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JIMMY DORSEY Indiana Roof
“Ice Show, Musical ‘Comedy, Play Offered Entertainment Lovers Here
Other Theater Attractions Include Symphony Concert at Murat;
‘The Drunkard’ at Music Hall and Tommy Dorsey at ‘Circle By HENRY BUTLER NEXT WEEK'S most spectacular opening will be the Sonja Henie ice show at the
Coliseum Wednesday.
“The Red Mill,” Victor Herbert's musical comedy, begins a week at English’s Monday, and Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle’s band have a week at the Circle starting next
Thursday. WITH AN Indianapolis Symphony regular series pair of concerts this week-end and a municipal concert performance of Mendelssohn's “Elijah” at 3 p. m. Sunday, Nov: 16, in the Murat, you have the stage-entertainment forecast. ] Jimmy Dorsey and his band, in a oneg-night engagement tomorrow. at the Indiana Roof ballgoom,
# will play a solid five: hours of dance music starting
at 7:30 p. m., according to the Roof management. Continuing from this week will be the Civic Theater's “Pursuit of Happiness,” which will go on
through next Saturday, and the Tommy Dorsey
show at the Circle through Wednesday. Meanwhile, Barry Breden's melodrama, “The Drunkard,” stays on at Steve Brodey's Music Hall, with performances at 8:30 p. m. daily and Sunday, and an éxtra midnight show Saturday. - » ”
DICK MILLER, Coliseum manager. reports unusually heavy advance ticket sale for Miss Henie's «1048 Hollywood ‘Ice Revue,” which will run for 17 nights. Miss Henie's principal partner in this year’s show will be Michael Kirby, screen actor, who is on leave of absence from M-G-M for the ice-show tour. Other stars in the new show include Freddie Trenkler, skating comedian; Geary Steffen and Harrison Thompson, also Miss Henie’s partners: Gretl and Robert Uksila, comedy-skating team, and Johnny Joliffe.. The” pany of more thaf 200 have been directed again by Catherine Littlefield. The ice show will continue nightly through Nov. 29, except for Monday, Nov. 17, a day of rest for
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” » . A BIT of theater history unfolds Monday evening at English’s when “The Red Mill” starts. Forty-one years. old, the musical comedy originally employed the talents of Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone iff the comic leads. In the 1947 version, Dorothy Stone, Fred Stone's daughter, has the role of Tina, which her mother used to play. Buster West and Charles Collins are the comedy tedm. The cast includes also Odette Myrtil Edward Dew, Sara Ann McCabe, Frank Jaquet, Ear] William,
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Hutton are the headliners of next Thursday's stage opening at the Circle. Also featured will be Toby Dean, vocalist: Pat Henning, comedian, and the Robert Sisters & White, dance ensemble in “Rhap= sody in Rhythm.” Screen feature will be “The Pretender,” starring Albert Dekker. Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony are starting their 11th season together with a most substantial pair of programs this evening and tomorrow afternoon. The Bach-Beethoven-Brahms combination Maestro Sevitzky has worked out will give listeners the best possible demonstration of the quality of this year's orchestra. ” » » THE ORCHESTRA'S first municipal concert of the season a week from tomorrow will be devoted to Mendelssohn's great Biblical oratorio, “Elijah.”
Assisting Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra will be |
Eimer A. Steffen's Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the following soloists: Gertrude Ribla, soprano of the Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati Summer operas; Helen Kendall Crandall,. Indianapolis soprano; Louise Bernhardt, New York contralto; David Lloyd, tenor; and Julius Huehn, Metropolitan baritone,
Killing Off Westerns?
HOLLYWOOD, Noy 8 (UP)—Cowboy star Tex one picture) to produce his own Ritter says the movie industry is deliberately killing films as an independent.
off the westerns that gave it its start.
Mr. Ritter, who has made 75 cowboy pictures in
his career, says the chase is just about over.
“Westerns were the big money-makers in the early Lancaster's
days of the movie industry,” Mr. Ritter said. Mr. Ritter explained happy on westerns, then were in a receptive mood fo features, : : Exhibitors got so many westerns if they many features, And today the features are in, the Westerns out.
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NEXT WEEK'S STARS — Dorothy Stone, of the famed theater family, and Charles Collins provide romantic comedy in "The Red Mill," ‘Herbert musical (English, Monday); Marion Hutton, of radio, screen and stage, stars with Ray Eberle’s band (Circle, Thursday); Sonja Henie brings her 1948 Hollywood Ice Revue to the Coliseum Wednesday; Jimmy Dorsey plays a one-nighter for dancing at the Indiana Roof tomorrow; Hazel Brooks, in "Body and Soul," Loew's Wednesday opening, is a comely addition to Hollywood's glamour, and a trio of pre-Civil War Louisiana socialites in "The Foxes of Harrow (Indiana, Wednesday) are, left to right: Maureen O'Hara, Gene Lockhart and Rex Harrison
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Movie Mail Drops
By Erskine Johnson
C—O I —— | HOLLYWOOD, Nov 8—Hollywood fan mail has dropped 50 per cent, and the Producers’ Association will hire a research bureau to find out why. ’ There's an easier way, boys. Just look at some of the movies| Hollywood has been turning out lately. ... { Terry Hunt, the Hollywood body-builder, and actress Marion Mur- | {ray are altar-bound. — - |
New Star Just Ahead Touring Company | Prediction: Howard Duff will To Open Season
be a big-name star within six months. “The Naked City” is boost- | - Times State Service ing his stock. Ava Gardner think's' BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Nov. 8—| he's wonderful, too, but for other The National Theater Conference reasons. Touring Compahy will open iis seas t uv 8ix feminine department store ign al m pext JY edneaduy clerks, from as many big U. 8 The touring Biri ied iti oy JW i 5 LFO- | cities, will be brought to Hollywood | 4, tion will ‘be Sidney Howard's for bit roles in the film version of a ” comedy, The Late Christopher One Touch of Venus.” Beauty, not paan » scheduled for perfor 4 sales ability, will get ‘em the trip. "Rr pellormances
at I. U. next Wednesday, Thurs-!| | Kirk Douglas is about to become day, Friday and Saturday, as well! an uncle in a big way. All three as Nov. 20, 21 and 22. | lof his sisters have dated the stork.
