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‘Anna Lucasta’ Returns Monday; ‘An Inspector Calls’ to Open On Thursday; Civic Theater Offers ‘Dear Ruth’ on Friday By HENRY BUTLER a THE ENGLISH THEATER will have two important productions next week. First-is this season's return-of ‘Anna Lueasta,” Philip Yordan's play with the allNegro cast, which opens at 8:30 p. m. Monday.
“SECOND 1s The J. B. Priestley mystery, “An Inspector Calls,” starring Thomas Mitchell of
"stage and screen reputation, which opens” Thursday.
The “Anna Lucasta” we'll see this time will have a majority of the original New York "cast, including; © Warren Coleman, Isabelle Cooley,
Duke Williams, Laura Bowman and Frank Wil-.
son, among others. As those who have seen the Play will remember, it concerns a girl whose greedy and selfish family wreck her romance and drtve her temporarily to”seek a livelihood 88 a street-walker in Brooklyn slums. = The idealistic young Southern Negro who loves Anna follows hér, however, and manages to undo the harm her family has done. It's Strong dramatic stuff, well written.
~ » ” THE APPEARANCE of Mr. Mitchell in the Priestley play certainly: will attract’ local theder fans. ' Mr. Mitchell's success in Hollywood
tharacter- roles has greatly extended his au-. t
dience, some of whom may have a chance n Week to see him on the stage for the first ti Judging from descriptions, Calls,” which the Old Vic Theater in London Produced last year, is more than an ordinary Mystery drama. It's complex, sophisticated material jnyolving symbolism as well as melodramg, +
In it Mr. Mitchell has the inspector's role. His persistent questioning of ‘a respectable Middle-clags British family and their evasive Answers produce a tangle of suspicion and Suspense, ‘ Besides “Show Boat,” Feb. 12, 13 and 14, and
\Irvey,” which brings Joe E. Brown back to
Tndianapalis for the week of Feb. 16, the EngIsh Theater's coming attractions will include Charlotte Greenwood in “I Remember Mama, %hn Van Druten's comedy booked here for the
"0 THE CIVIC THEATER will present its FebMary production, “Dear Ruth’ at 8:30 p. m. Bext Friday, to sun through Feb. 14
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seas. correspondence. is. sufficiently. familiar to need no special description. Director Jack L. Hatfield's cast _for the Civic presentation will include: Ruth Black, Donna Leigh Collins, Doris Lytle, Fred Kelly, Phyllis Keyser, Hugh Miller, Bernard Bloom, Patricia Madison and Stanton Pritchard. Next week's most important musical event will be the appearance of Dame Myra Hess, best known English woman pianist of today, with Fabien Sevitzky and the symphony in Murat concerts at 8:30 p. m. Saturday and 3 p. m. Sunday, Feb, 8, v* On - her, first post-war tour of the United States, Miss Hess will be heard with the symphony in Beethoven's Concerto No. 3. Dr. Sevitzky's program for next week-end's concegts also will include Brahms' “Variations on a Theme by Haydn" and Richard Strauss’ “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” ~ M > STARTING with the annual Triad concert at 8:15 p. m. today in the Murat, coming musical events also will include the Indianapolis Symphonic Chair's first 1948 concert at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow in Scottish Rite Cathedral, Ballad-Sing-er Burl Ives’ recital at 8:30 p. m. Monday in the Murat and the Athenaeum Turners” Concert Orchestra program at 8 p. m. next Saturday in the Athenaeum ballroom. Tomorrow's . Symphonic Choir program, directed by Elmer A. Steffen, will be sponsored by the Indianapolis Chapter, American ‘Guild of , Organists, Scott, tenor, and Paul R. Fidlar, organist. The Monday evening, ‘Mr. Ives will present one of his familiar programs of ballads and folk songs, ‘accompanying himself on the guitar. The Athenaeum Turners’ Concert Orchestra, cted by Constantine Borshoff, will have
Harry Sturm, cellist of Chicago's WGN Concert. Orchestra, as soloist. Saturday evening's pro- |
gram will be chiefly of light classics,
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T-Men Look at Hollywood
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31--Uncle 8am's 'T-men are on the trail of several recent Hollywood star contracts, which may be. ruled as income tax evasion. ... - Despité their recent battles, Olivia de Havilland probably will do “House of Mist” for producer Hal Wallis. . . ' Joan Bennett says she'll have a mama this spring for the fourth time. . . .- Deanna Durbin still sn't talking about her separation from Felix Jackson, who is in New York. Even théir attorneys don’t know what will happen
man singing “Prochalda,” a gypsy love song ih “Arch of Triumph.” It's her own .voice, too As soon as he completes “Let's Live a Little,” Bob Cummings is taking his new plane on a halfway round-the-world flight, des-
The $64 question: Is David O tination Egypt. »
Selznick planning to. make ‘a
flock of cuts on “The Paradine rts ase”? to eliminate Ethel Bar.y- YOU'LL BE hearing me rave
more from the picture? for months about Mark HellinE He SR Soa ger's “THe Naked City.” BLAME Henry Wallace for the p40 ¢ ‘ey lk title change on the John Ford- $ the realism I've heen ¢ terian C. Cooper picture, ' War palgning for -—— the kind of a picParty,” now called “Fort Apache.” Mr. Wallace's speech, announcing his third-party candidacy, made
theaters instead of out of them. Here are suspense and real characters that make other mystery “peace party.” The producers dramas look like Disney's were afraid the public would Whimsy. think the film had political impli-| - It's whamsy, brother, and a cations, a {feather in what's left of HollyBetty Hutton is the dark horse] Wood's cap, r Ann Sothern, taking ' ski There's lots of talk about Betty's “Haven't broken any bones vet performance in “The Perils of hut 1° have some ‘Interesting’ Pauline,” released last July, It black and blue marks. ; WAS a great performance, by a kid known until then only as & jatest song title? "If You Were singer. - the Only Girl in the World and Nothing hotter has hit the I Were the Only Boy—OK. But Ingrid
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““This Happy Breed’ at Lyric and ‘Intrigue’ at Loew's on Wednesday; ‘Captain From Castile’ at Indiana, ‘Pirates of Monterey’ at Circle TWO “COSTUMES” in color;-a black-market opus and a Britisher will gleam on
local screens next week.
