Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1947 — Page 9
. 13, 1947
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Essays Sept. 25
of E. M. Forring the war available Sept. race re-issues
ms are such “Notes on the “My Wood” It also cone such - literary is, T. E. Lawand Marcel
Oct. | ' a new book Addams of | be published use.
6 Pianists Movie Hattitude scheduled |
Symphony Books 3 Violinists, Too By HENRY BUTLER
THREE VOCALISTS and three violinists are interspersed among six pianists on Fabien’ Sevitzky's In-| dianapoiis Symphony solo roster for| the coming season. Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan §0-| prano, will sing the voice part in
the fourth movement of Mahler's # fourth symphony with the orchestral:
next Feb. 28 and 29. The two other singers will be Regina Resnik, soprano, and Set
Svanholm, both of the Met, who will}
be heard in duets from Wagner's “Parsifal” at the. March 27 and 28 concerts, . =» violinists will be:
” THE THREE
% Isaac Stern, playing the American
premiers of Benjamin Britten's violin. concerto with Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra Nov. 29 and 30, Jacques Thibaud, eminent French violinist, in the Saint-Saens con-
certo, with Georges Enesco as guest her,
conduetor, Jan. 3 and 4, and Yehuai Menuhin, playing the Bruch concerto Feb. '13 and 14. Thé six pianists are: Sascha Gorodnitzki, in the Liszt E-flat concerto, Nov. 21 and 22; Daniel Ericourt, in Mozart's D minor con-| certo and Cesar Franck's Symphonic variations, Dec. 19 ahd 20. Luboshutz and Nemenoff, piano duo, in Mozart's two-piano concerto in
F and Harl McDonald's two-piano
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13—Keneth Hopkins, who once made a hat for Elsie the Cow and who recently
{beat other hat designers to. the punch with a flying |saucer hat,
is worried about Jane Russell, Jane is a star without a hat to “ her name. And right out loud in print, withoutgregard for the sensitive feelings of miiliners, Jane has let it be known that she doesn’t care about hats. - It's irreverence like that which Keneth Hopkins sleepless A woman's focal point should be her hat, Hopkins argues, i A and Jane's ideas are too painful \ F~ for Hopkins to talk about. “i ‘ wb Keneth Hopkins is a lean, goodMr, Johnson |,okine serious six-footer who sees to it that glamour girls like Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford and Esther Williams look like a million bucks above their eyebrows,
‘He's Myrna Loy’s Designer
RIGHT NOW he's working on a rubberized hat for Esther that she can wear in a swimming pool and still. look as if she were on her way to a cocktail date with a couple of sea bass. For yeas now Mr, Hopkins has been designing hats for Myrna Loy, but so far he has never met Myrna dispatches her maid to the salon and Mr. Hopkins selects a hat from his collection after hearing a description of what Myrna is wearing that evening. Mr. Hopkins told me that he is a hat wolf. He whistles when a beautiful hat goes sailing by. If [it happens to be one that he has made, he winks land says, “hubba, hubba.” Once an actress reported him to a policeman. +
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By Erskine Johnson
“Are you following this woman?” the policeman
lowed “Indeed not,”
her hat."
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women with flatters one woman, that the hat a woman
Most stars, yw that
said Hopkins,
whose heads Mr, he disapproves when them.
looks terrible on will call a hat
“1 was only following
Hopkins adorns, they bring other belief that. if a hat another woman will remark her, The only time divine is when it makes
It's his
her best friend look sawed-off and sallow.
Lamour Tries on o Dozen—Hats
dozen
on
suggested that
DOROTHY LAMOUR_ once brought Edith the dress designer, hats she had. chosen shook her head negatively Almost, Edith dark glasses,”
a hat,
“It's not my
Head to render a verdict on a the day before. Edith each time Dorothy tried ori the verge of tears, Dorothy remove her dark. glasses Edith purred, “It's
along
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just. that I hate hats.”
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afternoon. the other half were Taylor's.
Male escorts, ause Mr was
ned him to
on the other Hopkins works from the male viewpoint his wretchednesg over designing Barbara Stanwyck and Robert long ago bought. 26 hats for Barbara Thirteen were Barbara's selections and
hand, ‘are welconie, his wife's hats thas the first placs Taylor, “Me said, in one
hats in
Hopkins didn’t. turn
an evelash when Barbara wrote a check for her 13 and Taylor wrote a separate check for ‘his choices.
Th
ings like
that happen all
the time between
husbands and wives in Hollywood. . When Diana Lynn and Gail Rugsell @&me in for
hats sophisticated, Mr,
that
them by saying:
“We are not
would make
them look older and Hopkins scared the wits. out of
allowed to serve minors.”
Director's Idea May Revolutionize Film-Making
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13 (U, P.) —,
The answer was that nobody had iting it ramble on naturally
concerto, Jan. 9 and 10; Menahem |pjirector Abby Berlin has hit on an|thought about it before.
Pressler, in Schumann's A minor concérto, Jan. 23 and 24, and Dame
idea that may revolutionize movie- | making. {
Mr. Berlin got the idea when he!
to the, fade-out kiss. " Working on the gave him some *help that
Blondie series! way. |
FLESH AND FiLM—A look ahead at the local stage season gives us (upper left) Ina Claire talking on the phone while Mary Gildea looks on anxiously in "The Fatal Weakness," opening at the English Oct. 2, and (lower leff) Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan opera soprano, who will appear on the Murat stage with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony next Feb. 28 and 29. The family group (upper right) are, of course, from the film headliner for next week, "Life With Father," opening Thursday at the Circle. Irene Dunne and William, Powell are Mother and Father, Under the Day ‘family, the two blondes are Rita Hayworth ("Down to Earth," opening Wednesday at Loew's) and Betty Grable ('Mother Wore Tights," the Indiana's Wednesday feature). Left of Miss Hayworth, the troubled-looking trio are | . (left to right) Tom Conway, Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie i in "Repeat Performance," drama starting
| year,
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‘Life With Father’ in Technicolor
Will Open Thursday at Circle
‘Repeat Performance’ at Lyric, ‘Mother Wore Tights’ at Indians ‘Down to Earth’ Is Booked to Show at Loew's Theater IGGEST screen news for the coming week is the opening of “Life With Father”
next
Thursday at the Circle for a two-weeks’ run.
