Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1947 — Page 9

“ROMEO AND JULIET" M urat

“MADAME BUTTERFLY" English

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"DESERT FURY" Indiana

“JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC"

Week Ahead

With Operas and Jazz on Menu

‘Madame Butterfly,’ Song of Norway’ at English’s Theater;

Norman Granz ‘Philharmonic’ Offering at Murat Tomorrow By HENRY BUTLER A BIG WEEK'S AHEAD of us, with both the Murat and the English lighted up

after the past week's darkness.

Two operas, an operetta and a jazz concert add up to a lot more musical entertainment than we comm@nly get in seven days.

ACTIVITY STARTS tomoprow night at the Murat, where Norman -Granzf “Jaze atthe Philharmonic” will play a one engagement, It's a program of jazz for conndisseurs with an impressive roster of experts including: Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax: Bill Harris, trombone; Flip Phillips, tenor sax; Helen Himes, vocalist; Howard McGhee, trumpet; Ray Bibwn, bass, and Hank Jones, piano, i Monday night the MdJrtens Concerts series begins at the English with the Charles Wagner production of “Madame Biftterfly.” Heading the cast in Puccini's opera will be Mary Henderson, Métropolitan Opera soprano, as Cho-Cho-San; and Jon Crain, young American tenor, as Pinkerton. Upder the name of Victor Brenes, Mr. Crain preyiously has toured with Xavier Cugat and his ofchestra. Musical director of McArthur, who formd Flagstad as accompan

’ » “SONG OF NORW life and music of Edy run Tuesday night a Lester-Homer Curran transcontinental tour, It's an elaborate aff Russe de Monte Car and, of course, a

the production is Edwi ly toured . with Kirsten and later as conductor.

» =” /,”. operetta based on the d Grieg, starts a five-day the English. The Edwin production is on its’ first 107 weeks on Broadway. with a group of Ballet artists doing the dances per-saturate solution of PORE wa

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Besides the well-known “Strange Music,” other adaptations in the operetta come- from the Peer suites and such songs as “Ich Liebe Dich.” phrase, if you consider the sound of the from its meaning, almost suggests a threat rather than a promise, ” » ” BEGINNING WEDNESDAY, the New York Civic Opera Co. will present Gounod's opera, “Romeo and Juliet,” for two nights at the Murat under Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsorship.

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The opera will be sung in English, which may increase its appeal. in European operas blocks off a large part of the meaning, a fact William Reutemann, the producer of “Romeo and Juliet” evidently considered when he planned the New York Civic Opera’s version, - ~ " AFTER A WEEK of reasonably serious music, Spike Jones and his City Slickers will blast away in their outrageous fashion for one night at the Murat Sunday, Oct. 26. -Their 15-act show described as completely new, but you can be sure Spike's slapstick symphony will be in the familiar "rugged groove. For the younger generation of theater-goers, Fred Schatz and the Indianapolis Teen Canteens are bringing the Clafe Thee Major Children’s Theater to the Wm. H. Block to. auditorium for one performance of “Sleeping Beauty” at 2 p. m. next ‘ Saturday. : :

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BIG WEEK — In next week's musical stage entertainment are: Jane Aldrich, to be heard in the New York Civic Opera production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Murat Wednesday and Thursday: Alexandra Denisdva, who heads the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo "Song opening Tuesday Lydia Summers as Suzuki ‘in "Madame at English's for one night Monday, and Bill Harris, trombonist with ''Jazz at the Philharmonic,” tomotrow night's Murat program. Topping the screen "stills" are Cornel Wilde and Ginger Rogers in "It Had to Be You'' (Loew's, Wednesday) with an anxious (William Harrigan, Mary Astor and Lizabeth Scott) in "Desert Fury’ (Indiana, Wednesday) and a troubled duo (Robert Ryan and Joan Bennett) in "The Woman on the Beach” (Lyric, Weanesday) below them, In the foreground of a 17th Century theater audience are (left to right) Richard Greene, Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde heading the cast of (Circle, Thursday).

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Dotty Dons ‘Native’ Sarong

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18-~Dorothy there's a murderous gleam instead of tropic love-light in her eyes Dorothy was singing “Queen of the Hollywood Islands,” and tween takes she said, “Brother, this is what I've been waiting for.’

Songwriter Frank Loesser wrote “Queen of the Hollywood Islands” —a brilliant and murderous satire of Dottie's career #8 the movie sarong

queen—for producer Ben Bogeaus', ‘A Miracle: Can Happen.” “I'm almost as smari as Lassie Dorothy warbled, and then she barked. Yes, barked. did they get those awful plots?” Then they turned pn the wind machines and tae walter machines and a hurricane almost blew ner

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‘Forever Amber,’ Opens Thursday

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"IT HAD TO BE YOU" Loew’s

"FOREVER AMBER" Circle

Properly Purified” at Circle Theater

‘Desert Fury’ and ‘Under Tonto Rim’ Share Booking at Indiana;

Ginger Rogers Plays at Loew's While Joan Bennett Stars at Lyric THE COMING WEEK'S most “colossial’ screen event, as Jimmy Durante would

opening Thursday at the Circle.

Everyone who has even heard of Kathleen Winsor's novel will wonder how 20th Century-Fox purified and pasteurized the story enough to avoid corrupting the censors’

morals. APPAR LY they did, and here comes a whole I eircus-parade of costumed kerrickiers from the 17th Century headed Linda Darnell in the of the wanton minx, to use no more telling phrase Amber, as knows by female Don Juan a tavern, Charles II's courtiers, among them Cornel “You ought to be on the stage.” they tell her which was probably more effective in the Century than it is today. Well, she does go on the stage and she packs ‘em in. But she finds that income. and overhead Just don't meet, so she s to depend to some extent on admirers. Eventually she married a rich “earl, who conveniently dies during the Great Plague But just show that a life of frivolity doesn’t pay in the long run. (amazing, the valuable moral lessons you can get from the movies), Amber is left lonely, deserted by her former boy Iriends, at the conclusion,

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» n n A DRAMA and a Western make up the Indiana's bill opening Wednesday. “Desert Fury,” with Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster and Mary Astor, is the drama Miss Scott is cast ag the daughter of a desert town politichl bos Like far too many other girls, she: won't heed her mother's advice or her lover's warning about her associates. Instead, she elopes | with a big-time gambler and gets herself into a lot

| of unpleasantness, such as homicide and ‘auto wrecks. It's only fair to say it all comes out happily. Besides appearing as a Restoration cavalier with shoulder-length curls in “Forever Amber." Cornel Wilde will be seen alzo in ‘It Had to Be You," open- | ing Wednesday at Loew's,

Co-starring Ginger Rogers, the film is a rémarkable fantasy involving dreams coming to life. Miss Rogers enacts a girl who three time has backed out of a wedding ceremony just when the crucial words were about to be pronounced. ” LJ ” THE LYRIC'S double bill Wednesday will be “The Woman on the Beach,” starring Joan Bennett, and “Born to Kill,” with Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak.

In “The Woman on the Beach,” Miss Bennett portrays the discontented wife of am artist recently stricken with. blindness. She meets and fascinates a_Coast Guard lieutenant, Robert Ryan, on whom she uses the ancient line:of being misunderstood and maltreated by her husband. In short, she's bad news. ” » » BAD AS Miss Bennett pretends to be in “The Woman on the Beach,” she's Rebecea. of Sunnybrook Farm by ‘tomparison with Claire in to KIL" Miss Trevor is cast in the rie of what the movie press-book calls a ¥ ’ From press agents, the phrase has real