Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1947 — Page 9
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Hatcher, stage star of "Oklahoma," who appears with 40 Paramount stars in ‘Variety Girl," the Indiana's Wednesday opening. With a cast including the two familiar gents in racetrack suits, Messrs. Hope and Crosby (above center), the film will have a special benefit premiere at 8:45 p. m. Tuesday, sponsored by the
Summer Opera Sponsors Look Local Talent on Stage to Feature
[UCR ROACTG W,
o 1948, Urge Early Planning
By HENRY BUTLER
Before the echoes die out in‘ Butler Bowl, let's talk again about next summer. The Centennial commission this week sent a memorandum to the Indianapolis Theaassociation urging the association to get busy right away on plans for future summer seasons. This vear’s experience, said t he memo, showed the need for starting early.
” » - A LATE START handicapped this ear’s initial program Important Mecisions weren't reached until about he middle of May. As a result, hings had to be done in a hurry, nd it may turn out that this seaon's probable deficit ‘was in part ue to haste in planning. Official figures on this first season re not yet available. Unofficial stimates of the probable deficit run high as $26,000, which sounds ike a lot, but there are a lot of tors to be considered. ” . » v MORE TMPORTANT perhaps an the deficit, which is expected any first summer season, is the t that the program went over vell., It drew an estimated total f more than 100,000 persons to Butler Bowl during the five weeks,
nd. it showed even the hardest-|
fled pessimists that Indianapolis an put on something first rate, sing to a large extent local talent. The Centennial commission's emo suggests four operettas for ext summer. That's a lot of opbrettas, It also soft pedals the oncerts, adding the comment that oloists in future concerts should be drawn preferably from popular dio artists, 3
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would note the difference between the summer orchestra and the.Indianapolis Symphony. » r r THE FULL SYMPHONY cost a. lot dough $10,000 a week). But music is one department where
would more (around you can't cut costs and still have quality. To be successful, the concerts have to draw big crowds. That's the
reason for the Centennial rommis-
sion's suggestion about radio stars. But please note that this season's
largest concert audiences came to)
hear Abram Chasins in an allGershwin/®program and William Kapell in an all-Russian program,
both of them pianists and neither]
of them classifiable radio stars,
As popular » ” » TRUE, the audience stayed awa: in droves from Jennie Tourel's solo appearance with the orchestra despite Miss ToOurel's magnificent artistry. scene certainly sonality, ’ Radio artists or no radio artists, the way to draw crowds is to get soloists who always do draw
either for a popular
Lanny Ross, radio per-
But there. was no mob Bight
THE SUCCESS of Dr. Sevitzky's Aida” has started requests for Carmes”’ next summer. Certainly the maestro could pack ‘em in again with Bizet's masterpiece Sandwiched between more serous items, the summer season ai have some money-makers, such as big mame bands.. I'd suggest Duke Ellington for one. Fred Waring grossed $19,000 at Butler fieldhouse last, September, with, of course, a higher price scale than the Bowl} has had. A few such moneymakers, would diminish the deficit.
Ld » ~ THE SUGGESTION has been made, and I think it’s a good one, | that the Theater assocfation should | appoint agents in nearby cities, Salesmanship as well as artistry is needed to make our summer season a financial success,
Eight Productions On I. U. Program
Times Kiate Nerviee
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 23. dramatic productions will make up the 17th season of the Indiana university theater as an-| nounced today by Director Lee Norvelle. | Plays listed by Dr. Norvelle for| |{the coming season are: “Boy Meets
. LET'S REMEMBER a couple of crowds—soloists like Heifetz, Horo- Girl” by Sam and Stella Spewak,
hings about this year's
concerts. Witz, Rubenstein and others whom | October ; “The Sacred Flame,” by| hey, undoubtedly lost money, but the Symphony can't afford to hire|Somerset
Maugham, November;
's & mistake to assume therefore/during the winter because the “Apple of His Eye,” -by Kenyon
that the public will not support ture concerts. First of all, the ncerts have to be good. ‘Even ' Fabien
Murat is too small. ; Marian Anderson or Dorothy
|Nicholson, December; “Joan of] Lorraifie,” by Maxwell Anderson,|
{Maynor would get a bigger turnout January; “Morning's at Seven,” by| Sevitzky couldn't than even “Alda” did. As I've said Paul
“Jordan |
February, i
Osborn,
miracles with this summer's before, if the concerts are likely to River Revue,” March; “The Barretis
which was frankly bad injlose some money anyway, it's far of Wimpole Street,”
April, and,
des being too small. The better for ‘everybody that the “Skylark,” by. Samuel Raphaelson, person in an audience audiences should be huge. ; !
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May.
Indianapolis Variety club. is Jane Greer, ohe of the stars i ing Thursday at the Circle. 1 introduction: They re Myrna Lo and William Powell, in At lower 1
Teresa Wright that even his
terrier
Loew's Wednesday
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In the fancy dinner dress (upper right)
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Song of the Thin
ower left need no wire-haired tarting at ght, Prof, Ray Milland learns from
the famous Mar
book on feminine p holoagy
m is The Trouble With Women
opening Wednesday at the Lyric.
‘Variety Girl’ Premiere Tuesday
S Billboard would crudely put it, there's not much “flesh” in the coming week's en-
tertainment.
Butler Bowl hag gone back to the grass-growers, who will re-sod and otherwise repair damage done by the summer program to the south end of the field. pa
y vy ~ NEXT SATURDAY variety
an outdoor
show will open at the fan
grounds as a feature of the state
Just Buddies
By Erskin
e Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23.—There was a miracle not in the script on
“The Miracle of the Bells” set.
