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Viveca Lindfors in Indiana Vehicle; ‘High Wall’ at Loew's; ‘Ideal Husband’ at Lyric, and ‘April Showers’ at Circle A NEW STAR swims into our ken when “To the Victor” opens next Wednesday

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She's Viveca Lindfors from Sweden, and there'll be more to say about the picture

in a moment,

ON THE SAME DAY Loew's will offer “High Wall,” a combination psychiatric and murder mystery, starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall, and the Lyric will start “An Ideal Husband,” British-made film version of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy, starring Paulette Goddard. The Circle's Thursday attraction will be “April Showers,” a musical starring Jack Carson and Ann Sothern. “To the Victor,” which was filmed in France for accurate background, has to do with postvar blagk-market racketeering. In it, Miss LindOrs is co-starred with Dennis Morgan. Incidentally, one of the Warner Bros. press book Plugs says that ex-GIs will be able to see Omaha Beach again in the film. That might seem to be a dubious recommendation for those who were in the thick of the landing. < @ @ THE THEME of the lady psychiatrist and the Bentleman patient still fascinates Hollywood. High Wall” is another variation on it, in which Mr. Taylor is an ex-bomber pilot and Miss Totter the psychiatrist. _ Mr. Taylor is accused of having murdered his wife, A bad case of amnesia prevents him from reconstructing the events leading up to the tragedy, but eventually, with Miss Totter’s help, he succeeds in establishing his innocence, Hollywood gives us the lady psychiatrist and the gentleman patient a-courtin’, but never 10 years after marriage. Presumably daily psychoAnalysig‘at the breakfast table is sdmething even 'd wouldn't care to contemplate, .

IN “AN IDEAL HUSBAND,” Miss Goddard

has the role of the scheming Mrs. Cheveley who |

throws late-Victorian London society into panicky jitters with her intrigue and attempted blackmail. An Alexander Korda job, it should be expertly done. “April Showers” returns to 1912 vaudeviile

for its story.. Mr. Carson and Miss Sothern, |

hitherto successful, are losing out in San Francisco because their act is stale. Their son (Bobby Ellis) . joins them and makes a great success of the trio." Through ups and downs and plenty of music, the story goes on to a happy climax,

Big Money Plugs Songs

HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 3—Behind the song you | Sennett Story” at M-G-M. hum or whistle is always a song-plugger, and

$50,000 to $75,000 worth of song-plugging.

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= Two Final Major Attractions Due J At English’s in Next Two Weeks

Tallulah Bankhead to Open With ‘Private Lives’ on Thursday; Cornelia Otis Skinner in ‘Lady Windermere's Fan,’ Apr. 15

GALLERY OF ARTISTS—The lady with the parasol, the new | look and the spun-candy hat is Cornelia Otis Skinner, playing the rote of Mrs. Erlynne in “tady Windermere's Fan" (English's, Apr. 15), with David Manners in the background. Emotional tangles be- | tween public and private lives are illustrated by Tallulah Bankhead | and Donald Cook in Noel Coward's" Private Lives" (English's, next | Thursday). Familiar to Symphony-goers is Leon Zawisza, Fabien | Sevitzky's concertmaster, who will be soloist with the Indianapolis | Bach Choir at 8:30 p. m. next Wednesday in World War Memorial,

and Jack Carson with a bill in "April Showers" (Circle, Thursday). Other screen figures are: Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter in | | "High Wall" (Loew's, Wednesday): Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard in "An Ideal Husband" (Lyric, Wednesday) and Viveca

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Roy Doubles His Pay

By Erskine Johnson

{ HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 3—No deflation for Roy Rogers, the |screen’s top cowboy star, His peace treaty with Republic Studio, | Just signed, gives him a 100 per cent increase in salary. Roy just turned down an indorsement of a razor blade for fear the youngsters would be encouraged to meddle with them: ! When -he recently indorsed a dog food, dozens of unhappy! mamas wrote in to ‘say that! ———— BATT Hollywood dramatic school: “Bet-| | Junior had tried eating the nut, a smalkrole than a long loaf.” |

{because Roy had okayed it. | Another cavalcade of Holly-| Hollywood gets a break on my

“ k [new airshow at 8:15 p. m., EST, wood coming up in “The Mac ievery Thursday on the Mutual Network.

Instead of dishing out the dirt,

If the studio goes through with its plan to incorporate some old

“ |Sennett bathing girl reels in the I'™ going to dramatize HollyHAC ur Re eiodics ‘plug’ Ba ot eet {tilm, you'll be seeing Mrs. Darryl Wood's untold, real life i guaranteed in adyance,” says Richard Hageman, Z8DUck in a bathing suit. She yas “08st- as Spe. You

scorer of the movie, “War Party.”

The “plug” is repeated playing of a tune, arranged by “song pluggers.” It is designed to get! you to know a tune so you can ask for it when] { you buy sheet music and records.

