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NEW YEAR'S. EVE SHOW Indiana Roof
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"MY WILD IRISH ROSE" Circle %
"OUT OF THE BLUE"
Lyric
‘Wild Trish Rose’ and ‘Out of Blue’ Lead Offerings of Coming Week
Circle Feature Revives Lillian Russell and 1900 Show Business; Lyric Vehicle Stars Virginia Mayo; ‘Good News’ at Loew's
SYMPHONY Murat
HERE NEXT WEEK — The gentleman and lady about to do things with that bar chair are the comedy knockabout. team of Reems and Fanchon, who will be the features in the Indiana Roof's New Years Below them is Jacq ques Thibaud. eminent who will be soloist with the Indianap 3 xt veskgnds concerts, guest-conductea Attired in a Lillian Russell selfsupporting gow is Andie King, one of the stars in "My Wild Irish Rose" (Circle, Wednesday). Thosé two entertainers in sombreros are, of course, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in "Road to Rio" ndisna, Wednesday). The cute number on the diving board is Virginia. Mayo, teamed with Turhan Bey in "Out of the Blue" (Lyric, Wednesday). And Peter Lawford seems to be having di fficulty explaining something to June Allyson in "Good News" News {Loew's Wednesday).
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“Stage May Lure Paulette |
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27—Burgess Meredith, who will produce John Bteinbeck’'s “Cannery Row” on the stage, wants to slar Goddard, It depends on her film commitments. Economy ‘note: There will be a capsule wardrobe for Lauren Bacall in «Key Largo'—one cotton suit and one black calf belt—total cost, $75 But the film has ‘a million-dollar cast—Bogart, Eddie Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor the wrong room. Gables blushes Jack Carson and Warner Brothers ys yp half of Sunset Blvd. have just about called it a day Bob Alda's son, Alli, will make Yvonne de Carlo and her mamalyis professional acting debut in had another spat, and Yvonne, Iii «junior Miss” in next season's s huff, flew to Canada. summer stock. Carole Landis and her husband, Greer Garson checked in at Metro Horace Schmidlapp, are sWralning| for “julia Misbehaves,” feeling and at the leash. looking better than she has in Elliott Lawrence, the band leader pn,onths, at the Palladium, and his singer, 8.8 Rosalind Patton, are engaged. | CREDIT SPENCER TRACY with This is Hollywood, Mrs. Jones: the longest uninterrupted film Leo Gorcey accepted the role of a speech df the year. He did a sevenjockey in “S80 Thig Is. New York” minute “take” for “State of the on one condition—that he wouldn't Union” without a flaw, and won a have to ride a hotse. He rode round of applause from evegyone on one in a picture once, was thrown the set. and broke a Souple of ribs. Phil Silvers probably will get the . » comedy lead in the film version of LINA ROMAY wouldn't mind if his Broadway hit, “High Button Jimmy Stack proposed marriage. Shoes.” : Comedy of errors in the lobby! Janet Gaynor is planning a film of the Beverly Hills Hotel when comeback ~via her own producing
wife Paulette
“Clark Gable picked up the. keys to company.
