Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1947 — Page 9
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Two Programs of Sacred Music Usher in Week’s Entertainment
Sonja Henie's Show Will Continue at Coliseum; Final Performance of
‘Pursuit of Happiness’ Scheduled at Civic Theater ; By HENRY BUTLER TWO IMPORTANT PROGRAMS of sacred music tomorrow will usher in a week of largely musical entertainment in Indianapolis.
Sonja Henie's show will continue, of
scheduled night off for the cast. A FINAL PERFORMANCE of “Pursuit of Happiness’ at the Civic tonight will start a long intermission between stage events. Tomorrow's concerts of sacred music will be Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” at 3 p. m. in the Murat, and the Vatican Choir in two programs at the English Theater at 3 and 8 p. m. The - Mendelssohn oratorio is being ‘presented by Fabian Sevitzky, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir in commemoration of the centenary of Mendelssohn's death, A battery of soloists, including Raymond Clark, Indianapolis boy soprano, will assist Dr. Sevitzky and Elmer Bteflen's choir in. the municipal concert performance of the great composition. Incidentally, next week will be a fairly rugged one for the orchestra, with matinee tand evening concerts scheduled in
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course, at the Coliseum, with Monday the ” ” ” NEXT WEDNESDAY, the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis will present the second program of its current season at 8:30 p. m. in Artist guests will with Clark Brody, Quintet Op. 115 program will include 18, No. 4, and
assisting in Brahms’
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Dvorak's “American” Quartet, Op. 96.
‘Why Do Fans Like Him?
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15 (UP)—Vincent Price has
| analyzed some-10,000 feminine fan letters to him | during the last year,
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Purdue University's Music Hall next Tuesday, and a |
Friday (7:30 p. m., and don’t forget the Sevitzky promptness) and Saturday (8:30 p. m.) pair of programs at the Murat. . n r r DR. SBEVITZKY'S soloist for next Friday and Saturday evenings will be Sascha Gorodnitzki, pianist, who will play the Liszt E flat concerto. Also on the program will be Randall Thompson's Symphony No. 2, Strauss’ “Til Eulenspiegel” and a Theme and Variations from Tchaikovsky's Suite Op. 55, No. 3. The two performances tomorrow. by the celebrated Vatican Choir will bring some seldom-heard music to the English Theater.. Under the direction of the Rf. Rev. Msgr. Licinio Refice, the choir,
the four basilicas of Vatican ©ity! will sing compositions of Palestrina, ‘Vittoria, Viddana and Msgr. Refice. : . i
He wanted to find out why the ladies liked him, hé represented none’ of the virtues and stabilities: recommended for winning friends. After reading 10,000 letters, he still doesn't know the answer. “The only thing I can figure,” he said, “Is that
| women get a great kick out of pictures in which | the male feet of clay stick out all qver the place.
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“That's why heels are so.hot in pictures And Mr. Price says that, in pictures, he has represented all ‘the heels the writers could dream up. ih “Dragonwyck” he was a. narcotics fiend and an egomaniac. 16 “Laigra” he was a sponging wastrel whose only
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In “Song of Bernadette” he’ was a militant
| atheist, iconoclast and sociological nonconformist,
In “The. Long Night” he was a psychopathic
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ARTISTS AND ACTORS—In Mendelssohn's "Elijah," | at 3 p. m. tomorrow-in the Murat, Louise Bernhardt, New York contralto, will be one of the soloists; the Sonja Henie ice show will continue keeping Miss Henie on her toes next week and the week following; Sascha Gorodnitzki, pianist, will be soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony in next week-end's subscription concerts Friday and Saturday, and String Quartet will give the Ensemble Music Society season's second program Wedne:day evening in World War Memorial auditorium, Shots from screen oper show: Mikhail Rasumny as the slightly mad scientist with Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball in "Her Husband's Affairs’ (Loew's, Wednesday); Claude Rains and Constance Bennett in "The Unsuspected” (Circle, Thursday); Barry Sullivan and Belita in "The Gangster” (Lyric, Wednesday), and a not too compatible trio of Robert Preston, Alan Ladd and Dorothy Lamour in "Wild Harvest" (Indiana, Wednesday).
