Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1948 — Page 9

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Three-Day ‘Show Boat’ Revival,

With Cast of 128, to Be Sell-Out Huge Production to Run at Loss; Passion Play Opens Feb. 15; Joe Brown's ‘Harvey’ Due Feb. 16; Menuhin With Symphony “By HENRY BUTLER ~~ PROBABLY the most elaborate show we'll see and hear this season 1s the “Show Boat" revival, starting its three days at English’s next Thursday. The show is so costly that it will operate at a loss here, partly because of the short run, partly because the English is too small, according to the advance agent.

UNDOUBTEDLY: it will be a sell-out, with [nail order business unprecedently brisk, accordto Vincent Burke of the English. Its cast of 128 actors, singers and dancers is

Venal,-and Martha King as Julie. Other featured Players include: Sammy White, Bertha Belmore, Liars Alden, LeVerne French, Fred Brookins, ohn Dowdy, William C. Smith, Fred Adath, ack Daley and Sara Floyd. ~ ~ »” A SERIES of 15 scenes and, of course, the Unforgettable Jérome. Kern score, now reorchestrated by Russell Bennet, make “Show Boat” the musical no one will want to miss. In a quite different category of dramatic presentations is the Black Hjlls Passion Play, which hi open its first Indianapolis visit since 1941 Fa a 2:30 p. m. matinee in the Murat Sunday, the, 15. The play will remain at the Murat sc sh Monday, Feb. 23, with perforniaites ,rchtduled for 8:30 p. m. daily. Previously moted ‘here are the week's return an E. Brown in “Harvey,” starting Feb. 18, ot the engagement for another week of Char- a at ¢ Greenwood in “I Remember Mama,” also the English starting Feb. 23. . » ” *

THE APPEARANCE of Dame Myra Hess as

» 8oloist with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis

Symphony at 8:30 p. m. today, 3 p. m. tomorwith will be followed by Yehudi Menuhin's visit h the orchestra next week-end. Mr: Menuhin will be heard in Bruch's G minor neerto for violin. Orchestral works in the first half of the proHog will include Goldmark's “Sakuntala” OverJaca Nd a full-orchestra premier of Frederick APES “Two Pieces in the Sabbath Mood.” with Jacobi present at the concerts. The two com-

Positions have been selected by Dr. Sevitzky in

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Americans Getting Bigger,

honor of the current National Festival of Jewish Music. Part II of next week-end’s programs will be devoted to Scriabin’s Symphony No. 3, “Poema | Divina.”

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HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 7--If movie stars are representative of average Americans, the United States =oon may be peopled by glants, Ernie Haller, who has been photographing men and women for 30 years, says they're get--

| ting bigger all the time.

| dozens of over-six-foot

| ages Haller said.

Haller started photographing movies. such “normal-sized” men as Richard Barthelmess. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Charles Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino and Harrison Ford were cavorting on the screen. : But today. in Warner Bros. “Winter® Meet~ | ing.” Mr. Haller is photographing one of the leading men, six-foot- | three-inch, 193-pound Jim Davis. . » . WITH HIM in the scene is Janis Paige, who stands a moavie-star average height of five feet | six inches. { “That's as tall as the men were, 25 years

When Mr.

Mr. Haller said he began to notice how much | bigger people were getting when he Was photo-

| graphing “Gone With the Wind" in 1939—a | job for which he won an Academy award.

“clark Gable loomed so big that it made an impression on me and on a lot of other péople, 1 guess.” he said. ! Cr But now Gable is dwarfed by such actors as Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Cary Grant, Jim Davis and many others. Si v

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CURRENT AND FUTURE—Up where it says "Dear Ruth is Phyllis Keyser, who haswthe role ot Ruth Wilkins in the Norman Krasna comedy in its second performance tor g That vielinist is Yehudi Menuhin, who w “Showboat,” Thursday. offers, among other attrac-

next Friday and Saturday. operetta coming to Eng sh's tions, the {rim-limbed sextet side: That dark stranaer making ey. is’ John Had { day]. Dannie OO Keete Mary Meade in "'1-Me Walter Huston, « in "Treasure of Siera fare ihe hare are Raber |

lace {Losw. i. Wednesday).

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7

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Oh, for a Horse Opera

By Erskine Johnson

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Dennis Day's

secret ambition these days is to star in a horse-opera. He's learning riding and roping tricks with his horse, Stardust. M-G-M is plotting a big new musical, “Exchange Student.” in which Carmen Miranda will play a Brazilian gal who comes

to the U. 8. to go to college

| play a college professor.

~ . . WATCH FOR a quick gag in “Key Largo” when it's released, Lauren Bacall slipped:in a" photograph of Humphrey Bogart at a 10-year-old, holding up a. string of fish. There's a close-up of Lauren looking at the photo, pasted on a hotel room wall, Another reason Hollywood has. to, get back to film-making in a big way: During the war

pictures had from three to five:

week runs. Now, it's down to two to four weeks. New trend in Hollywood Fourteen people, including four of the. crew, will share in the profits of “The Argyle Secrets.’ Producers Alan Posner 8

am Abarbanel figure it's a

| sure way to get a picture on i~schedule and on budget. . .