Since movies have acquired the reputation of “M:=. Roberts” has a clause in being the mest effective of song pluggers,

tunes become song hits without having played in pictures, Mr, Hageman said,

few his contract that he can be home| been for Christmas. -

|a Sennett bathing queen under|listening. the name of Virginia Fox. | Elsa Lanchester, who wrote the| hm, {best-selling '“Charles Laughton| HENRY FONDA, who is Broad- and I" will start work on a se Lm que 8 summer with some star(Way's dreamboat these days in tling comment on the Hollywood | merry-go-round. John Dall is giving Margaret

(Whiting a big rush via a daily] Motto on the wall of Ben Bard's dozen roses.

By HENRY BUTLER THE NEXT TWO weeks bring the two final major attractions to the English,

| “Private Lives,” Tallulah Bankhead's current vehicle, opens next Thursday.

That Noel Coward comedy of modern marriage and its upsets will be followed Thursday, Apr. 15, by “Lady Windermere's Fan,” starring Cornelia Otis Skinner.

IN OSCAR WILDE'S play about a woman's threatened reputation In late Victorian straitlaced society, Miss Skinner has the role of Mrs. Eriynne, the woman with a past. Unless some “Tobacco Road” or “Maid in the Ozarks” comes in unexpectedly, Lhe forthcoming two plays will just about wind up the professional stage season. The Civic still has two productions, the first

| of which will be “Thunder Rock,” billed as the | only fantasy on the Civic's program this season

Abd . | Apr. 16. | On the movie side S. Z. Sakall seems to be scaring Ann Sothern | and scheduled 9 open AJL. 36

oP @ WITH THE SYMPHONY season ending tonight, there still are some important musical

| events coming. Next Wednesday at 8:30 p. m.

) | the Indianapolis Bach Choir, George Frederick | Lindfors and Dennis Morgan in "To the Victor" (Indiana, Wednes- |

Holler, director, will return to World War Memo-

| rial Auditorium for a concert.

Principal soloist will be Leon Zawisza, concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony, who

| will be accompanied by Dorothy Munger, pian- | ist of the Jordan Conservatory faculty and ac-

companist for the Maennerchor,

Mr. Zawisza and Mrs. Munger will be heard

in J. 8. Bach's Sonata No. 1 in G minor, Brahms’ D minor Sonata and Beethoven's “Kreutzer” Sonata. The choir will sing the “Lieberslieder” Waltzes of Brahms and the same composer's Motet, Op. 29, No, 2. * 4 &

THE MATINEE MUSICALE will present Edna Phillips, coloratura soprano, as soloist in the last of the current artist-series programs at 2 p. m. Friday in L. 8. Ayres’ Auditorium. Miss Phillips will be assisted by Nathan Price, pianist, Beginning its fifth season, the . Ensemble Music Society will present the Juilliard String Quartet in concert at 8:30 p. m, Wednesday, Apr. 14. The scheduled program will include Haydn's G major Quartet, Op. 54, No. 1; Berg's “Lyric Suite” and Beethoven's Quartet in F, Op. 135.

Mrs. Lenora Coffin, secretary of the society, has announced that memberships for the fifth season still are available. Coming attractions in the series include: The Alma Trio, Nov. 10; the New York Piano Quartet (string quartet with Mieczylow Horszowski, pianist) Jan. 12, 1949, and the Budapest Quartet, Feb. 9, 1049.

As already announced, the Symphony's 1948: 49 season will have an additional two pairs of

subscription concerts,

“/get theif kids home for dinner.

LR INNOVATIONS in what appears te be Fabien Sevitzky’s most ambitious schedule to date include two guest conductors and a guest orchestra. . Guest conductors will be Jose Vasquez, director of the Orquestra Sinfonica de la UNA, Mexico City, Dec. 4 and 5, and Sir Ernest Mace millan of the Toronto, Canada, Symphony, returning here as guest Mar. 5 and 6, 1049. The guest orchestra will be the Chicage Symphony, Eugene Ormandy conducting, Jan, =9 and 30. * 4 ¢ SOLOISTS will include: Ginette Neveu, vios linist, Nov. 6 and 7; Pierre Fournier, cellist, Nov. 20 and 21; William Kapell, pianist, Nov. 27 and 28; Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano, Dec. 18 and 19; Joseph Bloch, Indianapolis-born pianist, Jan, 1 and 2, 1949; Martial Singher, baritone, Jan. 8 and 9; Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Feb. 26 and 27, and Menahem Pressler, pianist, Mar, 19 and 20, . The coming season's schedule has eliminated the Friday concerts. Al the subscription series will be presented at 8:30 p. m. Saturdays and 3 p. m. Sundays in the Murat.

Kiddies, It's Television HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 3 — Television has

turned Cesar Romero's home into a kinder garten.

The actor bought a television set so his in-

valid father, 75-year-old Cesar Julio Romero,.

could be entertained. His troubles began then, “My father can’t get near the television set,” Romero said. “There have been more kids in my house than in school.”

A nephew and a niece, T-year-old Bob and

4-year-old Holly Hope, live with Romero. The television set for them is ag all-day trip to the movies. -B Sari “Every ‘kid in the neighborhood haunts the house waiting for the show to go on,” Romero said. SU

“They never play outdoors any more.

d. The neighbors get mad because they can’t fe g w When I coms’ home from the studio I can’t find any place sit down in my own front room.” i

My mother bakes cookies constantly to keep them

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