Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1947 — Page 9

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Beverly Tyler, Ted Weems Band Will Open at Circle Thursday

Butterfly,” Spike Jones Booked for

Murat; Sevitzky to Start 11th Year Here in Concert on Nov. 8 By HENRY BUTLER

ONLY ONE STAGE ATTRACTION is

scheduled for next week here.

That's the show opening Thursday at the Circle, which will present Beverly Tyler

Ted Weems and his band. Miss Tyler, bered for her

the End.” MR. WEEMS’ part of the show gives top billing | to Elmo Tanner, the whistler heard in, the best- | selling revival of Weems’ “Heartaches” recording. Also with the show are Billy Blair, base and novelties; Shirley Richards and Bob Edwards, vocalists, and Glenn Martin, saxophonist. Week after next will be theatrically a big one. | “Jazz: at the Philharmonic” is billed for Sunday evening, Oct, 19, at the Murat, to be followed by “Madame Butterfly,” the Charles Wagner produc- | tion of Puccini's opera, Monday evening, Oct. 20, at the English.

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” - ~ | “SONG OF NORWAY” opens at English's Tuesday, Oct. 21, with the New York Civic Opera ver- | sion of Gounod's “Romeo and Juliet” playing the | Murat Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 22 and 23, under Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsorship. Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, Spike Jones and his City Slickers will be at the Murat | for one night Oct. 26 It's getting along toward the Indianapolis Symphony season, which generally parallels the year's busiest weeks in the theater and concert hall, In fact, next week is the final week of season- | ticket sales for the Symphony series. Friday will be the last day for patrons to take advantage of the season rate, mccording to Howard Harrington, | manager of the orchestra. - . Mr. Harrington reports an unusually heavy sale |

who is becoming increasingly “The Green Years”

important in Hollywood, will be rememand “The Beginning or

for the season, with only a few seats (none in the balcony) available for the 12-concert Saturday evening series. Seats in all price ranges are still available on the main floor for the Friday evening and Sunday afternoon concerts,

~ FABIEN SEVITZKY * will commence his 11th year with the orchestra when he conducts the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon concerts at the Murat Nov. 8 and 9. A season-ticket or rather membership campaign is also being conducted by the Indianapolis Bach Choir. Now entering its second year, the choir, directed by G. Fred Holler, minister of music at First Presbyterian Church, will present four programs this season in World War Memorial Auditorium. In the final program of the series, the choir and accompanist wil be’ joined by a group of Indianapolis Symphony instrumentalists,

” ” ” THE BACH CHOIR'S first season last year won unanimous critical approval, especially with such ambitious undertakings as Bach's “Magnificat.” This year's programs will be somewhat more varied than

| last year's, according to Mr. Holler.

Membership in the “listening” majority of the choir organization costs $6 a year and entitles the member to one season ticket, according to Mr. Holier. - ‘Inquiries and ‘checks should: be addressed to Miss Katherine M. Rinehart, treasurer of the choir, Postal Station Bldg. Indmnapoiis.

'sam Wood

Blames Audiences At Sneak Preview For Dull Films

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 11—Producer that the trouble with movies is that they're made not to be good movies, but to suit a jaded “sneak preview's audience He said the sneak preview had become a tyrannical sacred cow dictating the entertainment quality of many current releases, “It has come to the point where some producers and directors race back to their studios and start drastically altering or editing their pictures to fit elaborately detailed notes about how the preview audience responded,” Mr. Wood sald » ou n “IN MANY the audience's reactions are not typical at all, It means that experienced moviemakers throw their own expert judgment out the window to follow the whims of the audience which happened to be in the theater at the time of the showing.” Worse than that, Mr, Wood said, very frequently the aud.ence doesn’t just “happen” to be there, n ” a “ALL SNEAK audiences in southern California are more or less conditioned to having pictures ‘sneaked’ on them. They know their reactions are being observed and they usually greatly exaggerate their responses, “If the smeak is held too near Hollywood, it's loaded with movie people, and they don’t react like a normal audience.” 5

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"THIS TIME FOR KEEPS" Loew's

The Indianapolis Times

"WYOMING" Lyric

"JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC" Murat

"DARK PASSAGE" Indiana

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_Lauritz Melchior-Jimmy Durante

Trade Wisecracks in Loew's Film

Bogart and ‘The Look’ in Story of Escaped Convict at Indiana;