The costume dramas are: “Captain from Castile,” technicolor version of Samuel Shellabarger's novel (Indiana, Wednesday) and "Pirates of Monterey,” set in Southern California a century ago (Circle, Thursday).
GEORGE RAFT again guy involved in shady operations this time—in “Intrigue”
is the good-hearted black market (Loew's,
| Wednesday) and Noel Coward has produced a
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story of lower middle class Britishers in “This Happy Breed” (Lyric, Wednesday). “Captain From Castile” has Tyrone Power as Pedro De Vargas, refugee from the Spanish Inquisition, who aids Cortez in the conquest of Mexico. Describing De Vargas, the film's press book says: “His spectacular adventures in the battle for gold and glory prove him to be one man among men . ... the. master of the sword and the kiss!”, which sounds like a handy combination of powers, though not to be used simultaneously. . vy » JEAN PETERS is cast in the film as a peasant girl with whom Mr. Power fallx in love Others In the decidedly action picture include Cesar Romero, John Sutton and lee J. Cobb “Pirates of Monterey” teams Rod Cameron with Maria Montez in another adventurous, romance, this one about gun-running and the attempt of Mexican royalists over 100 years ago to grab California. It's evidently glorified horse-
. opera with picturesque background. Besides the
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principals, the cast Includes Mikhail Rasumny, Philip Reed, Gilbert Roland and Gale Sondergaard. : As a black-market operator, Mr. Raft has another chance to demonstrate that his ability to look smooth and sinister is his chief stock in trade. He plays opposite June Havoc, cast
in the role of what the press book calls a "beau- . [the best performance of the year. lessons at Sun Valley, “writes,| HfUl but dangerous woman, Tamara.” Danger-
ous though she may be, Miss Havoc Is, you might say, here today and- gone Tamara when George decides to go straight and opens the black-market warehouse to a mob of starving Chinese. . In the ensuing melee, Miss Havoc stops a bit of lead, leaving Mr. Raft free to
‘pursue his romance with the virtuous Red Cross Berg- Right Now Leave Me Alone.” | gal, Helena Carter, W
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ITS QUI possible that the Noel Coward picture, a J. Arthur Rank release, will be the best—that is, most mature—of next week's film openings. Mr, Coward's “Cavalcade” will be remembered by screen fans old enough to vote. This time he does a study of .a typical smallincome ‘British family in the years between the two world wars, The cast, including Celia Johnson, Robert. Newton, John Mills and Stanley Holleway, probably m seem unfamiliar to most of us. But the sto dialog and settings appear tg be as authentic as possible, - Hollywood may have the edge on British producers in some lines, but our English coy sins do the family-story kind of thing with great tact and skiil.
More Italian Artists Due
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31 =~Americans will soon get a close look at the Italian artisys who have been making some of the world's best movies. Although they are handicapped by nal'onal disaster and lack of equipment and although they turn _out only a few movies, the Italian moviemakers have been getting the lion's share of criti cal honors. v The first post-war Italian masterpieces was “The Open City” and the second big artistic tri umph is “Shoeshine.” A The first Italian sent here was the loveliest Roman of them all; Valli, who has just completed forthe
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-Radioproducers, Jesse L. Lasky and Walter MacEwen. Valli is proud to be leading the avalanche and she has been plumping for an exchange of even more film figures between Italy and the U. 8, David Selznick has already. signed Mario Soldati, a brilliant young Malian director. Vittario de Sica, director of “Shoeshine,” has been taken on
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