The technicolor adaptation of the Lindsay-Crouse champion long-run play (they
had to have color to show the family’s red heads) Critics already have acclaimed Mr. Powell's perform=
Powell as Mother and Father. ance as one of his finest to date.
n » ” BY NOW, everybody knows Clarence Day's family as Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse recreated them on the stage. Father, a New York stockbroker of the 1880's, has a redhead’s traditional temper. Only his wife, Winnie, can pacify him, and in the play she has plenty of pacifying to do. Complications arise when Father, an Episcopalian, reveals he has never been baptized. That scandalous oversight for a time threatens the budding romance between Clarence Jr. (Jimmy Lydon) and Mary (Elizabeth Taylor), who has come with Cousin Cora (Zasu Pitts) to visit the Days at 420 Madison ave, But trust Vinnie. She gets everything straightened out. Warner Bros. evidently have gone fo great pains to provide authentic backgrounds, including one huge ger representing McCreery's department store at that time, which appears only briefly in the film Less tied“down than the stage play, the film can follow the Day family to church, to Father's downtown office or to dinner at Delmonico’s. ” » »y “REPEAT PERFORMANCE,” the drama starting Wednesday at the Lyrie, attempts to deal with a big questibn: What would you do if yourcould relive the most important year of your life? The Alm has Joan Leslie as the loving wife of Louis Hayward, cast in the role of a neurotic playwright, It opens with a murder on New Year's | eve, and then miraculously retraces the previous giving Miss Leslie a chance to act somewhat | differently, Even Miss Leslie's best efforts to avoid past | mistakes, however, cannot bring about a happy | ending. ~ For Mr. Hayward goes nuts. So does | Richard Basehart, who enacts an insane poet.
stars Irene Dunne and William
You can hardly blame the doctors. "Too many films attempt to deal with mental matters that be long properly in the @inic, Some go even farther. “Possessed,” with Joan Crawford, carries a faint suggestion that if a woman shoots the man who has spurned her, she may Beat the rap on grounds of temporary insanity, Stock equipment for a movié mental case is some sort of shootin’ arns. You can be sure of fireworks somewhere in the picture if there's any suggestion of mental illness, And “Repeat Performance” has. the usual features. In the supporting cast are Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Benay Venuta and Natalie Schafer. On the same Lyric bill will be “Violence,” with Michael O'Shea and Nancy Coleman.
u ” n HOLDOVERS have postponed openings of twe films described in this page last Saturday. Ome is “Mother Wore Tights,” starning Betly Grable, which will positively begin Wednesday at the Ine diana Latest in a series of films on the history of show business, “Mother Wore Tights’ is about 1905 vaudeville, But since nobody could stand an ene tirely accurate revival of vaudeville 40 years ago, it's furbished up, Hollywood style. Miss Grable, horeover, is a lot slicker and slime mer than vaudeville heroines were two generations back. With Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman and Cons nie Marshall in the supporting cast, the technicolop musical presents such current popular tunes a8 “Kokomo, Indiana.”
” » ” ALSO PREVIOUSLY described here ‘is another technicolor musical, “Down to Barth,” starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks, and opening Wedness
With such unpredictable and irresponsible char« He 15’ making a picture—Coluin- | 28 directing Suotter Blondie | ginee all players re under Fou, : acters at large, it's a wonder things don't turn out " . " or a run- e didn ave to ar- v 't 0! 8 slie. via’'s “Blondie’s Anniversary —in Picture and got an idea Ha Santract, be | 3g | cond a Now It's Amberhumba even Worse for Miss Leslie. . equence from beginning to end. ning gag after he had shot the end Tr nge 2 el : Most directors start in the middle and the beginning and was piecing actor all his scenes at once and get HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13.—When| INCIDENTALLY, Hollywood is getting in bad ind shoot a picture like a jig-saw together the middle, That left no him off the payroll. {Veloz and Yolanda appear at the odor with psychiatrists, according to Paul 8. Nathan, yuzzle. | place for the gag. Mr, Berlin said his method ought New York Roxy theater with the writing in his “Books Into Films” column in Pub“That's silly,” said Mr. Berlin. “If| “I began plotting then,” he sald, to make movies a lot funnier. opening of ‘Forever Amber,” they’ | lishers' Weekly for Sept. 6. Seems like the mind vriters develop a story from the|“to find good reasons for starting Screen laughter ought to be brought! introduce a new dance called the| doctors don't favor Hollywood's hafddling of mental oeginning, why can't directors?” a picture when it starts’ and let-labout with spontaneity, be Be sald. + “Amberhumba.”,. disorders,
day at Loew's. The Hayworth-Parks opus has an unusual plo#, which is being elaborately kept secret in an effork to whet public interest; It won't be giving 100 much away to say that Greek mythology into the story. ge In the supporting cast are Marc Plath, RU Cuiver, James Gleason, - Edward
Adele Jergens, Geuige Macready
Frawley,
Myra Hess, in Beethoven's “Em-
Wednesday at the Lyric. peror” concerto, Feb. 7 and 8. j
A Howard Hits Jackpot HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13.—Eddy Howard, who has headed his own band for only three years, is se F/7 to gross more than three-quarter: of a million dollars this year.
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