Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1948 — Page 9

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Winifred Heidt, Met Contralto, - To Be Maennerchor Soloist

-.Clarence Elbert’s Group Gives Final Concert Tonight; Jordan Chorale To Sing Sunday; Other Events: Hollywood Animal Stars and Kid Ory “By HENRY BUTLER : EXCEPT FOR the Hollywood Animal Stars, who (which?) will play three performances at the Murat tomorrow, next week's live entertainment will be musical.

Clarence Elbert's Maennerchor, with Winifred Heidt, Metropolitan contralto, as

soloist, give. their final concert of the season at 8 p. m. today in the Athenaeum.

> ¢ . INCIDENTALLY, Miss Heidt, as you may have read in The Times yesterday, has had to cancel all her summer engagements and hence will not be heard in the Butier<Bowl presentation of “Carmen” Aug. 4 and 8. Regina Resnik, who appeared with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony in an all-Wagner program, will sing the title role of Bizet's opera.

& <> THE JORDAN CHORALE, with Lloyd F: Sunderman, director of Jordan Conservatory, conducting, will give a concert at 4 p. m. tomorrow in World War Memorial. Soloist will be Eugene Kilinski, violinist, recently. appointed to tie Jordan fatality, Mentioned . above,

the Hollywood Animal

Btars show has a roster resembling ‘the Noah's |

Ark passenger list, from Daisy, the dog to King, the vulture, Publicity, even the wild animals (Panther; the Mountain lion, and Pal, the bear) are gentle

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and tame when they're not required to act {

ferocious for movies. Ld > EDWARD “KID” ORY and his Creole Jazz Baad will give a program at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Murat’ Assisting artists will be Bertha EChilpples Hill, singer; Jimmy Yancey, st, an nnie Jo v at, Lonn. hnson, guitarist and Martip Marks, Indianapolis pianist, will be Presgnted in a free public recital at 8:15 p. m. ednesday in World War Memorial by the Indi Anapolis Matinee Musicale. oe t just about winas up announcements for coming week, so there's space to say a little

something about Dr. Sevitzky's preparations for

next summer's “Carmen.” |

EL oh _ AUDITIONS for 80 singers th com opera chorus will be hel Monday, May 10; in J . 08 at Jordan Conservatory trom. 4:30 106 p.'m., and from 7:30 p. m. on. A like ® the operetta chorus, the opera ‘ensem-

“ble ‘will not be paid since the grand-opera over |

head is enormously greater. But tion offers important inducements trying to get ahead. For one thing, the program wfll carry choristers’ names, and thus will give the singers evidenee of experience in an important musical project... ‘Getting started in a career is no easy mattér these days, and as the Civic Theater and other amateur groups have demonstrated, working without pay often may lead to bigger opportunities,

the producto ‘singers

‘ eo 6 & SINCE “Carmen” is an especially difficult opera to produce, all participants will have to observe professional requirements, Dr. Sevitzky emphasizes. Only those who car devote time to rehearsals and be sure of faithful attendance will be eligible, the maestro adds.

Jimmy's New Girl Friend

HOLLYWOOD, May 1 (UP)-—Jimmy Stewart's latest girl friend is Myrna Dell, a glamorous young beauty who wants to be a character actress, : Miss Dell is the current candidate to entice Mr. Stewart from his throne as Hollywood's No. 1 bachelor. Her attractions include blond hair, a pretty face, ~curvaceous form, a sense of humor and a good amount of brain power. Thoughtfsl use of that brain has led Miss Dell to bid for character roles in pictures, “Beauties are a dime a dozen in Hollywood,” this beauty says. dT “But most character actresses keep right on going strong.” i Miss Dell, once the toast of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, began her movie career as a glamour. girl. © She made one picture as.a Ziegfeld girl. When her option came up, she was

After brief and hupgry ~cogitation; Miss

Dell

did a fast switch to.a character actress. |

Indiana “UNCONQUERED"

Lyric "THE MAN- FROM TEXAS"

COMING SHOWS—The genial gent, upper left, is Edward "Kid" Of. trambanict, who brings his jarz band to the Murat Wednesday. Balsw Mr: Ory “is Gallant Bess, one of ‘numerous Hollywood trained animals in the show. témorrow at the Murat. Movie people are: Paulette: Goddard, wearing convict's chains in “Unconquered” [Indiana, Wednesday); Cary Grant

“Arch of Triumph" Film Story

r-and-toretta-Young in.The.Bishap.s Wifa'. [Circle Thurs-

day); Lynn Bari and James Craig facing the parson in “The Man From Texas" (Lyric, Wednesday) and Charles Boyer and. Ingrid Bergman sipping Calvados, which is French fire-water, in "Arch of Triumph" (Loew's, Wednesday).

‘It's My Own Nose" By Erksine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, May 1 -Hedy Lamarr, I can report today, has a very lovely nose—eveh if it was stuffed up a little. Hedy had a spring cold in heg heady. Frankly, I hadn't noticed Hedy's nose (could it be that” Jane Russell has a nose, too) until she filed suit for $200,000, charging that € national magazine maligned it as a plastic surgery job S80 1 went out and got a good look It looked fine. A very beautiful nose, No. traces of plastic surgery at all, *

May 27. He's all set to make a film in London. .., UI is running into censor trouble ard will Rave to reshoot the sequence in “Mr. “This is berfectly ridiculous,” Peabody ‘and the Mermaid” in Hedv sniffed. “It's my dose and which Andrea King takes off her it's albays been my dose. Beople dress and dives into a swimming Ihave albays lked it.” pool garbed only in. black lace | ‘Hedy reached for a handker- lingerie. . Andrea plays the other Icheif and daintily blew her $200,- Woman in the film. Imagine 000 nose while her lawyer, Jerry Playing the other woman to a Giesler, winced, After. all, there Mermaid.

aren't very many $200,000 noses. §..9 » » DARRYL ZANUCK can take a

| a tense drama of life among refugees in Paris: | L ‘ 8 $ 17 Onhivcountry-back “in” the 1760's. .