ADVANCE But the Circle's of the Blue,” THE CIRCLE, covly changes programs Thursday so as to give movie critics a break, observes a holiday schedule and is changing Wednesday, as it did last Wednesday. If you like “My Wild Irish Rose,” which song is an indispensable musical fixture of taverns throughout the United States, you, may like the film. The picture's about Chauncey Olcott, first perpetrated the song and had enough demonic energy left to commit “Mother Machree.” It also drags in Lillian Russell, impersonated by Andrea King, and the usual Hollywood dressing-up of stage business as of 1900. (Nobody today could endure the grim reality of stage shows 50 years ago, 50 don't be deceived by what you see on ‘the screen.) Nn n n MISS KING, who probably is some 10 inches smaller in circumference than the late Miss Russell, plays opposite Dennis—Morg#r in the Chauncey Olcott role. From the press book, one gathers that Diamond Jim Brady makes no apearance in the film. Maybe it's tpo soon after Edward Arnold and Alice Faye's opus. There's just a possibility that “My Wild Irish Rose” may be better than the usual films about*the Lillian Russell era. That possibility, plus an in-
which
satiable appetite for movies, may justify your going | | in the hig game of the year,
to sce it, » n ~ “Out of the Blue” hke a buzz _bomb on
PUBLICITY for Wednesday) lands
(Lyric, the
By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27—Myrna Loy whispered today that she is not the perfect wife. She piles things on shelves, hogs the bathroom and kibitzes her husband’s-hair-dos, Miss Loy said it would be worth it to advertise the truth about her married life if it would get her away from the perfect wife label. “No wife is perfect,” she said, any husband.” Miss Loy has had three. to Gene Markey, producer. “We are not without differences,” she said. “But we find ways of working them out. wish I were the perfect wife.” . » » BUT NOBODY can be faultless all the time, Miss Lov said. She also observed that no husband believes in a screen wife who pretends fo be. “As long as I must play wives, from now on I'm going to play them as they are: Sometimes grumpy, sometimes bothersome, sometimes permental, but always human.” » » r THAT'S THE KIND of wife she plays with Cary Grant in RKO Radio's “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.” 1
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amusements desk.
PUBLICITY sort of dims the eves about next week's movies “My Wild Irish Rose,” opening Wednesday, and the Lric 's sarfie day, have got there fustest with the mostest in publicity material.
“Out
It's got Virginia Mayo. It's got mention George Brent, Ann And it runs the gamut Dorothy Parker's
Turhan Bey, not to Dvorak and Carole Landis. of plot - possibilities from (in
| famous phrase) A to B, with plenty of emphasis
who
clothes.” It passed Lhe
on de-nicotinized sex. Mr. Bey is an artist. whom Mr. Bey would
Miss Mayo is a debutante like to have pose for him Early in the film is the line press ‘agents have gleefully quoted, “Okay, Baby take ofl censol press agent sAY, smart Hollywood has
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with the pulled a fast
implication that one this time ” ” » Wednesday novelty will be “Road to Rio,” another Bing Crosby-Bob HopeDorothy Lamour journey. Messrs, Crosby and Hope have the roles of beat-up, small-time musicians who stow away on a luxury liner bound for Rio. They help outwit the machinations of Miss Lamour's wicked aunt (Gale Sondergaard) and forestall a
THE INDIANA'S
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She's a sophisticated Manhattan
| people who never
i she said.
Another musical, “Good News,” will gleam on Loew's. screen Wednesday. It involves June Allyson and Peter Lawford in undergraduate activities in which one issue is whether Mr, Lawford can pass French and hence be permitted to play football It looks like another Hollywood's generosity in permitting finished high school to get a college.
example of
chance to learn all about
‘No Wife Is Perfect,’ Says Myrna
matron who trades her crowded midtown apartment {for a home in the country. “Sometimes I'm almost obnoxious,” Miss Loy sald cheerfully. “For one thing, I'm a closet-hog M$ clothes and hatboxes fill up the closet to the disregard of Cary's wardrobe “I'm a bathroom camper,.too. I spend a lot of time fussing around with makeup and such while Cary wants to shave.” » ” ” MISS LOY also is a drawer-stealer, usurping Cary's bureau drawers to hold her own hankies and nylons. She's a shell-stacker, piling all sorts of odds ‘and ends on top of each other in complete confusion. “You can't blame him for blowing up sometimes,” “And of course he does. And then I get mad, too. Once I threw a ski-boot at him.” That, she said, should dispel any lingering impression of the perfect wile,
» » » IT'S A FAR cry from the 27 pictures in which ghe played a cool, collected, co-operative helpmate who was always more than equal to any occasion: Well-groomed witty and devastatingly desirable “1 can't understand why so many people liked that fictigjous creature,” ghe said, “She was Just too good to live.” on :
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SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1947
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"ROAD TO RIO" Indiana
"GOOD NEWS"
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‘State of Union,’ Timely and Lively, Comes Back to English’s Tuesday
Princeton Triangle Club Offers Satirical Musical Wednesday;
Scottish Rife Presents ‘Messiah’ at Cathedral Tonight By HENRY BUTLER
| of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, | director: the
|
WHATEVI something fol Even the threat of that d Indianapolis this : And Late Christopher Bean” did,
vou to gue estruction
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TUS GOING TO happen when they tear down the
seems traveling plays do no better in box office than “The local theater enthusiasts might
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to have scared road shows away from
as well ‘resign tlremselves
to going to Chicago when they want to see something in three dimensions.
