Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1946 — Page 6

Victor Fore s Music, Humor Delight Audience at Murat

With a shrewd estimate of his Jaudienee, Mr, Borge knows low far to carry each wild escapade before he abfuptly changes the subject |: and goes off into something serious |;:j for a change, a What seems to have been an ex- |: lceedingly, strenuous tour has sadly plenty . of delighted response. 4 [eroded the performance of the first He agall Re {movement of Grieg's piano concerto, rogram, " nin the order of items. But Last proYemint: ny Ee a the material he used was mostly # inight it had gremlins. familiar. | It isn't fair to be too critical of There was the “phonetic panei sir matters,” Bab one suspects) tion” stunt, one of the funniest, ooo 1 onagers push profitable |’ things any comedian has ever |, .. .c much too hard.

By HENRY BUTLER

Victor Borge again drew applause from a Murat audience last night. | And while Easter activities prob- | ably helped cut last night's. attendance from the capacity house he | had last November, Mr. Borge got

Swedish mezzo-soprano . . Rerstin Thorborg. » n

Opportunity fo

is no great shakés as drama. But it does two important things: It gives a lot of kids an opportunity | to engage in creative activity, and |

dominantly juvenile audience.

sion that went on Saturday after-|

!lnoon. Those youngsters in the au- | Sou

dience were really worked up over the schoolroom tribulations of Tom Sawyer (Jack Forbes) and Becky Thatcher (Peggy Bates), Both

Sing in 'La Boheme’.

dreamed up. | Victor Borge puts a lot of energy | There was “Happy Birthday to |and verve in his work (he has| posers, with this time an extended | parody of Bach. [batic stuff in his pjano parodies). One of Mr, Borge's specialties is [Night after gight, that makes de- | 0. LJ St S t starting one of those improvisations [mands on the artist. age e as difficulties overtake him, lapsing [now and next season, Victor Borge into pianistic gibberish with glis- [will have time enough off to work sandi, flat hands, elbows and even |up some new routines, For the keyboard. That declining of sense what he does now should contrive| Jan Peerce, Enzio Pinza to into nonsense requires great talent even more fantastically funny and expert timing. (things. ope i ] 1] ispend all his energy on ceaseless| py AOMINGTON, Ind., April 22— 8. (performance Of his present pro-/perciin Thorborg, great Swedish Figst Indianapolis Showing! jSram, | mezzo-soprano, will sing the role + \ : of Venus in Wagner's “TannL< TO GIVE RECITAL opera néxt Monday night in In-! diana university auditorium. Jordan conservatory piano and! wre Thorborg, now the MetroPierson will be heard in recital at| | American * successes in a Metro8 p. m. Thursday in the Odeon,| politan debut in 1936. 106 E. North st. | Another Swedish singer, Torsten

You" in the styles of different, con- | {added some new bits of fairly acrowith apparent seriousness, and then, | What I hope is that, between | For Operas the heel of the right foot on thedéreative imagination that produced It would be a pity if he had to Times Special ‘JORDAN STUDENTS je with the Metropolitan | marimba students of Miss Imogene | politan’s leading mezzo, began her Students appearing in Thurs-| Ralf. who appeared last winter as!

tra, also will be heard in the Gayle Sunderman, Ruth Hanlin,| Bloomington performace of “TannJudy Martin, Alice McKinney,! haeuser.”

F ' EO =4 | Walker, Marilyn Snider, Birdella|cini's “La Boheme,” which will be| “ROOSEVELT, MAN OF DESTINY" Open 10

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Rayman Snider, Charlotte John-| | time 21e | hii Indianapolis Showing | f | |

Lois Walker, Barbara Jackson,! singers as Jan Peerce, ‘Licia AlHelen Schell and Alice Hanlin. | banese, John Brownlee, Ezio Pinza,

The concert will be open to the Frances Greer and Salvatore Bac“The Daughter of Don Q"—News public. caloni.

r Crabbe—Al St. John “GENTLEMEN WITH GUNS"

Ken Curtis—'* Big, Boys Williams “Throw a Saddle On a Star”

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actors did a highly creditable job. In three acts and 12 scenes, this] | stage version of “Tom Sawyer” pre-| Isents some of the most familiar| episodes. from Mark Twain's great | k—the graveyard scene, for exe | ample. Clever lighting effects] against the Civic's cyclorama made | that scene especially effective. So many scenes and so much ma-

{terial make the. play episodic rather than cumulative. But the]

Sara Spencer opus has the advan-| tage, for Junior Civic purposes, of | {giving a large cast some oppor- | tunity to gain stage experience. The. directors of the production, !

Mrs, John Kinghan and Mrs. Hor- | lace Roberts, together with their| capable staff of assistants, deserve hearty praise for successfully accomplishing a difficult undertaking.

—H. B,

day's program include Karen Raf-| lost with Fabien Sevitzky and VOCALIST TO GIVE ferty, Nicki Farley, Marilyn Stubbs, | the Indianapolis Symphony orches Joan Davidson, Phyllis Shafer, i RECITAL TOMORROW

Lee Green, vocalist, will be heard

in recital at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow at | Larry Wood, ‘Stanley Farley, Judy | Both “Tannhaeuser.,” and Puc- Indiana World War Memorial,

In a program sponsored by the

Gasper, Leta Ann Cristeffel, Mar-| {given Tuesday, April 30 will start] | Richard Allen guild of Allen Chapel lene O'Dell, Lois Ann Goodnough,|at 8 p. m., central daylight-saving| {A.M.E. church and the national | {sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Mr son, Patsy Wright, Nancy Best,! The cast for “La Boherné™ in-| Green will sing classical, romantic Phyllis Moore, Marilyn Stevenson, cludes such celebrated Metropolitan | and modern arias and songs.

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