Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1946 — Page 14

Helen Traubel (singing ly) and Torsten Ralf in roles, and with Kers“a8 Venus“and Alex‘Sved as Wolfram, the com‘filled the sold-out auditorium ‘fine music. was a big occasion. People d for it. Marvelous Sound nd that great auditorium, injely handsomer than the Metrojan Opera house itself, got what ht be called another dedication. ist night, with the Metropolin symphony - sized orchestra iting a trifle high in front of he stage), and with the splendid solo and ensemble singing, you got marvelous experience of sound. ; user” is r" 1s especially popu-

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scale step to the seventh below, which becomes terribly important 20 years later in “Tristan,” Wagner's not yet riding his hobby horse. Even in the orchestra, the effects are not yet so bizarre as they later become. There is, of course, that

woodwinds, which probably did a lot to jack up 18th-century wood-wind-playing ‘standards. . But “Tannhaeuser” is still a long. way from the phony profundity and interminably unresolved dissonances of the Ring. It's Wagner, you might say, before he became a pre-Nazi.

Met's Music-Drama The Metropolitan's “Tannhaeuser” as music is one thing. The Metropolitan's “Tannhaeuser” as music-drama is another. Paul Henry Lang, Columbia university’s distinguished musical historian, writing in a recent issue of the Saturday Review of Literature, took the Metropolitan to task. The music, Prof. Lang said, is fine. The drama is wooden and out of date.

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Somebody lent me, as a curiosity, the 1912 edition of the “Victor | Book of the Opera.” Sure enough, for just one example, the ‘“teure Halle” (great hall of the Wartburg) {which Miss Traubel gloriously | hailed last night, is depicted on | page 326 as identieal with the set used at I. U. (The program-says [the set has been re-painted. It | could use--another paint job.) Scenery Atrocious Like all the Wagnerian scenery | Ive ever seen in the Metropolitan, ttonically bad taste — what the Germans themselves call “Kitsch.” So are the costumes—heavy and brocady, like Fifth ave. mansion parlor curtains. 80 is the acting. This business of arms half raised, like the beginning of army calisthenics, to express passion—“Das geht nicht.” Certainly it doesn’t go with the music. And it isn't necessary. But the Metropolitan (read Irving Kolodin's history of the old opry house) has been hamstrung by benefactors, trustees, boxholders and the rest of the prestige-ahd-money crew. They've got the singers; they've got the orchestra—

you get such things as that minor| seventh interval from the sixth.

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Harold J. Kennedy, author of “A Goose for the Gander,” Gloria Swanson’s current vehicle now at English theater, Mr. Kennedy also has a role in the play, which will be .seen tonight and in matinee and evening performances tomorrow,

HOWARD HUGHES' WRIT REJECTED

S8AN "FRANCISCO, April 30 (U, P.). ~The public here still couldn't see Howard Hughes’ multi-million-dollar movie “The Outlaw” and/or buxom Actress Jane Russell today. Superior Judge Edward P, Murphy denied application by Mr, Hughes' attorneys for a writ of ppohibition which would have released the movie for public showing pending a jury trial to determine whether the film was “indecent” in fits display of Miss Russell's charms,

HOODLUMS DAMAGE STAR'S BEACH HOME

HOLLYWOOD, April 30 (U. P). —The palatial beach home of Actress Janet Gaynor was turned into

$7000 damage during a destructive drunken party, according to a report yesterday to police. Mrs. Laura Gaynor, the screen actress’ mother, opened the Venice house, locked up since last Thursday, to discover empty liquor bottles everywhere, cans of food strewn over the furniture and carpets smeared with oll. Nothing was reported stolen, police said.

2D "CAR VICI VICTIM DIES Times Special FT. WAYNE. April 30.—Mrs. Virginia Burnsides today became the second person to die as the result of ‘injuries received in a traffic accident near herg early Sunday. Mrs. Ruby Weber of Ft, Wayne also was in-

why not the sets and the acting and some refreshing departure from the standards of Mme. Gadski's time? What people saw last night was a strange hybrid. It was up-to-date technical excellence in music (and Traubel, Torborg, Ralf and the rest of them have adjectivedefying voices) combined with indescribably corny acting and staging.

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PRESTON. STURGES | SUED FOR DIVORCE

“headed for the divorce court today | after Mrs. Louise Sargent Sturges, | 36, filed a suit.

| 4-year-old son, Solomon, the family | {home, and “reasopiable alimony”— as well as a court order to prevent | | Sturges dispbsing of community | holdings or failing to support his| family pending trial.

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[denly and without ‘explanation, | “Amber” now has no director. | pending selection of Mr. Stahl's suc. | cessor by Producer Darryl F, Zanuck, {now in the East, and no star, pend{ing recovery of Actress Peggy Cum-| | mins, who is ill

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