Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1948 — Page 9

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“PRIVATE LIVES" English

Student Players at Civic Theater; Symphony Ends Concert Series

TaHulah Bankhead Here April 8 in ‘Private Lives’ at English;

Theater Conference Touring Company to Off er ‘Christopher Bean’ By HENRY BUTLER ? . . IT'S ANOTHER mainly musical week ahead, with the English dark until Thurs-

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On that date, as we've announced previously, Tallulah Bankhead will strut and

fret Lier hour or more on the stage in Noel Coward's “Private Lives, three days, with a matinee the following Saturday. “MANFRED” is a big deal based on Byron's

THE CIVIC will house a single night's performance of “The Late Christopher Bean” Friday, a presentation of the National -Theater Conference touring company. That company of graduate and undergraduate dramatics students at Indiana University is currently visiting cities In Indiana and neighboring states. * & o MEANWHILE, the symphony presents its last two pairs of subscription concerts of the season: 8:30 p. m. today, 3 p. m. tomorrow, 7:30 P. m. next Friday, 8:30 p. m. next Saturday— all, of course, in the Murat. Fabien Sevitzky's programs for this weekend will ‘be mainly Wagnerian, with Regina Resnik, soprano, and Set Svanholm, tenor, both of the Metropolitan, as soloists. Dr. Sevitzky has programmed the Prelude to Act I, Introduction to Act II, Tristan and

: Isolde duet from Act II, Introduction to Act III

and the “Love Death” from Act III of “Tristan und Isolde” for the first part of the concert. * ¢ & © THE PRELUDE to Act I, Introduction to Act II, Kundry and Parsifal duet from Act II and the Introduction and Finale of ‘Act III of Parsifal” make up most of the second part, With . Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Easter Overture” toncluding the program. Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra will have Eimer A. Steffen’s Indianapolis Symphony Choir hii soloists in next week-end’s concluding con-

With typical Sevitzky enthusiasm for musial undertakings that, in their way, equal the Panama Canal, or Boulder Dam, the Hoosier Maestro is going to introduce Schumann's “Manfred” to the local audience.

poem of the same name—a poem which pre-

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and theatrical romanticism. Principal soloists will be Julius -Huehn, Metropolitan bass-baritone, last heard here in Mendelssohn's “Elijah” last ‘November, and Rosalind Nadell, mezzo-soprano, who sang with Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra in an operatic popular concert Dec. 1, 19486. According to the symphony's press release, the “Manfred” will be given its first full performance in the 20th Century; so it’s another Sevitzky musical milestone. ® ¢ A MUSICAL EVENT which may not get - enough publicity is the local appearance at 8 p. m. next Friday in World War Memorial" of the Girls’ Chorus’ of the College of Wooster, O. Directed by Eve Roine Richmond, the chorus has won highly favorable comments including a few from critics whose judgment I heartily respect. Miss Richmond and her singers will present a program of classical, 19th Century and modern devotional music. ® © o IN THE POPULAR FIELD, the Mercury Record Corp. is putting on the Mercury Caravan at 8:30 p. m. next Wednesday in the Murat. Soloists will be: Frankie Laine, vocalist; Jan August, pianist, and Helen Humes, vocalist; with Carl Fischer and the “Mercury All-Stars,” featuring Flip Phillips, Tony Scott, Buddy Morrow, Alvin Stoller, Jack Lesberg, Buck Clayton and Mundell Lowe, most of whom need no introducing. J

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ON THE ROSTER—Up on the left is Rosalind Nadell, who

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performance of Schumann's "Manfred" next Friday and Saturday. The Mercury Caravan gentleman is Jan August, pianist (Murat, Wednesday). Holding hands are Phil Arthur and Tallulah Bankhead in "Private Lives,” coming to the English Apr. 8. Flashing a toothy smile is Guy Lombardo, who will bring his band to the Indiana Roof for dancing Sunday, Apr. 4. Film personalities are: Jon Hall, Patricia Morison and Michael Duane in "The Prince of Thieves" (Lyric, Wednesday): James Stewart and Helen Walker in "Call Northside 777" (Circle, Thursday); Gregory Peck, Celeste Holm, John Garfield and a discourteous stranger in "Gentleman's Agreement (Indiana, Wednesday), and Susan Peters and Alexander Knox in "The Sign of the Ram" (Loew's, Wednesday).

