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STAGE AND FILM GUESTS—Up there in the Symphony department is Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan Opera soprano, who will

be soloist with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Sym

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Murat concerts at 8:30 p. m. next Saturday, 3p. m. Synday, Feb.’ 29. Holding up-a feather boa for admiration is Charlotte Greenwood, flanked by Marie Bainbridge and Grandon Rhodes, in “I Remember Mama," opening a week's run at the English Monday. The "slick chick top center is Andrea King in "Ride the Pink Horse"

Lizabeth Scott is trying to cheer up Burt

Lancaster in “'| Walk Alone" (Indiana, Wednesday). "Edward Arnold “ seems to be talking tough to [left to right) Mary Elearior Donahue and Jane Powell in "Three Daring Daughters” (Loew's, Wadnasdayl Not represented in this week's gallery is the Circle, which, throug last-minute program change, will play "If You Knew Susie,” starring . Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis.

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{one quick listen and paled.

“I REMEMBER MAMA" «English :

Two Crime Films and Two Musical Scheduled for Week's Movie Fare

MacDonald and Iturbi af Loew's; Cantor and Joan Davis at Circle; ‘I Walk Alone’ at Indiana, and ‘Ride the Pink Horse’ at Lyric ' '

THE WEDDING of Jeanette MacDonald and Jose Iturhi might be bigger news off

the scréen than on it. .

Anyway, it happens on the screen in “Three Daring Daughters,” which opens Wed-

nesday at Loew's. KEEP THAT on the back ifner of your mind while we look at the other movie offerings coming next week: The Indiana Wednesday has “l Walk Alone,” a gang movie starring Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott; the Lyric Wednesday presents “Ride the Pink Horse” another crime drama ‘with Robert Montgomery and Wanda Hendrix, screen newcomer, and the Circle Thursday offers “If You Knew Susie,” with Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis. . Two crimes and two musicals, 8it right down and tell us which*you prefer. “Three Daring Daughters” is as good as any 0 begin with. For Mr. Iturbi, who plays a lot of piano bath off the screen and on it, does some

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", ~ » ’ ON A Caribbean cruise he meets Miss MacDonald, who has the role of a divorced mother of three lively young gals: Jane Powell, Mary Eleanor Donahue and Ann E. Todd, The gals are still loyal to their wastrel father, and conSpire to bring him home from a newspaper corTespondent's job in Africa.When Mr, Iturbl and Miss MacDonald, having fallen in love and gotten hitched during the 4 return home, there are complications. *asant enough story, probably more important forthe music than for the drama. The cast inCludes Edward Arnold and Harry Davenport. r3 “I"Walk Alone,” Burt Lancaster returns M.14 years in the pen. (Mr. Lancaster in his

'nt films has been, you might say, a commuter

or Ossining and New York—and not the 'dential section of Ossining, either.) He finds : Partner, for whom be took the rap, i$ com-

provide good

plete control’ of their joint night-club business,

or would it be simpler to say their joint? Miss Scott ig what the press-book calls the “lovely chanteuse” in the night club. (Funny how the gal's always a singer, never, for example, a janitress in one of those films. Hollywood leaves unturned many a stone. Instead of the outworn “gangster’s moll,” how about “mobster's mopstress?”) :

” . » WHAT'S LEFT of anybody's virtue in the film story eventually, as you need not be told,

_ triumphs. Chord on B' flat.

The Lyric's “Ride the Pink Horse” has Mr. Montgomery as a ‘‘cynical, embittered veteran” (that's the press book talking) who comes from Chicago to a small Mexican town during fiesta” time to seek vengeance and blackmail, A master crook, on whom Mr. Montgomery has some incriminating data (scientific term for dirt), almost liquidates Mr. M.; but not before Bob has made a big impression ofi' Miss Hendrix. Miss Hendrix has the role of Mexican Pila--“half child . . , half angel . ... all woman!” ac cording to the press book, a description that recalls carnival sideshows. To offset Pila is Andrea King as Marjorie, semi-underworld gal, who has “a double-cross in every gorgeous inch of her.” nw» v “JF YOU KNEW SUSIE” presents Mr. Cantor and Miss Davis as an ex-vaudevillian couple who retire with their children to Mr. Cantor's an-. cestral home in a New England tawn. : From a musical, you don't expect too much of a solid story, and ‘in this case the eombined \talents of Mr. Cantor and Miss Davis should entertainment. eu ;