Soon after Dec. 1, the company | I+ Harry James wants out of his Fox contract (he still owes ‘em
of scholarship-winning drama stu-| dents headed by Prof. Lee Norvelle,| |director of the I. U. Theater, will start its tour. | . . . | Hoosiers in the group include:| will Direct Film {Henry Biedinger, East .@hicago; | Byron” Haskin will ‘direct Burt Jobn F. McMullen, Ossian; Nancy) first independent film, Seward; Bloomington; John F.| lvwash the Blood Off My Hands.” Shaw, West Lafayette; Delano PF. Promised and. hoped for: That, Vickery, Merom, and John Parker, ! r' acting duel: between Dan Duryea Linden. Others include: June and Edmond O'Brien as the no-THarney, Newark, N. J.; Betnl
took so good brothers in “Another Part of Laikin, Detroit, Mich.; Jayne Alice!
the Forest.” They'll probably even Groves, Bloomington, Ill, ichew up the forest. _ (Roger Cleary, Grosse lle, Mich,
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‘Body and Soul’ Scheduled at Loew's, Story of Slightly Crooked Fighter; Lyric Returns ‘Each Dawn I Die’; Circle Offers ‘The Pretenders’ THE SCREEN VERSION of Frank Yerby's novel, “The Foxes of Harrow,” seems to be the most important film opening next week. Pee Starting at the Indiana Wednesday, the picture has a distinguished cast headed by
Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara. ITS STORY concerns a pre-Civil War Louisiana planter (Mr. Harrison) reckless, hotheaded and who falls in love with an arrogant, aristocrat (Miss O'Hara).
But their mariage is far from harmonious As the 20th Century-Fox press book explains, “both know only how to command.” With husband and wife pulling rank on each other, there's small chance for a happy home. So Planter Harrison He goes down to New Orleans and starts throwing away his huge inherited fortune. Things are pretty tough for Miss O'Hara until the eventual reconciliation,
~ » » A PRIZE-RING film, “Body and Soul,” is Loew's feature starting Wednesday. It has John Garfield in the role of a slightly crooked fighter, with Lilli Palmer as the good girl and Hazel Brooks, screen
| newcomer, as the not-so-good girl in his life.
“Pixed” fights and ruthless ambition bring Mr. Garfield money and notoriety. has turned from evil ways and cleared science that he can return to Miss Palmer, the girl he really loves, XN » THE LYRIC is running a double bill of releases beginning Wednesday: “Each Dawn I Die." with George Raft and James Cagney, and "Bad Men of Missouri,” with Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyman. Mr. Cagney plays a reporter who is railroaded to jail although ifiniocent, because a powerful politijan dreads forthcoming revelations of corruption: Mr. Raft 1s a “lifer” who gives valuable help to Cagney in getting important information from other prisoners. It's one of those fairly violent films, involving a couple of prison breaks. “Bad Men of Missouri” concerns prairie justice in post-Civil War Missouri. Mr. Morgan, Wayne Morris and Arthur Kennedy portray three brothers who take the law into their own hands to redress their grievances against a crooked, rich ‘banker (Victor Jory). Miss. Wyman is the heart-throb, ” ” " ’ BESIDES {he Ray "Eberle stage show, discussed elsewhere on this page, the Circle will offer: “The
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an investment broker who gets ail mixed up in
| embezzlement following heavy stock-market losses.
The smarter he tries to be, the deeper he gets into crime, until he finds himself in danger of being “rubbed out” by mobsters. It's a& story of intrigue and suspense. :
Tommy Dorsey's Fans Are
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TOMMY 'DORSEY'S band, now at the Oircle, is as good as his fabulous aggregation in the “Well Get It” and “Boogi oogle” days. The Dorsey fans who like their music in an instrumental vein, clean and sharp, can beat their hands raw’ over Ziggy Elman's trumpet. wizardry,
| more fine trumpet from Charlie Shavers, a power=
house leashed to drums, Louie Bellson, and Tee Dee himself, > A rundown of the best instrumental bits would
on his own tune. “And the Angels Sing.” It's cut down, of course, from the disc version which became a collector's item, but the brief bit is sufficient te make his fans marvel andw. n n ®
HIS FELLOW TRUMPET genius, Charlie Shay ers, is featured on the “Fat Man” solo. To say it's Shavers is to say it's good. Brightest. spot on the vocal side is a novelty, “I Met My Baby in Macy's,” sung by Gordon Polk. This youth is just stepping out of the Criers as a soloist and it’s a good bet that he'll become.s headliner.
Stuart Poster demonstrates his pleasant ] several ballads but strains it. when he trie Man River” Audrey Young, who's nice and also has a voice, does well on the old a Little Tenderness.” a ket The vaudeville relief, a good comie billed fessor Backwards” and the acrobatic Emerald Sisters; are hetter than average but it seems a shame to waste show time on them when you could be hears
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