Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1946 — Page 12

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= Blond Hero Learning to Ride, Strum Guitar In Order to Give Roy Rogers Competition

AAR By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10—Hang on to your hats, music lovers. Here, comes your .concert star, Nelson Eddy, as a (bang! bang! bang!) movie’ cowboy, with a trained hoss, a 10-gallon hat, and a gee-tar. . 1 Yep, that's what he’s aimin’ to do next, pahdner. And that just goes to show ya how three months” work at Republic studios’ll affect ya. Even a dignified, opera-singin’ hombre. like Mr. Eddy, JIS all his own too. Says he'd like to give this here Roy| No “yippees” or shootin'-from-the-Rogers a little competition. hip in this one. But Mr. Eddy’'s “Only instead of horse operas I'll signed up to do a lot of movies for turn out hoss operettas” Mr. Eddy Herb Yates at Republic. And he added. “And I'm serious. What's | figures he might as well. get cal- ° more popular these days than a loused up in the riding department. good western with music? “In fact, Mr. Yates called me into The blond hero, who up to now | nis office just the other day,” he has confined his movie horseman-|added. “Wanted to know it I could ship to a few quiet canters as a play a guitar’ I said nope. He said northwest mountie, is spending his| that was too bad.” week-ends learning to ride it rough Reconversion a Mystery 'n’ ready in the San Fernando wal- | And that was the end of that. But ley. $ | Mr. Eddy's not gonna be caught Can't Find a Title | lacking next time. He went right

A New Idea Goes Old Way

Competition Rules Out Subscription Movie

By JACK GAVER United Press ‘Staff «Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The new Park Avenue movie theater, an intimate house with luxurious appointments that was to Have been operated on an annual subscription policy, has found the going too tough and will become just another cinema. Theater owner Walter Reade, who planned the unique theater

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THE INDIANAPOLIS * TIMES

SOLOIST AT ROOF — Ella Rose Wright, pianist featured with Don Reid and his orchestra in their second week at the Indiana Roof.

for four years, will have operated it for two months when he turns it over Dec. 25 to Universal Pictures, Co., Inc, on a long-term lease. Subscribers who paid a year in advance for the privilege of sitting in the same seat at designated weekly dates, are receiving refunds of the unexpended portion of their money. The subscriptions, which reached about 65 per cent of the capacity, were not unsatisfactory, and the {venture might have succeeded had

RENSSELAER RECITALIST—

Todd Duncan, American . baritone and Butler university alumnus, who will be heard in recital at St. Joseph's college, Rensselaer, at 8 p. m. next'Monday. The original Porgy in the first production of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," Mr. Duncan has since extended his reputation internationally in operatic and oratorio roles.

What got him all hepped up on out and corraled Roy Rogers for this hoss opera stuff, he says, was some gee-tar lessons. his current movie at Republic. At| “They're calling me ‘Roy Rogers | the moment they're caliing it the| assistant” around the lot now,” Mr.| “Nelson Eddy Picture.” Seems|Eddy chuckled. “But as soon as 1 they're having trouble finding a get a little better on my strummin’| {itle. [Tn be out there to give him some | «But I do a lot of riding in this|real competition.” as leader of a band of Cossacks,”| How his long-hair fans will take Mr. Eddy explained. “It's a period | to the reconversion of their concert musical based on a Russian fort) idol is still a mystery. But his No. | und penal colony up on the Russian |1 critic, Mrs. E., seems to think it's river in the early 1880s.” ‘a fine idea.

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Mr. Reade been able to get satisfactory films. He found that the competition of other houses in the neighborhood made it impossible for him to secure the latest pictures until after the older establishments had gotten the most out

'Talk' or Insults Film Suit Issue

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 0. P)— of them. (Whether unprintable four-letter) Mr. Reade still thinks he has a words are insults or just Hollywood good idea and hopes to try it out talk was the issue today in a film- [gain in some place like Philadelland court suit. Motion Picture Di- |phia or OF Washington, rector Charles Vidor seeks to break | [his contract with Columbia studios. | Mr. Vidor asked $75,000 for the 39

Extra s Performance

For Civic Theater Show

| weeks remaining under the contract. |

{He charges that Studio President| “Over 21." the Civic's theater's Harry Cohn called him such “vile, current production, will be held over | . that | for an extra performance next Sat-| spells, |urday evening, The Ruth Gordon comedy of wartime domesticity has been sold out Vidor | for every night this week, with a performance Friday spon-| {sored by Alpha Chi Omega. | Regervations for Saturday may be

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heart and couldn't eat. The trouble started, Mr

| Hayworth in the picture “Gilda.”

{ing the company early and refused obtained by calling the box office to accept his explanation that Miss | between 1 p. m. and 9 p. m. daily,

LAST DAY!

Hayworth wis top tired by 5 p. m. o give a good performance, Mr. | Vidor charged. “He said I was a dumb, lousy Hungarian, then he started talking| about my ancestors,” Mr. Vidor tes-|

Cohn, who may testify later said in his answer to the suit that his particular type of re-| marks weren't insults—just Holly-| wood talk.

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Clock Civic “Over 21,” Ruth Gordon comedy, at 8:30. ENGLISH Blackstone, magician, at 8:30. CIRCLE On Stage—Gene Krupa and his hand, plus a show including Johnny © Woods ana James an Beverly Paysee at 1:00, 4:03, 6:57 and 9:34,

On Screen—"Step By Step,” with Lawrence Tierney and Ann Jeffreys,

at 11:32, 2:26, 5:20, 7,59 and 10:34, INDIANA “Cloak and Dagger,” with Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer and Robert Alda, at 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, T:4% and 10. KEITH'S “The Man in Grey,” with James Mason, Phyllis Calvert and Margaret Lockwood, at 11:40, 1:50, 3:50, 5:55, 7:55 and 9.55. EW’'S “The Strange Woman,” with Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis ly at 12:27, 3:34, 6:41 and “Blondie Knows Best,” with Pen-

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10 “Three Little" phos in Blue,” with June Haver, George Montgomery and others, at 11.20, 1:10, 3, 4:50, 6:40, 8 25 and 10:15,

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“HOLIDAY IN MEXICO”

Jas. Ellison, “G. I. WAR BRIDES"

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MARGARET LOCKWOOD + PHYLLIS CALVERT JAMES MASON « STEWART GRANGER

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Conservatory

Plans Concert

More than 200 singers and instrumentalists will participate in Jordan conservatory’s © annual = Christmas concert at 8:30 p. m. next Tuesday in the Murat. theater. The .80-piece Jordan Symphony orchestra, Victor Kolar conducting; and the 125-voice Jordan-Butler chorus under ‘Philip Duey, in addition to soloists, will be heard in compositions of Bach, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Wagner, Brahms and others. No tickets will be necessary to the concert, presented annually by the conservatory as a public service.

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