to | Bizet's opera. Bizet's music survives, {but 19th-century Spain becomes | wartime United States. They've \veplaced the toreador with a prizeFp Be ———————— |

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“Carmen.”

operas, such .a$ Italian-style grunts and groans of tenors and baritones and the dreadful ham acting opera audiences endure for the sake of the music, \ The story itself is familiar enough. In modern dress, it becories more plausible. Music Carried Over It revolves about the character of

her lover-victim Joe. In Act II, scene I, Joe calls her a word that wouldn't get by the copy desk. By that time, you could somehow tell that the audience was thinking of the same word. People who haven't seen “Carmen Jones” will wonder how a great opera can be drastically adapted without damage. But the music carries over and becomes the background for a story much easier to understand—a story of passion and murder such as you might read in the paper. It begins to mean a lot moré than some musty costumeplece at the Met. Capable Cast It was a shrewd Billy Rose who sponsored this brilliant and fascinating production. Mr. Rose and his staff gathered a fine bunch -of singers, actors and dancers who make the revised opera a real musical show, and not just a museum-piece for lorgnette-wavers. Among the soloists, Muriel Smith as Carmen, Napoleon Reed as Joe and Elton J. Warren as Cindy Lou deserve especial ‘credit for last night’s performance. Old Bizet wrote music to suit himself and not to accommodate

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soloists in a hard-working, traveling company. Those high B’s for the tenor are tough stuff. Consequently, the “Carmen Jones” company alternate some of their soloists. Fatigue in Evidence It's just as well, because there was some evidence of vocal fatigue last night. I wouldn't want to criticize, but I hope that what seemed to be the tiredest voice will get a rest tonight. The ensemble singing was fine. So were the costumes. (I want to be buried in a suit like John Bubbles wore in the last scene.) And the scenery, for a touring show, was impressive and rapidly changed. Some people might hope that Hollywood would do something with “Carmen Jones.” I hope Hollywood doesn't, for they'd sure as heck put a lady psycho-analyst into it.

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Pacific Gag Book Issued

Jerry Colonna Treats Lighter Side of Island War

By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 11.—A new book hits the ‘stands today—'Who Threw That Coconut!”—By googleeyed Jerry Colonna, no less. It's all about his overseas tour. And the fact that it started out to be about Mother Goose is something only “The Mustache” can understand. : . “It's simple,” he explained. T've always wanted to write. Once I wrote for the Saturday Evening Post—and they sent it to me.” That oughta give you a rough idea. “Who Threw That Coconut!” is straight out of a diary Mr. Colonna kept when he and Bob Hope were island hopping in the South Pacific. “We went from camp to camp, island to island, and bad to worse,” he quipped. “We saw a lot of blood and strain, but I left that out. Other guys can write that better.” Mr. Colonna concentrated on dishing out the delirium. He did a good job, too. : Long Planned Effort We read the “Coconut” and got involved in a tooth extraction on Tarawa, a plane crash in Austrailia, a run-in with the Bougainville native cops, a betel nut hangover, a command performance for a sturgeon, and an escape from an ice cream freezer, It has everything in it, in fact, except Mother Goose. “That's what I started to write a few years ago,” Mr. Colonna said. “A book of nursery rhymes with crazy punchlines. And with black mustaches on all the cows and pigs and even Mother Goose.” He was going to call it “Mother oose Goes to War.” Had a lot of zany ditties dreamed up about rationing and shortages and war nerves. Then came the paper short age. “I'm just a frustrated author,” {he declared. “So when I got back {from the Pacific with this diary I |re-wrote it into rhymes. Then I {took it to a publisher.” | The publisher thought it was a terrific idea. ‘But he said it was too short. “Told me people could pick the thing up off the stands and finish in ten minutes,” Mr. Colonna added. “And even I know you're not gonna make any money that way.” Stretched to 90 Pages So “he took his verses home, squeezed in a lot of gags, and stretched it into that 90-page book

30 p. m. next Monday

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down for any day now. His pal, Bob Hope, who dashed out a best-seller himself last year, isn't worried about Mr. Colonna as competition. “He's all for it" Mr. Colonna said. “Told me I could take Kauai, Noumea, Pitylu, and Nadzab. Said {he couldn't even take time out to pronounce them, let alone get. the spelling right.” So he did. And come next Thursday Mr. Colonna, man and mustache, will pull a switch and give his autograph to fans in a downtown department store: Provided, of course, they've shelled out a {greenback for his book.