Circle : "THE "BISHOP'S WIFE"

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Opens Wednesday at Loew's

‘Unconquered’ Returning to Indiana; ‘Bishop's Wife’ at Circle; ‘Man From Texas,’ New Western, to Show at Lyric Theater

PROBABLY" next "week's “most important-picture--wili-be.‘Arch..of Triumph,”

screen version of Remarque’s novel, opening Wednesday at Loew's. Other openings will be: “Unconquered,” in a popular-price return showing (In- | diana, Wednesday); “The Man from Texas,” a new western (Lyric, Wednesday) and “The Bishop's Wife,” sentimental fantasy (Circle, Thursday).

“ARCH OF TRIUMPH" stars Ingrid Bergman..Charies Boyer and Charles Laughton in

just before World War II. Mr. Boyer is Ravic, the Austrian surgeon and fugitive from the Gestapo, who falls in love with Joan Madou, cafe singer (Miss Bergmani. Both are insecure. Mr. Boyer has a wealthy American patient (Ruth Warrick) who would like to marry him. Miss Bérgman attracts a rich playboy (Stephan Bekassy) There consequent flare-ups of jealousy between two principals. And Mr. Boyer keeps seeking

the the Gestapo

in Austria, in order to get revenge The drama builds up to a big, tragic climax as war engulfs Europe, . ¢ CARY GRANT, Loretta Young and David Niven sustain the proceedings in “The Bishop's Wife,” with help from Monty Woolley,” The story concerns a recently consecrated bishop (Mr. Niven) and his wife (Miss Young), whose

| "household is benevolently*invaded by a remark-

CHARLEY CHAPLIN and his Pow fof rapping the Hollywood Oona O'Neil are straining at the pessimists and panic yellers and,

leash,

ald and Harry Karl... . M-G-M starlet Karin Booth will mharry cific pictures aimed directly at

{ A the 35-to-B5-year-old group ~ the {Allen Carlisle, heir to the "-! lerfon Detective , Agency. - ' | poorest source of revenue for mo-

v wile IM-G-M is giving Busby Berkeley| "Pictures.

» ” » {another chance. He'll probably! . . u direct Gene Keily in “Take Mel, oo 1 x KEATON, the old

{Out to the Ball Game.” . . . time film comic, is still making Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Eliza- YOU laugh, even though you don't beth Taylor are testing for see him. He's A gag man at M-G-Young Bess.” which M-G-M Af currently at work on the Red {probably will. film in’ England. | Skelton-Esther Williams ‘starrer. | aT. \ “Neptune's Daughter.” , . , Secret KNOWLES and his aesires dept.: y booked passage ‘to the Queen Elizabeth and. sing like Burl Ives.

PATRIC {wife have iEngland on Hie

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Jimmy Cagney) ‘to wishes he coyld twang the guitar

able stranger (Mr, Grant).

The stranger has the knack of ‘solving most of their family problems in a series of episodes described by the pressbook as being “whimsical and touching.” Incidentally, the pressbook can't seem to make up its mind about the correct title of the picture, referring to it much of the time #8 “Cary and the Bishop's Wife.” Must have been some kind of behind-the-scenes squabble; I : “THE ‘MAN FROM TEXAS” is another story of the western olitlaw trying to reform. It has James Craig as the outlaw, the Kl Paso Kid, Lynn. Bari as his ‘wife and Johnnie Johnston as his outlaw buddy. Through the usual kind of horse-opera proceedings, the film grinds toward a happy ending. » " * 9 4:

i "IN CASE you didn't see it on its first showing here, “Unconquered” is the pig DeMille

technicolor version of Neil 4. SBwanson's bloods and-thunder novel about Pittsburgh and the

The stars are Cary Cooper and Paulette Goddard, with Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff,

| Cecil Kellaway and Ward Bond in the support-

ing cast, There's grim stuff about the crueity of

| those days, especially the fiendish ingenuity of | the Indians in torturing their victims,

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Faithful Fans Stick

To Stars Through Lulls

agent (Charles Laughton) who had tortured him |

May 1--Jane Wyatt ig the booster of fan clubs,

| Thirty-two of her clubs stuck by her, she said, | even though she was retired for eight years.

Now that she's back on the screen, Miss Wyatt is finding that loyal nucleus mighty valu«

. able.

“Members of movie fan clubs are among the most loyal people in the world,” Miss Wyatt “sald. “They stick by their chosen star through long retirements, through illnesses and set backs. . "

“They're the greatest morale builders in the world for the lucky actress who has them.”

Sah Small Town Critics © HOLLYWOOD, May 1 (UP)-—~The world's most critickl movie critics are not the New York reviewers but moviegoers in America's small onhe-theater towns, Those are the places where the theater man«. - ager puts up signs in lobby warning his customers if he thinks the night's mowvis 1s too dull to sit through. . _ “It's murder,” says M-G-M dire Rowland. ' “They want. first-class en wor elie!"

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Rowland believes audiences in America’s

6000 one-theater towns are the most depends able indication of ‘he siiccess of a movie.

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