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‘Naughty Marietta’
Opens Here Tonight
By HENRY BUTLER T Jooks as if “Naughty Marietta,” opening tonight at Butler Bowl, will draw much better than “The New
Moon” did.
Advance ticket sales for the entire week's Tun have been brisk, according to the centennial office. . 1f the Herbert operetta is a financial success, chances for future summer seasons |
will be good. “Naughty Marietta” is, you might say, an earlier version of “The New Moon.” It has similarities of plot. There's a headstrong, runaway French gal of good ‘family, There's a daredevil hero, who .engages in harmless piracy as a sideline. And the. action takes Plage in 18th eentyry ® 8 =» i THE BEST KNOWN tunes, of course, are “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” “I'm Falling in Love with Someone” and the “Ttalian Street Song,” which even Beatrice Kay's murderous. parody has failed to kin, ’ Besides Edith, Feliows, Dennis Carroll, Lucy Greeno, Fred Lightner, Lois Gentile and the Indianspolis soprano, Phyllié' Wilcox, the east will include Charles Dosch, E. Edward Green, Thornton Klos and ufman, all of Indianapolis, plus « Thrge iocal chorus. - Geneve . Dorn, acrobatic-danc-ing sensation of “The New Moon,” will be hack in the. Herbert, 0p-.
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year it will undoubtedly finish in the red, though not so badly as many of us feared in advance. Every city with a summer music program has had the same experience, Sometimes it takes several years for the program to break even. The most encouraging thing locally has been the steady ine crease of popular interest. Fabien
" Sevitzky's “AidA” production, with
its record-breaking attendance, showed that a really big event will draw a’'big crowd. » ~ »~ IF THE SYMPHONY concerts continue next summer, it might be well to get big-time soloists— artists with the box-office power of Jascha Heifetz or Magian Anderson: The risks are greater, but so are the rewards, If you're likely to lose some money on #& concert anyway, ikn’t it better to lose with 9000 attending than with 2000? : ‘THe main thing is to get crowds as often as possible! That way you cen attract more people interested in good music and eventually broaden the base of Indiapapolis Symphony orchestra
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THE WEEK'S SHOWS —Up where it says ‘Butler Bowd"™ Dorn, who returns here in "Naughty Marietta" tonight after her. dancing "The New
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triumph
Moon" last month. To the.
right of Miss.Dorn is Fred Lightner, lead in "Naughty Marietta,” with Lucy Gréeno, Mr: Light-
ner's partner, below Miss
comic
Dorn. Occupying the center of the art gallery is James Mason,
gunshot wound is being
whose
"bound up by sympathetic
Dubliners in "Odd Man Out) film opening Wednesday at the Lyric. Top right is Dorothy Hart, looking glamorous and dashing in "Gunfighters," Loew's Wednesday. Bélow center: Billy De ‘Wolfe (right) looks disapprovingly at William Holden and Joan Caulfield n "Dear Ruth,
Lancaster to the right looking alarmed in "Brute Force," which ors Thurs-
day. af the Circle. -
" the Indi-, ‘ana's Wednesday feature, with Ann Blyth and Burt
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‘Odd Man Out,’ ‘Dear Ruth,’ Westerns Top Film Fare
HE week's day at the Lyric,
cinematic honors will probably go te “Odd Man Out,” opening Wednes-
That British film, another J. Arthur Rank production, has won praise from some
of the hardest-boiled critics.
It’s evidently not a pretty thing, but them few chapters of the Irish underground
movemgnt have been pretty. » » » JAMES MASON plays the central character, a revolutionary leader in Dublin who is shot in an attempted holdup to get funds for his band. Throughout the film he is pursued by relentless police. Aided here and there by well-meaning people, he is ultimately cornered in a grim climax The film has been praised for its realism and for the superb acting in minor roles done by members of Dublin's celebrated Abbey players. On. the same bill is “The Sport of Kings” a horse-racing picture, with Paul Campbell, Gloria Henry and ‘Harry Davenport. » » » A SCREEN VERSION of Wednesday at the Indiana. The Norman Krasna play, which has been seen qn the local boards, is getting a trifle out of date, like other wartime comedies. As everyone knows by this time, the story is a comedy of errors growing out of a teen-age girl's writing love letters to an overseas soldier. She signs them “Ruth,” her older sister's name, and incloses photos of’ Ruth,
When Lt. William Seacroft (William Holden) comes home on leave, he calls on Ruth (Joan Caulfield), and then the fun begins. Others in the cast include Billy De Wolfe as Ruth's disappointed shitor, Edward Arnold as her father and Mona Freeman as her letter-writing sister, The other course vn the Indiana's coming menu will be “Philo Vance's Gamble,” & whodunit. A #5 = LOEW'S OFFERS “Gi “The Corpse Came C. 0..D,"” Wednesday. In cinecolor, “Gunfighiers” prownts Randolph
a western, and & whodunit, starting
“Dear Ruth” opens
Scott and Barbara Britton in a screen adaptation of Zane Grey's Twin Sombreros.” The story is. the usual sort of thing about cattle-rustlers and gunplay, all against a vivid western backgroundthis case, Arizona's Painted desert. The cast includes Dorothy Hart, who manages to look glamorous even ‘in ranch attire,
A Screen newcomer,
George Brent and a bevy of blonds are involved in the not-too-serious homicidal proceedings of “The Corpse Came C. O, D.” Besides co-star Joan Blondell, the cast includes Adele Jergens and Leslie Brooks, who are certainly easy on the eyes. . » . THE CIRCLE'S bill for Thursday will be “Brute Porce,” a prison drama, and “Code of the West,” a horse-opera. .