Gets 'Nixie' From Nets

Daring Ditty Too Hot to Handle; Author Colls It a Mere Crusade

By VIKGINIA MacPHERSON . United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21—Radio censors, clutching their heads and their bankbooks, banned Red Ingle’s latest record from the networks today. They said it was immoral and insulting to their

biggest sponsors,

Mr. Ingle, who drove the country crazy with “Timtayshun,” has popped up with a catchy little ditty on “Cigareets, Whuskey,

and Wild, Wild Wimmen."”

| The. wild, wild bandleader |

..and his “natural seven” corn. it up good, with drums and tambourines and all. the hand- |. clapping and bellowing of a corner revival meetin’. | “Evangelist” Ingle boomed out with a preachment against “Johnny Barleycorn, Nicotine, @nd the Temptations of Eve.” ~ . » {| HE SENT the record to all | the networks. The censors took

Never, they ‘ruled, would | “Cigareets; Whusky, and Wild, Wild Wimmen” tinkle forth on their networks. a “Why - not?” “The lyrics” Censors.

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| Tim Spencer Musjc Publishers): “Once I was happy and had a +good wife—with plenty of money to last me for life: “But I met a gal and went bon a spree—she taught me to | smoke - and to drink whis- | kee-e-e-e-e.” | , “Immoral,” ruled the censors. “Sinful and wicked.” » » » BUT what really gave "em the screaming meemies was the |

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in his face.” / What their .cigaret sponsors

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that, the censors didn'y even like to think about. (And if they broadcast, “buhléeve me; dear. pruther—it's a fire at one

end and a fool on Yuther” .. . |

Charlotte Greenwood Due Monday

well. . . . / They didn’t like all the “whiskies" Mroingie-secattered through his.record, either. Networks have a policy against hard Tiguor adveftising. They

don't like records about it any

demanded Red better.’

. ” » THE BAN means Mr. Ingle's latest masterpiece won't go out on coast-to-coast programs. “But ‘the independent disc jockeys and the juke boxes can pick it up,” he beamed. “And with this ban we'll all get rich! The Capital Record Co. is dee: lighted.”

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“I WALK ALONE" Indiana

“THREE DARING DAUGHTERS" Loew's

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At English in ‘| Remember Mama’

Bert Lahr Coming in ‘Burlesque’ March 1; ‘Student Prince’ Due Back March 9-10, and ‘Mary Had a’ Little’ Booked March 11-13

+. He's a little miffed, though, |

| at the way the cvénsors reacted

to his “revival” ditty. “Shucks,” drawled Red. “Here

1am crusadin’=and they ban

me. Ain't it wonderful?"

~ Oldies Swell Profits

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 21—All film companies are still’ showing

{ tremendous profits, thanks to reissues.

Nearly 50 per cent of Holly-

wood’s profits these days, I'm told, are from oldies taken off the

| shelf.

M-G-M, for example, is sending “Gone With the Wind” on

another whirl around the nation, with a gross of $5,000,000 pre-

dicted. The only thing worrying Hollywood is: “How long will the public stand for it?” “ 1f Roy Rogers and Dale Evans don’t appear in films together— and that's not decided one way or the other at this writing—they

chair?”

Helen Hayes

Lionel to Bogart: be in one soon enough.” is still

“No.

will. be on the air together. Three down Hollywood offers.

different air shows are cooking for them. :

Barrymore: “How about letting meé take a ride in your

wheel-

. . +“ By HENRY BUTLER THE ENGLISH will continue in business throughout next week Mama,” starring Charlotte Greenwood and opening Monday.

with “I Remember

John Van Druten's stage version of Kathyrn Forbes’ “Mama's Bank Account” is hailed as being comparable to “Life With Father” for its pleasant and poignant recalling of a vanished past. : .

AND MISS GREENWOOD, whom veteran

| theater-goers will remember as the creator of

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wonderfully “funny long-legged dances in the “Letty” series of musical comedies; will certainly prove a major attraction.

“IL Remember Mama,” full of éomedy and

| pathos, concerns a Norwegian-American moth

| Kateh, Jean Ruth, + Lawson,

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turning

Her latest refusal was to Lewis Milestone, who wanted her for his|

| Most #urprised person in town new comedy at Enterprise. -

at Jane Wyman's divorce anIouncement was her husband, |Ronald Reagan. She assured him

garet Sullavan, friends that she would like to

Wonder if she feels like Mar-

who is telling!

|three days before that she would come back to Hollywood and do a

{be coming’ home soon. . 8 =» amt PRODUCER Charles R. Rogers | is plotting a counter-suit against t Maria Montez’ breach of contract| action. He'll charge her refusal

+ ” . . MOST movies will be five to ten minutes shorter this

year

of “The Scarlet Feather” script than last. It'll add up to a big

was entirely her own fault. |saving.