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Madeleine Carroll Turns Producer By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15—Madeleine Carroll and’ her hushand, Henri Lavorel, have turned producers for-a series of documentary films, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will return to the screen in a series of comedy shorts when they return from Europe. Vivian Blaine, so good in those musicals, now wants to be ‘a dramatic star. Frances Langford's agents mmr longer are selling her as a songstress, ex-wife Venita Varden). Jack, il. but as a comedienne. ex-mama-in+slaw and the gal he Hattie Opening Chicken Joint 4 Plans to wed, Vickie Horne, are a . "frequent threesome. Prediction: Joan Davis’ 15-year- ? old daubhter, Beverly Wills, will make na bid for
Frank. Perritt, who once worked in the Pox publicity departmer.t stardom 38 a where’ he had the reputation of comedienn® just as whacky as her being a one-man studio infoirmamother in the film, “Mickey.’ tion. bureau, recently called ine Hattie McDaniel is opening a cafe Studio. One of the telephone onon ethe strip. It will be ca.ed erators greeted him witn. and will feature’ "Gosh, we wish you were back only ham and chicken on the lot, Mr. Perritt, We just, Odd situation in the Jack Oukie don't know what “to do with the household. He shares the place ith calls we don't know what ito do
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‘Her Husband's Affairs’ Features Tone, Lucille Ball in Comedy
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“THE UNSUSPECTED" Circle
Indiana's Attraction Is ‘Wild Harvest’ With Alan Ladd, Dotty Lamour; Lyric Offers ‘The Gangster’ and ‘Palooka’; ‘Unsuspected’ at Circle IF WE'RE TO BELIEVE national publicity of some time ago, “Her Husband's Affairs,” starring Lucille Ball and Franchot Tone, may be next week's best screen
opening.
The comedy, which
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whose sometimes his advertised hair-restorer does The cast is brightened by the presence of Edward Everett Horton, Mikhail Ra Gene Lockhart.
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» n> THE INDIANA ‘ild Harvest,” a fim which has _ Alan Ladd and tims of Dorothy Lamour’s nuthin’ can stir up trouble like between two pals. Fist fights and rough stuff wind up with both pals walking out on Migs Lamour : At the Lyric Wednesday a double bill will include “The. Gangster,” another film on the novel theme that crime doesn’t pay, and a Joe Palooka pictures “The Knockout.”
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Ham Fisher comic strip At long last, the Circle and Marion Hutton “will stage through Wednesday, will
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three weeks ago, that picture has been delayed by several intervening program changes. . » » ~ “THE UNSUSPECTED” brings Claude Rains of “Caesar and Cleopatra” fame, back to the screen in the role of a radio crime-program narrator, Mr., Rains, who is worth seeing in any sort of picture, is assisted by Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett and Hurd Hatfield. From the description
| of the mystery film's complex intrigue, it may prove
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better-than-average in its class,
They Go for Love Scenes
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. § (UP)—Bette Davis believes most movie players enjoy doing a tender love scene, even if it is make-believe. Few are more qualified to speak on the subject of movie love scenes than Miss Davis. She has been involved in them for 17 years and has played 224 different love scenes, not counting rehearsals, during that time. She reached the total by a hasty survey of the 56 movies in which she has appeared, -allowing four love s¢enes to a show. ‘ ‘Actually, some pictures have had as many as nine or 10 love scenes, but, then again, some of them have had none,’ she ‘said. “I believe four is a fair average.” : She said she thought at least four love scenes were essential to a movie. is ‘ “Love scenes give the picture a lift, and they give the on-lookers a lift," she said. “Besides, they give the players a lift. Bvery . player enjoys doing a bit of love-making, and they
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