Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1947 — Page 9

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Concerts, ‘Naughty Marietta’ Climax Butler Bowl Season

: ; By HENRY BUTLER WO of America’s most promising young instrumentalists, and the opening next Saturday of “Naughty Marietta” are the Butler Bowl attractions for the coming

week.

After the riotous Olsen and Johnson show winds up its week tonight, the Bowl

stage will be cleared for the musical events.

» » n AT 8:45 P. M. tomorrow Patricia Travers, violinist, and at 8:45 p. m. néxt Wednesday William Kapell, pianist, will appear with Fabien Sevitzky and the summer symphony in the centennial season's two final concerts. Miss Travers, the 19-year-old prodigy last heard here with Dr. Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony March 30 ‘and 31, 1946, will again play Mendelssohn's: E minor concerto for violin. The young artist has just returned from her first European concert. tour, which, judging from reviews quoted by her management, was extraordinarily successful. Assisting artist in tomorrow's program will be Dennis Carroll, tenor, and Phyllis Wilcox, Indianapolis soprano. Mr, Carroll, who scored a triumph in the Butler Bowl production of “The New Moon,” will have the ‘male lead in “Naughty Marietta,” which ‘opens a week's run at the Bow! next Saturday. Miss Wilcox was -a vivacious and charming Jujle, comedienne in “The New Moon.” ~ ” ” TOMROOW'S SUMMER symphony program will combine ‘classical and light-opera music. Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra will open with Elgar's “Pomp ‘and Circumstance,” continuing avith Thomas’ “Mignon” overture, the first movement of Schubert's “Unfinished” symphony, the _KreislerSevitaky “Praeludium and Allegro,” the Mendelssohn FP hotia, With Miss Travers as soloist, and Strauss’ waltzes, After intermission, Miss Wilcox will be heard with . Whe opghestrs in “Villa,” from “The Merry Widow,” and. “Kiss Me Again,” from Victor Herbert's “Mile.

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Student Prince’ and

psy Love Song." " from HerWith Miss Wilcox, he will duet and the waltz from Lehar’s followed by the concluding orchestral Strauss’ “Vienna Woods” waltz and Dubensky's arrangement of Stephen Foster melodies.

bert’s “Fortune Teller.” sing the Widow,”

MR. KAPELL, 24-year-old pianist who appeared with Dr. Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony |

at the Murat Nov. 17 and 18, 1945, will play Rachmaninoff’s Second piano concerto in C minor (the “Full Moon and Empty Arms” concerto) in an all-

| Russian program Wednesday.

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| Except for an orchestral transcription of Rach- | | maninoff’s sharp minor prelude, popularly known |

as “The Bells of Moscow,” the rest of the program will be entirely Tchaikovsky, including the “Marche Slave,” the polonaise and waltz Onegin,” the “Andanté Cantabile” symphony, the waltz from the “Caprice Italien” and the “1812” overture, » » ~ THE WEEK-LONG RUN of Victor Herbert's

“Naughty Marietta” beginning at 8:45 p. m. next Saturday will end the centennial season.

Stage and screen star Edith Fellows heads the cast, with Mr. Carroll playing male lead and Lucy

from “Eugene

‘Greeno, Fred Lightner and Lois Gentile in other

principal roles.: Charles Dosch, Ford Kaufman and E. Edward Green of Indianapolis will have oles in the supporting cast. » Geneve Dorn, whirlwind acrobatic dancer who appeared in D ATije New Jeon’ iD, return for dhe

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“Merry |

from the Fifth | string serenade, |

/ STARS — LIVE AND SCREEN — Dominating the local entertainment scene next week will be (upper left) "Naughty Marietta," which opens next Saturday at Butler Bowl; (top center) Dennis

Edith Fellows, top star of

Carroll, also in the Victor Herbert operetta and programmed with Phyllis Wilcox (upper right), Indianapolis soprano, and Patricia Travers (lower right), 19-year-old violinist, as soloists with Fabien Sevitzky and the summer Next to Miss

Travers is William Kapell, young American pianist, who

symphony at the Bowl tomorrow night.

will be soloist at next Wednesday's Bowl concert’. Not a soloist, but giving forth with his stock jungle yell is Johnny Weissmuller (lower center) in "Tarzan and the Huntress,"

Mr. Weissmuller, Janet Leigh, screen newcomer, gazes

opening Thursday at the Circle. Above

adoringly at Van Johnson in "The Romance of Rosy Ridge,"

bars, Andy Devine and Margaret Lindsay plan to aid

starting Wednesday at Loew's. Talking through

hero Jon Hall in "The Vigilantes Return,” the Lyric's Wednesday offering, while Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn have serious conversation about matters of family and fortune in "Cry Wolf," which begins its week at the Indiana Wednesday. ;