It Happened in Sioux Center,

By Erskine Johnson

Be. Sil hI... Sat A HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 27—This is the fantastic story of Sioux Center, Iowa. After Apr. 1, motion pictures are kaputt in Sioux Center. The town will have no motion picture theater. And what makes it fantastic is that the theater was voted out of town. The population of Sioux Center is approximately 2000. A few w. i ET aN re eel I hd and Willkie were opponents for the presidency, the vote was population liked motion pictures 819. That gi 1d £ th and the other half didn't. { : gives soma ‘ea o ol . iy {importance of motion pictures to

THE AGITATION started when M8 OWN: 1 ; | During the campaign prior to one of the town’s ministers led ie voting, the words thrown

the battle to have the one the- |, ack and forth were heavier than ater closed up and all movies| any campaign involving presibanned. The other half of the

town got up in arms in defense 32710 OF 1 ayors or city algermen of motion picture entertainment The head of the opposition and the fight was on. {called Hollywood a tool of Satan. At last they decided to have an He said, “We don’t want movie election to decide by vote whether actors and actresses to be the to keep the theater or abolish it. leducators of our children.” It turned out to be the hottest | * «=» campaign the town had ever seen. | BUT THE OTHER SIDE When the votes were counted,{Wasn't taking it lying down. The motion pictures lost by-a margin | vice, president of the bank said of 61 votes. When the lease ex- that people will go to the movies pires on Apr. 1, motion pictures anyway, even if they had to drive are finished in Sioux Center, [to another town. o 88 He said, “If a carload of our IT WAS the largest vote in the young people cracks up going to town’s history. Nine hundred and another town to see a picture, fifty persons expressed their we should feel responsible, We opinions by ballot, When Roose- have sent them away.”

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‘Sign of the Ram’ at Loew's, ‘Prince of Thieves’ at Lyric, Circle to Offer ‘Call Northside 777’ Starting. Thursday THAT MUCH-PUBLICIZED award winner, “Gentleman's Agreement,” coming to the Indiana Wednesday, is next week’s most important movie, On the same day Loew's will present “The Sign of the Ram,” a jealousy drama, ge the Lyric will open “The Prince of Thieves,” another version of the Robin Hood egend. The Circle Thursday will start “Call Northside 777,” based on a true story of a Chicago man railroaded to prison although innocent.

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THOSE WHO have been privileged to see previews of “Gentleman’s Agreement” will certainly term it one of the most powerful pictures in Hollywood history. It's based, of course, on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling novel about antiSemitism. Quite apart. from the moral of the story, which is clearly and vigorously set forth, the film has great artistic merit. It's admirably cast, with Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield in the leads, and Celeste Holm, winner of a special Academy award for her work in this film, and Anne Revere heading the support. > & o

YOU'LL PROBABLY find the film much stronger than the book, Moss Hart wrote the screen play with fine feeling for dramaig climaxes. Some of the speeches as they ar spoken by those actors and actresses, under Elia Kazan’'s superb direction, pack all the wallop you get from a first-rate stage play. “Gentleman's Agreement,” a triumph for 20th Century-Fox, is Hollywood at its rare best. The picture shows us what we might get more often from the movie industry if intelligence and artistry were not constantly hampered by pres-sure-groups and commercialism. Even though you're customarily allergic to movies, you can’t afford to miss “Gentleman's Agreement.” * & : “THE SIGN OF THE RAM,” Loew's Wednesday feature, stars Susan Peters in the role of a British authoress “whose possessive jealousy

nearly brings disaster upon her husband and step-children. Crippled by an injury she suffered while save

{ ing the step-chiidren’s lives, Miss Peters under

takes to keep them always attached to her and home. Subsequent’ events include some attempts at murder and finally a suicide, which solves the plot. in the supporting cast are Alexander Knox and Dame May Whitty, among others. @« HB WHY “THE PRINCE OF THIEVES” (Lyrie, Wednesday) should be booked here so soon after “Robin Hood” is one of those mysteries of the film distribution process. Anyway, this time the ‘outlaw is played by Jon Hall, with Patricia Morison and Adele Jergens in the damsel depart ment. Columbia Pictures insists that this Cinecolor opus has new angles, being based on a novel by Alexandre. Dumas. The implication is the film is action with a dash of reeskay flavor, as if one - or t'other weren't sRough,

> “CALL NORTHSIDE ¥ announced as coming to th make its delayed appearance Circle. With James Stewart in the lead role crusading reporter, the film follows the actual story of Joseph Majczek of Chicago, unjustly imprisoned 13 years for a crime he d not commit. The cast also includes Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb-and Helen Walkers 43 : ;

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