Producer Seymour Nebenzal is looking for a good horror sto.y as a Peter Lorre starrer. ~ r "ne THE WOMEN'S hat manufacturing industry has assigned Keneth Hopkins ta talk ‘mevia queens into wearing hats. Their

| hatlessness sets a bad example

for the women of /the nation,

| and is making some hat manu-

| and |

Jimmy Durante, of all people, wil!

| faeturers shirtless.

It's Ben Bard's story about the mother who asked her teen: age daughter if she'd like to see the Broadway - hit, “AX Streetcar Named Desire,” “No, thanks!" sald daughter. — “id much rather see ‘A Van Named Johnson.'” % Wonder about this?

who will get mad In: “Up. in Central Park.” Deanna Durbin warbles a song that praises America, along with the lines “The folks look so rosy and healthy and gay. “The Democrats tell they all get that way “From eating Republicans three times a day.” ” . » CONGRATS are in order for

you

Hal “Gildersleeve” Peary, cele- | brating his 25th year in radio. | being | - paged to do four weeks of danc-

Eleanor Powell is ing at the Palladium in- London. But Carmen Miranda, who has a date thére. may not go over because of the British blast against high American salaries, Note to pobby soxers: (ilenn Ford and Rita Hayworth have 3% clinches in “Loves of Carmen,”

2 Westerns and 2 Crime Plots Due on Local Screens Next Wee

“Treasure-of-Sierra- Madre at Indiana, ‘Relentless’ at Loew's,

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RELENTLESS" Loew's

‘Love From Stranger” at Lyric and Circle to Show ‘T-Men' WO WESTERNS and two crime stories make up a not-too-varied prospect of

screen openings next week:

The Indiana is coming up with “Treasure of Sierra Madre” Wednesday while Loew's, not to be outdone, has a similar kind of picture, “Relentléss,” opening the

same d : “LOVE FROM A STRANGER,” the Lyrics Wednesday opener, is a story ef attempted murder for profit. “T-Men"” (Circle, Thursday) comcerns U. 8. Treasury agents and their campaign against counterfeiters. “Treasure of Sierra Madre” has sad-faced Humphrey Bogart involved with Walter Huston and Tim Holt in a drama of prospecting for gold

fn Mexico. When the three partners strike it rich; -

Mr. Bogart, greedy and quarrelsome, causes trouble. First thing you know they've lost theit accumulation of gold dust and are back where they started. ~ » » ACCORDING to the press book, Mr. Huston's final advice to Mr, Bogart is to the effect that all life is a joke, especially where gold i= concerned. Relentless” opens with one of those deals about two worn pleces of a map revealing a rich gold deposit. Robert Young and. Marguerite Chapman are a young and honest pair who man age to defeat evil machinations of gold-hungry, murderous villains. t : “Love From a Stranger” teams John Hodjak and Sylvia Sidney in a story of suspense. In London about 1900, Miss Sidney wins 40,000 pounds in the Calcutta Sweeps, Deciding to see the world, she advertises her-- vidoe. rent. Mr. Hodidk is the first applicant. They fall in love immediately. : ’ . ” . BUT AS Lhe press book's suggestions for radio plugs word it: “There's danger, danger, danger in love from a stranger.” And when, after they've married and moved to an isolated house, Miss Sidney discovers Mr, Hodlak digging what seems like a grave in the cellar, she naturally begins to feel a little uncomfortable, From then on, suspense increases until it seemiPas if only miracie will save Miss Sidney. ‘ “T-Men” has a certain timeliness in view of the quantity of phony folding money reported

, now in circulation. Dennis O'Keefe has the role.

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of a Treasury agent assigned to the job of breaking up a notorious dope and counterfeit ‘gang. Mary Meade, Wally Ford, Alfred Ryder and

| June Lockhart also are involved In the proceedings, which get pretty grim and rough here and

there, as T-men.

the mobsters begin to suspect the

Frontier Styles to Return

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. T7-—-Harry Sherman, movie producer, believes that the frontier woman's dress styles are due for a terrific comeback this year. He says they haven't yet been equalled for charm and appeal. Coincidentally, this year is also the 100th

anniversary of the discovery of gold In Ca'l- | fornia.

| attractive.”

“I'm.piumping for a vevival of frontier styles modified, of course-—to tie in with the cele. bration,” 8herman said. , “They aren't very far from the new look-—-but they're a lot more

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' How Not fo Get Info Movies

HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 7—Out of years of un-

happy experience with movie-struck hope!

George Sidney, has compiled his rules for

NOT to get in the movies. Don't even try, warns Sidney, if: You look like some popular player. . All your friends say vou look just like her, You are terribly ambitious. ; You just love to act, / Everybody has said since you were a 'baby you were a natural-born actress. ; All those factors, say Sidney amd his wife, the dramatic coach Lillian Butns, are ly misleading.

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