Park Concerts ‘Scheduled

Pree concerts sponsored by the band, E. E. Kerner, directing, will park and recreation department| play at Brookside park. A Teen-Age have been announced for next week. revue in Garfield amphitheater at . The Plainfield Boys’ band, Louis {8 p, m. next Wednesday will feature Durflinger directing, will be heard|the Teen chorus, William Moon from 3 to 4 p. m. tomorrow in Broad |direc’ing, with the following »olo{Ripple park. From 5 to 7 p. m. at ists: Patty. Joy, accordionist; Gene Garfield park, the sundown concert Poston, ' Pat. Kennedy, Barbara will be i] oy. te Indianapolis Stevens and Louis Brewer, vocalists, Oaert Te — Ameri- with . Mildred Henninger, Planist, can Pederation of Musicians. and Harold HMagedon, ‘master of AS p.m. oa

BAR BARA STANWYCK'S well again, That is, In fact, Flynn, in

When Mr, Basehart |

not to current

ried Basehart, in hands of his uncle, Mr, Flynn,

| 18 reported dead, Miss Stanwyck comes around to

collect the widow's share. But complications even more painful than inheritance taxes confront Barbara. While she’s staying at the. vast and forbidding estate, scary things start happening. Not the least of her troubles is | the discovery that her husband isn’t dead after all. | Considering what a guy he is, afflicted with a

| daifigerous hereditary “taint” (never mind the best

| expert opinion oh such things; Miss Stanwyck and hér audience can't help |”

this is a movie story), having a 90-minute emotional workout. On the same bill will be “Little Miss Broadway,” 2 musical starring Jean Parker and featuring Jerry Wald and his orchestra, » ~ ~ * THAT HEART-QUICKENER to feminine moviegoers, Van Johnson, a screen newcomer, in Ridge,”

| is cast opposite Janet Leigh, 4 “The Romance of Rosy | starting Wednesday at Loew's, The story concerns post-Civil war feuds in the

Ozark region of Missouri, with “no'thren” and “suthren” sympathizers locked in dissension. Masked raiders burn barns, hinder efforts at peacemaking. And Bro. Johnson, on the no'thren side of the quarrel, has what the blurb calls “one of the moat savage fistic encounters ever caught on film” with Jim Davis. Bounds as if “The Romance of Rosy Ridge" might be a tonic for people with sluggish circulation, Also on Loew's bill for Wednesday is “The 13th Hour,” another in the “whistler” series of mysteries, Starring Richard Dix and Karen Marley,

Barbara Stanwyck, Jon Hall, Van Johnson in New Films

she's recovered from the illness she had to enact in “The Other Love.”

she’s back. from a scenario grave and teamed up with a new partner, Errol “Cry Wolf,” which opens Wednesday at the Indiana.

» » » NOT TO BE outdone by the action on Loew's screen, the Lyric will open Wednesday with a ripe roarin' horse opera called “The Vigilantes Return.” In this film, a tussle between Jon Hall and Jack Lambert parallels the Johnson-Davis bout in Loew's main feature, Margaret Lindsay supplies the romantic interest in this story of Montana vigilantes, with Andy Devine and Paula Drew in important roles,

Second feature on the Lyric bill will be “Step= child,” with Brenda Joyce, Donald Woods and Terry Austin. Here's another film about the-bad effects

| of divorce upon the children of broken homes, It

returns to ‘a favorite Hollywood theme--that,. for women, career and home-life are incompatible, n » » ' COINCIDENTALLY, Miss Joyce will also appear on the Circle screen next week also, when “Tarzan and the Huntress” opens Thursday. Latest in the seemingly endless series, “Tarzan and the Huntress” has Johnny Weissmuller doing his customary tree-swinging and jungle-calling, With Miss Joyce as his mate-and Johnny Sheffield as his son. This time, Tarzan foils a plot of unscrupulous hunters to trap his animal friends wholesale for zoos, The companion feature is “A Likely Story” starring Bill Williams and Barbara Hale. It's about 7 a friendly conspiracy Bill engages in to hélp sell Barbara's paintings and free her from the notion that she's failed as an artist. When Bill tries to sell his veteran's life insurance to help Barbara, a couple of gangsters insure him

for $60,000 and then try to wear down his: Tajih.

Sounds pleasant enough. " ” * NEIGHBORHOOD thea larly sted Wednesday and