Red Skelton kept intact his| Not In the script: “I haven't When I'm

set of every movie directed by his playing in a picture I try to be a

five-year record of visiting the any beauty secrets

|pal, Frank Bdrzage, by dropping character,

not just a glamor-

in on the “Moonrise” stage at Re- puss.” —Dorothy McGuire, (public, Bort of a family reunion,’ #There's, a movement afoot to what with Botzage married to hoost Vincent Price into the John

Red's ex-wife, Edna.

Barry Didlog on the “Key Largo” set: ‘sion of ° Humphrey Bogart

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Gene Tow to Monel Night, Sweet Prince.”

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er’s thrift and tact'in meeting the budget problems and sustaining the morale of her family. Besides Miss Greenwood, the cast includes Kurt Grandon Rhodes, ' Eleanor Ruth Lee, Raymond. Roe and Marie Bainbridge. Other attractions coming to the English include: “Burlesque,” George Manker WattersArthur Hopkins behind-the-scenes comedy about burleycue. theaters” gtarring -Bert Lahr, which will play three days beginning March 1; “The Student Prince,” Romberg operetta, back again for two evenings and a matinee, March 9 and 10, and the perennial “Mary Had a Little,” starring Edmund Lowe, March 11, 12 and 13. :

IN THE amateur theater department, the Jardan Conservatory Players will present Thornton,

Wilder's “Our Town" at 8 p. m. next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Odeon Hall, 106 E. North Bt. 1 - Directed by G. Marguerite Carlson and James R. . Phillippe, the cast will include: William Fagan, Arthur Berlault, Patti Browne, Thomas Adkins, Kester Pollock, Joanne Viellieu, Elsie Ruth Pullen, Claude Parsons, Thomas Brownell, Henry Feldman, Marjorie North, Ruth Thistlewaite and Sylvia Waldman, The Indianapolis Symphony's final municipal concert of this season at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Murat will present Percy Grainger, planist, a» oist, w

. ~ » MR. GRAINGER, who undoubtedly is one of the most’ picturesque personalities in contemporary music, will be heard in Grieg's A minor Concerto. His version of the Grieg had the composer’s own-approval, since Grainger as a young man spent considerable time consulting and studying with the great Norwegian, J Besides the Grieg Concerto, Mr. Grainger will play the piano part in- Morton Gould's “Inter play.”- And Mf. Grainger's own "Youthful Suite" will be among the orchesiyal numbers on tomorrow’s program. » i

—- . el LA A A SI 0 0. AAS AA 5 . Everyone who remembers the initial impact of Mr. Grainger's “Country Garden”-—a pha nomenal best-seller. in piano music, which still brings in handsome royalties will want to hear and see Mr. Grainger tomorrow. He's on his final tour of this country, prior to his planned retirement in Melbourne,. Australia. vr ~ n «FABIEN SEVITZKY'S soloist for the sube scription pair. of concerts at 8:30 p. m. ngxt

Saturday, 3 p. m. next Bunday, will be Eleanor -

Steber, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Steber, who was booked to appear last season but forced to cancel at the last minute, will sing “Leise, leise,” from Weber's “Der Freischuetz” and “Deh viene non tardar,” from Mozart's “Marriage of Figaro” ' She will be heard also In the voeal part of the fourth movement of Mahler's Fourth Syms phony, which Dr. Sevitzky is presenting for the first time in Indianapolis. Indianapolis’ own Tames Pease, hass-huritone, will present a recital for the Matinee Musicale at 2 p. m. next Friday in L. 8. Ayres’ auditorium, Mr. Pease also will appear as soloist with Dr, Sevitzky and the Symphonyiin their Bloomington concert Tuesday evening in IU auditorium.

Studio Coughs Costly HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21—The man who ine

venis-a sure cure Yor coughs will save the movie industry thousands of dollars. s

A good old-fashioned cough ruins more movie’

scenes than any other off-stage sound, Frank McWhorter, sound mixer, said. ; res “There are always 40 or 50 people stinding around while a scene is being filmed.” Mr. MeWhorter said. “During a two-minute take one is bound to choke himself up with a cigaret or a pipe and let go with a muffled whoop. , times the mike picks it up and ‘sometimes it doesn’t, More often it does and the scene has to be taken over” Gd : McWhorter, a veteran of movie recording. is in charge of the sounds ; ) see a movie. He has to

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