Those old feudists—yours truly and
Frank Sinatra—were talking in amicable tones as four press agents
beamed approval:
Frank was wearing a pontifical look and the robes of a Catholic
priest fof his role as Father Paul.
warden's helmet and holding a
baseball bat behind my back. Last |
December the voice that whispers soft love ditties was bellowing harsh threats at me: “Just continue to print’ les about me, and my temper—not my
temperament’—will see that you |
get a belt in your vicious and
| stupid mouth.”
But Frankie umnist,
instead of slugging me, slugged another colLee Mortimer. In
Anyway, Mortimer landed on the front pages and all T got was a bill from Western Union for $3.89. Frankie sent that threatening telegram collect.
But now Frankie is sorry and
apologized, and his four press agents had explained, “He’s highly emotional. He gets excited. He was on thegxerge of a nervous breakdown.”
I put on my air raid warden's
helmet and grabbed a baseball bat |
when I heard that kids under 18 years of age would not be ad-
the | California smog, I guess Frankie | thought Mortimer was Johnson, |
1 was wearing my old air raid
mitted to Prankie’s radio broadcasts this fall. Frankie wants a { build-up as “a serious and dignified singer » The bobby soxers who put Frankie where he is today already are writing me, “I think “Frank Sinatra is getting too big for his boots. After all, if it wasn't for the bobby soxers there wouldn't be any Frank Sinatra.” “What about it?” I asked him, rough like, . . Prankie’s four press agents turned pale and people on the | set started looking for the “Exit” { signs. ‘I was glad 1 was wearing that helmet and holding that | baseball bat. “It’s not my idea,” Frankie said. “And I don't think it will stick. { It's the sponsor's idea and I think
{| by the time the program starts |
theyll lower the age to 14.” 80, bobby soxers, I guess there's | still hope. Frankie hasn't de- | serted you yet. About, that “serious and, dignifled singer”. stuff Frank said, | “That's a lot of baloney.”
fair. Local talent will tread the boards at the Indiana Tuesday night in a teen show preceding the Variety club's benefit Girl.” Starting at 8:45 p show will present Barbara Kershaw
and Joan Wildridge, vocalists, Patly
premiere of “Variety
m., the stage
the professor, You neednt be told that romance finds its-place Blackmail” is a gangster picture with. William Marshall, Adele Mara and Ricardo Cortez, ld n y THAT AMIABLE PAIR, William Powell and Myma Loy, not to mention the wire-haired terrier, return in another “Thin Man” picture opening Wednesday at Loew's, It's called “Song of the Thin Man,” and mingles crime with music. The plot concerns the murder of a bandléader on an off-coast
plenty of excitement in solving the mystery On the same bill is “The Adventures of Don Coyote,” a western. ” ~ ~ THE CIRCLE'S feature starting Thursday will be “They Won't Believe Me." It presents Robert Young as the suspected murderer of his secretary, With Mr. Young on the witness stand, the film flashes back to scenes from his narrative concerning the women in his life, who include Susan Hayward, Jane Greer and Rita Johnson. Also
\Joy, Donald Shelhorn and Easley gq pling ship. As Detective Nick'in the cast is Tom Powers, Broad-
Blackwood, pianists, and the Teen chorus, directed by William Moon Ta sa F “VARIETY GIRL" five-alarm picture that called all the stars on the Paramount lot Its » kind of Hollywood Who's Whe vou'd ever expect the: start of a Alm presents Mary Hatcher of “Oklahoma,” In
out
to see listed at A musical, it stage star
usual storm and stress, finally lands a contract Following proceeds of which will go to the
Tuesday's premiere,
Charles, Mr.
Scheduled by Park
Free concerts and dances are
Powell goes through
way actor.
"ive Free Concerts and Dance
Department
again on the park and recreation
with more big names than geoartment’s program for the coming week, with the American Feder-
ation of Musicians furnishing much of the music.
A 3l-plece swing band, George
Smith and Dottie Barlow, with members of the band contributing instrumental « solos,
Freije directing, will present a pro-
the role of a gram of popular music from 5 to 7 p. m. tomorrow at Garfield amphiHollywood aspirant who, after the theater under A. F. of M..sponsorship.
Vocal soloists will be «Ruthie
Hal Bailey and his orchestra will
play at Keystone center, 7256 8.
Variety club's tharity fund, the film! The Indianapolis Concert band geysfone ave, Wednesday night, |will open its regular run at the will present another Garfield am- with Strut Hut canteer in charge.
Indigna Wednesday. i yom» | THAT SAME DAY, the Lyric {opens a double bill of “The Trouble | With Women” and “Blackmail.” -
about women. In fact, he's written ‘a book called “The Subjugation of |Women.” Teresa Wright, playing
(opposite, is a newspaper reporter ‘assigned to the task of de-bunking
| “The Trouble With women” has |Ray Milland portraying a bachelor M. auspices will start with Johnnie college professor who has ideas Howell and his band playing Mon-
phitheater program at 8 p. m. to-
!morrow, with Walter Reuleaux con-|
| ducting and Joan Wildridge as vocal isoloist.
Four free dances under A. F. of
day night, at Eagle creek, | Larry Bingham and his band will {be featured Tuesday night at Gar[eld center. ;
in
| Lynn Williamson and band will | accompany dancing at Broad Ripple terrace, with Mary Lou Wil. liamson as featured solovox artist and Truk On Inn canteen in charge. > ” Made possible by the co-operation of Local ‘3. A. PF. of M, John Gol, secretary aod tregsurer; all dances’ rur. from 8 to 11:30 p. m.
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