Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1947 — Page 9
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"ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST" English
"KING COLE TRIO" English
‘Another Part of the Forest’ Leads Offerings for Next Week on Stage __
Lillian Hellman Scores Again in Her Prolog to ‘Little Foxes’; Patricia Neal to Play Lead in Theater Guild Opener at English’s
By HENRY BUTLER THE SEASON'S second Theater Guild play, “Another Part of the Forest,” leads
the coming week's stage offerings.
Opening a three-day run at 8:30 p. m.
next Thursday at the English, the Lillian
Hellman play is described as a prolog to ‘The Little Foxes.”
~ = ” “THE LITTLE. FOXES,” popularized on the stage by Tallulah Bankhead and on the screen by Bette Davis, presents a grim picture of a moneyhungry, mutually jealous family. “Another Part of the Forest,” set also in Alabama, presents the same Hubbard family 20 years earlier. In 1880, Marcus and Lavinia Hubbard, parents of the “Little Foxes" generation, are still alive. Local audiences will see Carl Benton Reid ¢Life With Father”) in the role of treacherous, universallyhated Civil-war-profiteering Marcus. Mildred Dunnock, who has had roles in “Lute Song,” “The Corn Is Green” and “Foolish Notion” during their Broadway runs, will enact Lavinia. n LJ ” THE ROLE of Regina (the Bankhead-Davis character in the later part of the Hubbard saga) will be played by Patricia Neal, who won the New York drama critics, Look magazine, Donaldson and Antoinette Perry awards for her Broadway performance in the part. Miss Hellman, playwright-biographer of the Hubbard clan, has the enviable record of five big hits out of six plays produced.
a " » ELSEWHERE on the local stage, those two
" Washington hostesses will be verbally and schem-
ingly slugging it out through Thursday up at the Civic in “First Lady.” There's always the possibility, as in previous Civic seasons, that the play will be held qver for an extra performance or. two. Handicapped by the recent and unavoidable loss of the workshop wing of the theater building, the _ Civié staff and actors will begin work on their second production as soon as “First Lady” closes Por November, Director Jack Hatfield hasgscheduled “The Pursuit of Happitess,” which will Nov. 7.
” NEXT WEEK'S music opens with one of the country’s best-known informal chamber-music out
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fits, the King Cole trio, at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at the English, Winners of awards from Esquire, Downbeat, Metronome and Orchestra World, the trio will need no introduction to local audiences, Their recordings for Capitol have made them famous. Anticipating a capacity crowd, Entertainment Enterprise, Inc. the local sponsors of the trio, are providing extra seats in the orchestra and on the stage. » n
» LATER jn the week, the Indianapolis Matinee
Musicale will present, as a feature of their Presi- | dent's Day program, Vera Appleton and Michael |
Field, duo-pianists, auditorium, Besides classical works of Frescobaldi, Mozart and Schtibert, the duo will present romantic and modern compositions, including Khatchatourian's “Saber Dance.” Abram Chasing’ “Carmen” fantasy, the duo 5 own transcription for two pianos of the Kreis-ler-Rachmaninoff = “Liebesleid” and Ravel's transcription of “Les Fetes” by Debussy.
Films’ Most Modest Bath
HOLLYWOOD (U. P.).~~Maria Montez, who has splashed in many. a movie bathtub, is taking the most modest bath in movie history. The tub is a. mid-17th Century model with flaps of copper that fold over to cover up everything but her head. The lovely star's fourth screen bath is for Douglas Fairbanks’ “The Exile” at Universal-International.
at 2 p. m. Priday in Ayres’
_ A bathtub first made Maria famous when she |
dunked In it in Wdlter Wanger'sq"“Arabian Nights” six years ago. The picture shot Ber from obscurity to a top box-office star. People kept hoping for another bath, kis 4
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"GREAT EXPECTATIONS"
Lyric
"MERTON OF THE MOVIES"
PERSONALITIES—The stage side of tainment offerings brings Patricia Neil, Scott McKay and Wesley Addy as Regina, Oscar and Ben Hubbard to the English Thursday night in Lillian Hellmar's "Another Part of the Forest." Fletcher King has the role of George Mason in "First Lady," the Civic's current production. Oscar Moore, quitarist: Nat Cole, pianist, and Johnny Miller, bass, compose the King Cole trio, in concert at
Loew's “
the coming week's enter-
"SLAVE GIRL"
Circle
"SOMETHING IN THE WIND"
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Donald O'Connor
"Something in the Wind."
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8:30 p. m. tomorrow at the English. Coming films present: Valerie Hobson in "Great Expectations’; George Brent and Lois Collier in a scene from "Slave Girl": Gloria Grahame and false-whiskered Red Skelton are pictured above in a corny flicker sequence of "Merton of the Movies," and Deanna Durbin is shown watching Hoosier
himself ‘out in a dance number from
Fuzzy Bogart Fuzzy Again ‘Great Expectations,’ British Film,
And Warners
Bogart has all his hair back:
By SRSKINE
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 4—Fuzzy Wuzzy is fuzzy again.
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A few months ago Bogie almost joined Bing Crosby, Pred Astaire apd other members of the Hollywood Dome Dolly set.
