Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1946 — Page 10

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eight-year-“Let's

Jacqueline Kelley, old dancer, featured In

Swing It,” teen-talent show at 8:30 p. m. Saturday at Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high school.

{car dealers, dry cleaners and dance

|T want to know is where they house

{wire floor-hooks for acrobatic ap-

Circus Takes

Symphony.

By HENRY BUTLER Dvorak or Polack—the Murat theater can take care of either, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon it was Dvorak's “New World” symphony, ‘Yesterday Polack Bros. moved their outfity into the versatile theater for the Murat temple's first annual Shrine circus. You'd hardly know the place. Outside in the lobby were pop stands, candy stands and vendors of programs, fancy hats, gleaming

whips and other typical circus souvenirs. Inside, the upper boxes were

draped with banners advertising

ing schools, to mention only three.

Temple Packed Tots walked around, gravely licking foot- high wads of pink spuncandy on sticks, Ice cream and soda salesmen circulated through the capacity audience. The place was packed, and not merely on the audience side. What

all the performers backstage—the performers, the equipment and the livestock, including the elephants. Where we sat, in press seats in one of the lower left boxes, you got a good view of backstage. Stagehands milled around, testing guy-

paratus, On" the north-side iron| balcony backstage were trunks of | Indianapolis Symphony orchestra) instruments and three or four bassfiddle cases.

No Confusion

An all-youth project, the program is being presented for the benefit of Hanover college.

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{ confusion {helped produce a show, you'll know ___ [that speaks well for the manage- | ment,

‘makes you think you too could do

| What

Despite crowding, there was no And if you've ever

In the pit. a good, lusty circus band, directed by Bee Carsey, played the kind of music that

those back-flips. The ringmaster, T gather from

Over Murat! §

Shrine Show Follows Dvorak|

In Turners’ Play

Jack Messmer and Sylvia Kitchen as Oscar and Fannie " Wolfe in “The Royal Family,” to be given by the Athenaeum Turners theater at 8 p. m, Friday and Saturday in the Athenaeum ball-

room,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

|Ed Sheldon, Onis Broadway's

| fluence behind | end, which came with his death

1 {

Times Amusement

Clock

MURAT

Polack Bros. Shrine circus, at 2:18 and 8:1 CIRCLE “Cinderella Jones,” with Joan Leslie and Robert Alda, at 12:35, 3:50, 7 and 10:05 “Woman Who Came Back,” with John Loder, Nancy Kelly and Otto Kruger at 11:30, 2:40, 5:50 and 9.

INDIANA “The Spiral Staircase,” with Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy McGuire’ and George Brent, at 11:34, 1:40, 3:46, 5:52, 7:58 and 10:04. KEITH'S “The Fighting Guardsman.” 11:46. 2:28, 5:10, 7:52 and 10:28 “Pack Up Your Troubles,” at 1:08, 3:50, 6:32 and 9:14. LOEW'S “Adventure,” with Greer Garson and Clark Gable, at 11:35, 2:04, 4.33, 7:02 and 9:31. LYRIC “Road to Utopia,” with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lae mour, at 11, 1:09, 3:18, 5.36, 7:54 and 10:12.

the voluminous souvenir program, | which is practically a business di- | rectory of Indianapolis (more power: to the Shriners and their benevo- | ‘lent purpose!) was Jack Klein. We | sat about eight feet from Mr. Klein, | {who was talking into a mike; so

we couldn't catch all the names.

Kid Performers |

None of the other performers will

'be sore if I mention Peppi and Nita

(Borza first. They're not in® the [printed program, and probably no- | body would have known them if they hadn't had national publicity | in -a- syndicated magazine over the week-end. According to the publicity, Peppi | is 9 years old. His sister is 10. The kids are wonderful—all that control, co-ordination and timing in their remarkably good routine. It's as|

where, The Iwanos, the Yacopis, Zacchinis all went over big. —In these circus programs, hard to recall individuals. Every- | thing happens too fast, and there | are too many people. So there can't {be any leading men and primadonnas

the

a jaded old newspaper |

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| BARTLETT REUNITE

fine a kid act as I've ever seen any- |

it's |

minor mishaps, One mishap 1 won't {mention; luckily it wasn't any { worse, But the other is news. “Fu,” a trained bear in Emil and Sue Pal-

Leading Musical | Starts 4th Year gpAll

NEW YORK, April 2—Okla- | { homa" began its fourth year onj| | Broadway last night with its 1300th

Only cast

| performance. | of the original 1t]

| | has 105 performances to go to ir,

remains.

a new long-run mark for musicals. It's still selling out and more than] 2,000,000 persons have paid $5,003- | 448 to. see it here. The touring] national company, now in San Francisco, has played formances, been seen by persons and collected $4,368,118. | Last year's critics circle prize | play, “The Glass Menagerie,” start-| ed its second year last night, still playing to capacity.

CLARK, GABLE GREER GARSON

“ADVENTURE”

lenberg's -act, took a violent dislike! Fu is {handy with his mitts (no gloves),| {and when he made some of those | unorthodox passes, he kept the! stagehand hopping. That's the way the Shrine-Polack circus is—never a dull moment. The audience liked it. The kids liked it.

whole family.

ELLEN DREW AND

HOLLYWOOD, April 2 (U. P). A six-week trial separation ended

happily today for actress Ellen

STARTING § THURSDAY {

Bullet scarred thrifty in a Trad Town on the mmRoanng Frontier -

Randolph SCOTT ANN DVORAK

| Prew and her husband, writer-pro-ducer Sy Bartlett. “We find that ences are really very unimportant and were very much in love again,” she said.

[be discussed.” They were married at Lake Tahoe in 1941, shortly before Bartlett joined the army air corp as a cap-

tain. She visited him in England in 1943 when she entertained troops |

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NEW YORK, April 2 (U. P).—To

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yesterday at the age of 60. An invalid and blind, the man who once was regarded as the country's leading playwright was an in-

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