Lyric Balances Week's Screen Diet With Western Adventure Story ANOTHER of those big Lauritz Melcpior-Jimmy Durante deals opens Wednesday

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the Melchior, whose public fame is rivalled by

and lavish. More than just a musical, PRESUMABLY Mr. as Metropolitan tenor his private fame as a practical joker, doesn’t attempt to sing But you can bet he

does some comicking besides serious singing.

under water in the aquacade;

The cast also includes Esther Williams, Johnnie Johnston, Mary Stuart, Dick Simmons, Jose Iturbi, Xavier Cugat and his orchestra and Sharon McManus. a romantic misunderstanding beJohnston is resolved be with all that

In the story, tween Miss Williams and Mr harmoniously, as well it might musical talent in the cast, Coupled with she musical on Loew's bill will be “Key Witness,” a mystery involving gambling, murder and the narrow escape of an innocent man from a circumstantial-evidence rap. » » ~ Witwhich

IN SOMEWHAT the same vein as “Key ness’ is the Indiana's Wednesday feature, will be “Dark Passage.” Starring Humphrey Bogart “Dark Passage” tells Jhe story of an innocent convict who- escapes from Ban Quentin prison. The convict, framed for a murder he did not commit, is of course Mr, Bogart, who later undergoes a plasticsurgery job on his face to conceal his identity. The film, based on a Saturday Evening Post story, seems to qualify for inclusion in the grim-and-gripping department. ” AS IF TO BALANCE the coming week's _screen diet, the Lyric opens Wednesday with a new Western, “Wyoming.” ston and John Carroll heading the cast, the film

This Time for Keeps. If you know those two celebrities are in the film,

London,” | a realistic and exciting film version of

and Lauren Bacall,

With Willlam Elliott, Vera Ral- |

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you can imagine it's both musical picture concerns an aquacade show.

concerns a favorite Western adventure-story The battle between old-time cattlemen and croaching homesteaders Other personalities in “Wyoming” (Gabby) Hayes, Albert Dekker, Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya, The~Lyric's co-feature will be an import from England.

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include George Virginia Grey and “San Demetrio It's evid | A new that got international notice in the fall of 1040, ” » » THE RAN DEMETRIO,

with aviation gasoline, was part of a convoy inter-

a British tanker laden cepted by the German pocket battleship Von Scheer Jervis Bay

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toward the Von Scheer in an effort to divert fire

from the tankers Set afire, the San Demetrio had to be abandoned | by her crew. Of those not immediately rescued, 16 drifted for days in an open boat, finally sighting a burning ship, | They rowed to the ship and discovered that it | was, miraoulously enough, the San Demetrio, still afloat. The rest of the story is their incredible feat of extinguishing the fire, repairing the engine and, with neither radio nor navigation instrument sailing the San Demetrio to the mouth of the Clyde river, 11,000 tons of high-octane gas. still safe. ” . ” BESIDES the Beverly Tyler-Ted Weems stage show, the Circle will have a screen feature opening Thursday. It's “Second Chance,” a crime drama involving night clubbers and gem thieves and starring Kent Taylor, :

TALENT PARADE—Beverly Tyler of Hollywood ("The Green Years") will be co-starred with Ted Weems in the Circle stage show opening next Thursday. Other personalities in the flesh«and-blood entertainment forecast are “Jimmy Joy, opening a fournight engagement with his band next Wednesday at the Indiana Roof; Helen Henderson as Cho -Cho San in "Madame Butterfly" at the English, Oct. 20, and Helen Humes in "Jazz at the Philharmonic" at the Murat, Oct. 19. Screen stills show Esther Williams (atop piano). and Jimmy Durante apparently dry and. comfortable on an aq iacaqge pool island in vis. Time for Keeps" (Logw's, Wednesday); Virginia Grey comforting a somewhat battered William Elliott in "Wyoming" (Lyrie;~ Wednesday), and Humphrey Bogart with bandaged face getting the famous "Look" from Lauren Bacall in "Dark Passage" (Indiana, Wednesday).

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Shearing Locks Of Ingrid Bergman

Is Big Operation

By ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1l1-=Ingrid had . her hair cut Joan of Arc role in “Joan” om what .I hear, it was alelaborate and awe-inspire burning the the stake. With jus tators. redricks, the Max Factor I first carefully fashioned for Ingrid. They called in and she put on the wig. I'hen Fredricks cut the wig to the Ingrid and eight

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| see. 1 gave it up” ‘