Bogie's hair started coming out
in handfuls and the screams of his
movie bosses, the brothers Warner, could be heard all the way
to Catalina Island ori a quiet day Baby Bacall looked at the guy che married one morning after he had combed most of his hair onto the bathroom floor. and promptly went out and bought him a phonograph record titled, “Puzzy Wuzzy Wasn't Fuzzy Was He" Bogie pulled a yachting cap down over his ears and went to a doctor. The medico looked him over and said: “A vitamin deficiency. We'll give you some shots, Don't worry. You can qualify for the House of David baseball team yet.” " ” » BOGIE TOOK the shots, played Wuzzy Wasn't Fuzzy Was horror of the brothers Warner, the doctor told him the same thing had happened to a number of people who worked Brothers studio, and
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insisted
at Warner continued to wear his yachting cap pulled down low. Finally a fuzz appeared. Bogie is now happily displaying his new luxuriant crop of hair. “Dark Passage’ is the current Bogart-Bacall team vehicle and as usual, the Bogarts go in for some {heavy necking and some heavy |drama, with Bogle playing an lescaped convict and Baby helping him avoid the bloodhounds against 'a 8an Francisco background.
» » . BOGIE SAID he had a rw angle jon this hushband-and-wife screen
romancing. A couple of kids got All it has 1s a flag and a com- fo nis autograph one night outside a'modare.” : : i
Hollywood restaurant and then one] of them said “Mr. Bogart, we like the idea of your making to Miss Bacall.) When you kiss we know it's real.” Baby smiled approval. - But her! expression changed when Bogart, started talking about that movie he made with Lizabeth Scott, “When 1 worked with Lizabeth Scott,” , . . Bogart started to say.| Then he seemed to remember! something and looked at Baby. | Bogart started talking about something else and Baby looked just Hke Stan Laurel: looks after Oliver Hardy has slipped on a ba~ nana peel. Bogart never got back to Miss Scott. » » n THE SANTANA, their 65-<foob sailboat, and yachting are the Bogarts’ favorite topics of conver Bogle is still mad at Warner Brothers for putting him inte a picture so he had to pass up tne Honolulu - yacht: race. But he swears - he'll be a contestant in 1948, when it's staged again, { Right now he’s the cabin boy of] the Emerald Bay Yacht Club, the most exclusive yacht club. in the| world. | “It was organized” Bogie ex-| |plained, “for show people who hate lyacht clubs. There's no clubhouse, mo dues, no membership fees, no dinner dances on Saturday nights,
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PPY. To Open Wednesday at Lyric
‘Something in the Wind’ Is Coming to Indiana; Red Skelton Film Will Show at Loew's; ‘Slave Girl’ Is Due at Circle Theater
THE BRITISHERS are still coming.
J. Arthur Rank's .production of “Great
“Expectations,” opening next Wednesday at the Lyric, is another sample of England's
post-war movie output,
Despite some deserved criticism of British films on the ground of slowness, by American standards, the Britons give their movies artistic polish. “Great Expectations” should be a worthy successor to other big films made from Dickens novels.
” THE STORY is well enotigh known to need no summary here. Names of the characters will bring it back to vou: There's Pip, the youngster whose great expectation is to inherit wealth, There's Estella, who's been trained by half-crazed Miss Havisham to distrust all men. Hero and heroine, grown up, are portrayed in the film by John Mills and Valerie Hobson, Judging from the advance press material, the film “doesn’t include the ghastly scene from the You may remember the wedding-feast room, table still set, where she would parade in her bridal outfit. (8he'd been jilted many years before) You may remember also the time she accidentally sets fire to all the decaying, cobwebby remains, It would be sort of rugged in the movies, ” n ~ LIKE “Great Expectations,” “Something in Wind.” starting Wednesday at the Indiana, dently belongs in ‘the “family” picture category, In fact, the coming week seems to be definitely one for movie-goers of all ages. After so many prison breaks. breakdowns and lost, strayed or stolen week-ends, some reasonably wholesome stories shine in welcome contrast, “Something in the Wind” brings Deanna Durbin
the evi-
| and Hoosier Donald O'Connor together in a some-
what wacky musical, with John Dall cast as Miss Durbin’s frantic suitor, Deanna portrays a radio disc jockey (Who says Hollywood doesn't have a new idea now and then?). She also gets a chance to do some singipg. : Way down in"the personnel list is the name of Jan Peerce, Metropolitan tenor, whose singing should alone be woph the price of admission, Mr. Peerce has the role of jail turnkey who likes sing opera. . 7 The story requires Mr. O'Connor to do some of
Siciicm his over-strenuous acrobatic dance routines. From available evidence, the picture is, in Somerset Maugham's phrase, “the mixture as before,” stirred a liittle differently,
n » ” A NEW FILM version of “Merton of the Movies,” this time with Red Skelton in the title role, will open at Loew's Wednesday. With Virginia O’Brien as the “best-pal-ande severest-critic” wife, in the stage play's words, the picture again unfolds the story of a small-town theater usher who gets filmstruck way back in pre= sound days. His eventual success in Hollywood is different from what he'd hoped. It takes Merton some time to catch on to the fact that people find his most serious and sincere acting screamingly funny. When he does find out it takes all his wife's persuasiveness to keep him from going back home in despair. She finally cons vinces him comedy is an art, too. “Merton” “evidently belongs also on list.
the family
rr ” ” THE CIRCLE'S oflering for Thursday is a new technicolor fantasy, “Slave Girl.” Starring George Brent and Yvonne De Carlo, the film goes back to Barbary pirate days in the early 1800's. Mr. Brent, with s trunkful of gold, is sent by the United States to buy the freedom of some American sailors held by sh wd Needless to say, Mr. ‘and Broderick Crawford, get tripped uf their efforts to recover the lost gol selves and their compatriots out ‘of the :counte) they become acquainted with such Mears as Miss De Carlo and Lois € ier : in these matters, Hollywood pe