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11 (U. P.).— { Film Actress Selene Walters, 20, and | Dr. Alfred G. Huenergardt, 41, Beyerly Hills surgeon, today planned |a honeymoon in Mexico, Cuba and |New York.

The Paramount actress, a former |; | Powers model, and Dr. Huernergard®,

{were married here yesterday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

{ Francis M. Walker of St. Louis, but {changed her professional name to]

| Walters.

Miss Walters formerly was mar- | ried to Brazilian coffee magnate | Cassio Prado, whom she divorced |

| last May. Dr. Huenergardt's marriages

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3 Choruses

Triad Program Presented by Male Singers Here.

Sturdy sounds of male-chorus singing filled the Murat: Saturday

night. The occasion was the Triad Festival, presented by the Murat Temple Chanters, the Athenaeum Turners

Maennerchor and the Knights of Columbus Columbians. In the first part of the program, the Murat Chanters, directed by Carroll Long, the Maennerchor, directed by Clarence Elbert, and the Columbians, directed by Carl Lauber, each presented a group of popular favorites, In Part II of the program, the three conductors each took at directing the Triad Festival chorus, composed of all three organizations. Accompanists for the three groups were Horace Williamson, for the

Maennerchor, and Carl Kiefer, for the Columbians. The overture and incidental music were supplied by

directed by Constantine Borshofl.

liam McCaw, Karl L. Friedrichs,

for the Murat Temple; Dr. Carl B.

Borshoff, for the Athenaeum, and 0. C. Litzelman, Mr. Lauber, John Hoffman, W. Lawrence Sexton, Edward J. Fillenwarth and J. Emmett McManamon, for the Knights of Columbus.

Athenaeum Plans

'Ah! Wilderness'

The Athenaeum Turners theater will present Eugene O'Neill's “Ah! Wilderness” at 8 p. m. next Saturday in the Athenaeum auditorium. ‘ Included in the cast of O'Neill's nostalgic play will be Norman Green, production director; Eileen Barber, Phil Miller, Verne Hanshew, Peggy Kiernan, Nancy Palm, Fred Linke, Melba Githens, Earl Githens, Joan Behrmann, Monroe Hosford, Emmy Lou Powell, Frances Linke, Jack Messmer, Amos Barton and E. F. Sitzmann. The production staff includes Mr. Linke as technical director, Mr. Barton as assistant technical director and Marguerite Farkas, stage manager. The overture and incidental music will be furnished by the Athenaeum Turners Concert orchestra, directed by Constantine Borshoff.

Marsha Hunt Is

In Festival|

Chanters; Dorothy Munger, for the |

the Athenaeum Concert orchestra, |p

The committee on arrangements | included William A. Hoefgen, Wil- [§

Mr. Long and Raymond J. Sever, |}

Sputh, Kenneth C. Duncan, Ernest || H. Pflumm, Mr, Elbert and Mr. |}

Writer's Bride

VAN NUYS, Cal, Feb. 11 (U.| P.).—Movie Actress Marsha Hunt, | 28, last night married Film Writer Robert Presnell Jr, 31, in a ceremony performed by a pastor in whose New York church the ac-|

teacher. Dr. Raymond L. Forman, pastor of the St. Paul's Methodist church in New York City, read the marriage vows. {

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Soloist, Violinist YEHUDI MENUHIN

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