THE UNION" will be ‘back Tuesday, Kay Prancis, of the expressive look in the feminine lead. The LindsayCrouse comedy is probably the only play in theatrical history which has been painstakingly kept up to date by dint of constant rewriting. If you've it, you don't have to be told much It's lively Such details as our hero's reading tomorrow's newspaper headline on tonight's stage give the play a remark~ able reality.
“STATE OF this time with and husky voice
seen it or read about
timely and
” n n NEXT WEEK'S other stage offering will ‘he the Priffeeton Triangle Club show, All Rights Reserved,” at 8.30 p. m. Wednesday in Caleb Mills Hall up at Shortridge. Like most of its prédecessors, this Triangle show is 4 satirical musical. Ite for lampooning is the publishing business. And it involves the 1a] Triangle Club nonsense of hairychested athletes making like ballet: dancers I might a Triangle has hrought This show number of yeal 9
subject
Club occasionally forph amazingly fine creative ability od fr t Indianapolis has seen In a hould be worth going to LJ n ~ TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE of Handel's “Messiah” in Scottish Rite Cathedral will be the only large-scale version of that oratorio here this season. Fabien Sevitzky, who, as a good Brother Mason, has trained the Scottish Rite Symphony Orchestra, will have as choral assistants members Elmer Steffen,
ded that the
Choral Section of Matinee Musicale, Charles Hedley, Scottish Rite Men's Chorus, director, Soloists in program, will be Helen Crandall, soprano: Eleanor German, mezzo-soprano; Willlam Krach, tenor, and Bernard
Constable, baritone 2 » on \ 2 Symphony program will
L-composer-conductor, Thibaud, violinist,
director, and the Edwin Biltcliffe,
beginning at 8:30,
ny NEXT WEEK-END'S bring Georges Enesco, violins as guest conductor and Jacques as his. soloist. Messis. Enesco and Thibaud both represent the great European musical tradition which luckily has
the Indianapolis.
|” | fire—Mr,
survived destruction. Both men have suffered in the Thibaud perhaps more than Mr, Enesco, Thibaud exposed his life to constant risk French Resistance appeared as soloist with Dr. ra last season, Swill conduct overture No, 3} the Mozart D major violin concerto and the \Saint-Saens “Havanaise,” with Mr. Thibaud as soloist, plus his own First Symphony. The concerts in the Murat will be at 8.30 P m Saturday and 3 p. m. Sunday.
Bobby- Sox Revolution
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27 (UP)—A revolution in closed when a Hollywood an autograph
since Mr. as a worker in the Mi, Enesco who Sevitzky and the orchest Beethoven's “Leonore”
hohbv-s0x ranks was di rned down who made adolescent history who could have had a said no, thanks.
hobhbyThe
was Patly
soxXer SOXEeT Lou Arden 18, signature from Rosalind Russell but “1 think autographs are silly,” said Patty That caused a tnajor upheaval on the set of Independent Artist I'he Velvet Toueh.” Rosalind Russell was supposed to be besieged by autographhunting bobby-soxers as she comes out the stage entrance of a Broadway theater. ! Director Jack Gage wasn't up on bobby-sox | trends. He didn't know that among the Hollywood young set, autograph hunting was as passe as last week's dream puss. The 23 bobby-soxers did an unenthusiastic job during the first take. The assistant director asked why and got his answer. “Bobby-soxers don't do that any more,” Patty sald firmly. + Gage consulted his assistants, and then offered to negotiate with a delegation from the bobbyL. soxers. They sent Patty. A truce was worked out. It was accepted by Patty, on behalf of her group, that all were actresses | portraying the less enlightened, less sophisticated | type of New Yor bobby-soxer, who still seek aploerapha
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