Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1947 — Page 6

By HENRY BUTLER

3242 | Defy Overcast Skies fo Acclaim ‘Naughty Marietta’ Opening at Bowl.

,ness and then, with an attempt at|popular appeal. It conveys some of’ Saturday night's opening of dignified nonchalance, remove. the the “culture” opera is supposed to|

"Naughty Marietta” at Butler Bow! ! cushions.

was actually a dress rehearsal.

Friday's scheduled rehearsal was Herbert you're likely to seeand as “mortician” takes the curse out; rained ouf, and the weather was! [hear

Snpromising Saturday. « But optimism and advance ticket pales brought 3242 persons to the Bowl for what turned out to be a highly creditable first performance of the Herbert operetta, Centennial officials commented that good weather might have brought another 2000 to the general-admission sections Rain Soaks Cushions Saturday morning's torrent soaked those seat cushions in the reserved section Early « birds

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amusedly | watched late-comers test the damp-

} The show is as: good as any Victor |

nowadays. It's well staged, |with good settings and lighting and | brilliant "costumes, Walter Russell's; movable, reversible, box<like scenery units serve as effectively as they did in “The New Moon.” A Curious Appeal And to offset the outmoded candybox, tinted-postcard romance of the {1910 plot, there are such items as Geneve Dorn's back-breaking dance

routines and the valiant efforts of’

Pred Lightner and Lucy Greeno to exhume .and revitalize the grand-pop-corn of the original comic strip. The word “operetta” hag a curious

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give its listeners, but it takes the’ | 39 curse out of the term “opera,” Just |

lof “undertaker.” If you can absorb some “culture” and still laugh, your | cake is practically all feing. It For all his musical ability, Victor Herbert has a somewhat inflated (reputation. He could write well, !

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but he could also write very badly, J as in the awkward last couple of] bars of “I'm Falling in Love With] Someone,” a “Naughty Marietta”) hit. “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life,”| another NM hit, is strictly up the Jerry Colonna alley, 4 Edith Fellows, winsome, HOME TALENT—Thornton agile as the heroine, did her best los, one of the Indi anapolis with the “Italian Street Song.’ But| ACTOrs in the cast of "Naught y lany soprano sailing into that obli-| Marietta,” Victor Herbert op:

cute and

gato, stating on high C and beloved | eretta now in its week's run af of all second-year: soprano-voice| Butler bowl. Mr. Klos has tha | students, needs the technical equip- role of the governor's sécre- | ment of Tetrazzini or Galli-Curcl, | ‘tary { Otherwise Italian st, like Meridian a Lh st, might as well be closed for ence for next. summer: Musical repairs. | comedy, opera or concerts. | Carroll Wins Aeclaim { Program Space Small As in “The New Moon,” Dennis = A gripe about the one-sheet, pro- |

gram issued Saturday night, Meas- | uring 8'z x 5's inches and carrying | an ad on the back, it lacks space! to list local participants in “Naughty |

Carroll sings with ample volume and | acts plausibly in the role of Capt. Dick Warrington. Lois Gentile,

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dential sub-division where your dream home will be built, Charles Jarvis has arranged for it. On his system map are charted the new pole lines that mark the path of “progress long before construction crews reach the scene. Helping to build up Indianapolis by providing essen: tial Electric service is a vital task shared by more than

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Electric Lines Needed by Our Growing City Are Laid Out by CHARLES JARVIS Long Before Actual Building Starts

add employment and payroll, or opening a resi-

Chicago mezzo-soprano in the role of Adah, the quadroon slave (some-

Marietta.” Most of the 100 or go | performers, including the excellent

[thing awfully 1910-ish about that'chorus, are Indianapolis residents. | {part of the plot), has, I think, the gyen traveling musical shows at {best voice In the outfit. the English list chorus names, In the first intermission, Harry Final suggestion: How about a V. Wade, executive vice chplrman $5000 prize for the best HoosieY |

operetta to be performed next summer at the Bowl? With a jury including outsiders, the award could | be decided on the basis of the | operetta’'s appeal mationally. | There's talent in this state. There's | also history. I'll bet you five bucks | that Indiana can produce another | Oklahoma." .

of the centennial commission, pald {tribute to the late Mayor ‘Tyndall ‘as the originator of the summer |opera plan for Indianapolis Mr Wade also introduced J. Charles oy [Gir general manager of the {centennial program. In closing, he [urged patrons to “THdicate. oir the’ iprinted cards supplied, their prefer-

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BUTLER BOWL “Naughly Marietla,” Herbert operetta. with Edith Pellows, Dennis Carroll and others, at 8:45,

CIRCLE “Tarzan and the Huntress” Johnny Weismuller Brenda and Johnny Sheffield, at 11, 4.40, T00 anda W320 “A Likely Story" t Hale and ii “Wiliams, 3:10, 6 and 8:5

INDIANA with Errol Flynn H Btanwyek, at 2:4), 3:58, 7 and 10:10 “Little Miss Broadway,” Porter; at 11:35, 2:45, 5

KEITH'S “Kit Carson,” Parl and Dana Andrews, 3.60, 7:05 and 10:15 “The Last of the Mohicans,” Randolph Scott, Henry Wilcoxon, and 8:50, .

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Barbara at 12:20,

with Jean 55 and 9

with Jon Hall, Lynn at 12:30, with

Binnie Barnes and at 11, 2:15, 5:30

LOEW'S “The Romance of Rosy Ridge.” with Van Johnson and Jahet Leigh, at.-12:33, $v S38 2A, “The Thirteenth i Righard Dix, at 11, 2 "5 16 wil 8

LYRIC “The Vigilantés Return.” with Jon Hall, Margaret Lindsay and Andy Devine, al 12:20, 2:30, 5:20, 8 and 10:40 “Stepchild,” with Brenda Joyce Donald Woods and Terry Austin, at

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