In “Brute Force,” Burt Lancaster is ringleader
.of a prison-break plot, which is ultimatdly foiled
by Hume Cronyn, cast as a tough, sadistic captain of the prison guards. While the men inside the walls are plotting their way out of a fairly hellish
sort of life, their women folks are waiting outside: Yvonne de Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines and Anita Colby. Based On a story by Mark Hellinger, Force” sounds a bit on the rugged side, probably exciting. Until certain policies are decided by local exhibitors, Keith's will probably be kept available, as. it is now, for holdovers. ‘At present, the Keith programs are not announced in time to carry Saturdays. They appear in ads the usual day or so in advance. Neighborhood -bills are regularly listed Wednes-
“Brute but is
Corn Is Rui ning Films
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16—I went to a movie the other night and I got so mad I could hardly finish my popcorn. There it was on the
screen again.
A husband and wife were at the parting of the ways. An obnoxious little offspring followed the man to the door, tugging at his coattails. Then the little offspring started to whimper and finally said it:
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“DADDY, DEAR, why are you!
imad at Mommy?" Just once I wanted to hear the | “Because, you stupid |
husband say, brat, your mother is a jerk!” Bu§ he didn't say it. He never does. And it makes me mad. And {I don't enjoy my popcorn. In fact, “Byron, I'm|
Haskin, and I said,
“This is the break I've een waiting for. This will crack the case wide open.” FIVE: The nasty heroine saying, “Okay—say it. I'm no good.” SIX: A newspaperman screaming at his city editor, “Tear out your Jead yarn and hold for a replate.”
| Or a newspaperman dictating the { headline over the phone. the next day I was still | mad and I met a director, Byron |
Reporters just don't write headlines. SEVEN. The covered wagon train caught 'in- Box canyon with thou-
|going to start a war against corn |g. of screaming Indians out for {and cliches, bromides and banali- [ blood, playing ring around the rosy,
{ ties." “It's a great idea,” said Byron. ~ ” . SO WE TALKED about those ubiquitous: menaces-of motion pic~ | tures and Byron agreed that, in the | | tuture, none of these situations,
| wl be found in thé-movies he di-|
{ rects:
ONE: The situation in whidh|
the only hope of saving the poor little girl suddenly stricken with a dread disease lies with the drunken tewn, y TWO: The gnarled, crusty, heart of-gold stage manager grabbing the leading lady on opening night and sending her _ on-stage with the] immortal words, “Little girl, dance tonight as you never danced be-! fore.”
old doctor in the small!
and the Texas Rangers suddenly appearing from out of nowhere to save them in the nick of time. , ” » » EIGHT. The fadeout with the boy and girl, holding hands, tenderly | facing the sunset. NINE. Clark Gable saying: | listens baby. I'm right for you, see. And no jerk of a boy friend is going to change my mind.” TEN. Gangsters with hearts of gold. ELEVEN. Tough chorus girls with hearts of gold. ; TWELVE. Hearts of gold, THIRTEEN. Passage of time indi{cated by shots of any of the following : : An empty ash tray, and in the next scene, the same tray crammed with cigaret butts; the wind. blow-
THREE: The , district attorney ing the pages off a calendar; a ties facing a couple of pot-bellied poli-| verdant with the wealth of spring, ticians across his desk and solemn- and then the same tree bare against
ly saying, “Wait'll the governor|the snowy blanket of winter
hears about this.”
ter; or Big
Ben tolling midnight on on ‘a. foney
4a ‘and, Ssiurday on The Times amusement page. FOUR: The detective nanying, pin ladon wil
“Now .