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Civic Theater's 300th Production

Wayne King Show Will Appear Here Monday Night; Va Is Booked for Two Performances May 16 at Murat Theater

: By HENRY- BUTLER : THE PRINCIPAL stage event next week will be the Civic Theater's 300th pro-

duction, opening at 8:30 p. m. Friday.

“I Like It Here” is the title of the play, a comedy by A. B. Shiffrin.

IT CONCERNS a refugee from Middle Europe who gets a job -as- manservant in the home of a New England professor. Full of enthusiasm for America and democracy, the

“Fretiges Beth about making democracy work,

even in the professor's home. Evidently the play is partly a take-off on the -“Servant -in the House” theme, an® is said to be hilarious. The cast will include: Earl Davis, Justyn Christie, Frances Blair, Fred Hartman, Willlam Cook, Hugh Miller and Percy Weer, Otherwise, there isn’t much to report today In this ‘live-entertainment column, besides the two popular music programs scheduled for the urat. f }

> ¢ & THE FIRST of these is the Wayne King show at 8:30 p. m, Monday. There's been littie advance publicity material, beyond the fact thats the show numbers 35 entertainers. Mr. King and his orchestra are sufficiently familiar to radio und record listeners. The other big band coming in is Vaughn Monroe's. Mr. Monroe and his outfit will occupy the Murat for two performances, at 3 and 8 P. m., Sunday, May 16. # ne ee @ } INDIANA UNIVERSITY'S School of Music Is putting on a big spring festival in Bloomington sturting Wednesday. The first program, at 815. Pp. m. -Weddesday, will be a dedication recital of the new IU organ played by its donor, Dr. William H. Barnes of ‘Evanston, Il, AS you've already read, the organ .is the

., famous .one Jrom the old Auditorium in Chi-

cago. It's been completely = remodelled and Provided with a new console, and should prove to’be one of the finest instruments of its kind in the Middle West, * oo

OTHER FESTIVAL programs, announced by Dean Wilfred Bain of the music school, will Include an organ recital by Virgil Fox of New

York's Riverside Church at 8:15 p. m. next

Thursday; a concert by the, IU Symphody; Ernest Hoffman directing, at 8:15 p. m. Friday; An organ recital by Prof. Oswald G. Ragaiz at

$m, Saturday; Offenbach’s. opera. “Tales of Mr. Hoffman and

Holtman,”

Conducted

by 8 Hans Busch.of the Royal Opera in

Stockholm, at 8:15 p. mn. Saturday, and finally’

's presentation of Bach's “St. Mat-

* thew. Passion,” with two university choirs, two Orchestras, the auditorium organ and harpsif chord, at 4 p. Mm. Sunday. 5

Madeleine Asks— Who's a Dumbbell?

HOLLYWOOD. May & TOP) Madeleine Car: | | roll has declared her own war on editorial {

writers, Miss Carroll spent six years in Europe as. a

Red Cross worker in“war and in reconstruction. |

Nobody can tell her now, she says, that because she’s also an- actress she lacks political intelligence. . “Nobody wants actors and actressés tq take any interest in politics,” she said. “I say that all Americans—and I mean all—ought to take an intense personal-interest in national politics and world politics as well.” What touched off Miss Carroll's ‘storm was a New York newspaper editorial expressing a low opinion of movie star political activity. The political intelligence of movie stars, it said, was “very, very low.” . “It's so unfair,” she sputtered. “Actors and actresses are just as profound, as a class, as editorial writers. . . “This is an election year. I am an American citizen, although born in Britain of an Irish father.and a French mother. I love France. I love freedom and the institutions for which we Americans fought.

“This man writing in the paper wants to .

write me and all my fellow players off as political dumbbells, . Who does he think he is?”

| » Agents Never Give Up HOLLYWOOD, May. 7 (NEA)—Hollywood agents ver give up, as this story currently making the rounds proves: studio and said:

“I've got the greatest fellow you've ever seen..

He sings better than Crosby, dances better than Astaire and acts better than Colman.” “Okay,” sald the studio boss, “bring him around tomorrow morning -at 10 o'clock.” + Next morning the agent walked in, but he had a lovely blond in tow. “Where's the fellow who sings better than

better than Colman?” screamed the boss. “Well,” said the agent, brightly, “SHE'S better!” -

* " Technicolor. Popcorn HOLLYWOOD, May 8 (NEA)—A Midwest theater circuit is experimenting with technicolo popcorn to attract the kiddie trade. : w he outht plans to tee off with red, white and ue corn on the 4th of July, branching out into other tints later. Re

vghn Monroe

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| after | Broadway hit, “For Love or

Crosby, dances better than Astaire and acts | JloPey.”

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Indiana

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ON VIEW —Up there in the left-hand corner is Vaughn Monroe, who will bring his band and entertainers to the Murat for petformances at 3 and 8 p.m. Sunday, May. 16. The trio below him are, left to right, Hugh Miller, Justyn Christie and William Cock in a rehearsal for "I Like 1t Here, the Civic Theater's 300th production, which opens Friday. .On the movie side are: June.

Wednesday); Ingrid Bergman in "Arch of Triumph"

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Wednesday) Jean" Kent snd Richard =Atten:

borough in The Smugglers" (Lyric. Wednesday) and.

manning the pump, Bette Davis in

(Circle, Thursday).

"Winter Meeting"

A Hollywood Trick

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, May 8-—Exclusively Yours: Orson Welles celluloid tricks are back with us in “The Lady From Shanghai” which he wrote, produced, directed and co-stars in with ex-wife

Rita Hayworth,

But the biggest trick of them all I'll have to tell you about because it happened behind the scenes.

Rita has a dramatic death scene, with emotional dialog, in the closing minutes of the. picture. Orson insisted that a sound

stage full of peering eyes was |

no place for Rita to read sué¢h dinlog. 80 he took the script and Rita and a sound-recoirding truck and recorded the. dialog at Rita's home.

| . Then they went back to the

set and filmed the scene, with Rita mouthing the dialog to a

| play-back machine as singers do | { with songs.

~ ~ vr M-G-M and Gloria de Haven have kissed and made up after a year and a half of feuding over her roles. Papa Mayer promised her a new deal. June Lockhart has her choice of three starring film roles checking out of the

When she left Hollywood a year ago she couldn't get a film job for love or money,

o ” . AN IMPORTANT fiimtown producer has a passion for monograms. His initials are emblazoned on all ‘his posses-

sions, including his yacht, car,

shirts, shorts, pajamas, belts,

is giving him a birthday present. She

now. in the film business. . film “Land of Plenty,” an orig-

‘ r Live a Little"-—a carton of monogrammed headache lets. .

tab-

” » » IF JUDY GARLAND and M-G-M are feuding over Judy's political afliations, it doesn't show in Metro's plans. She's booked for three films this year. The same rumors circulated about Katharine Hepburn, who immediately stepped into the best role she hag had in years

in “State of the Union.” » ” »

ANOTHER Texas oil lionalre,~Glenn McCarthy, is He'll

Bette Davis Coming to-Circle

_ Circle “WINTER MEETING"

3 : pins oj ¢ . : * y In New Film, ‘Winter Meeting ‘Arch of Triumph’ Postponed Opening at Loew's; Indiana To Show ‘Iron Curtain’; ‘The Smugglers’ Bocked at Lyric BETTE DAVIS fans will no doubt flock to see her on the Circle screen when. TH tet NG EET OPES TER Ta er oy OS

' Havoc and Dana Andrews in "The Iron Curtain’ (Indiana, - |

The film, based on Ethel Vance's novel, concerns a prim New England

| (Miss Davis) and a war veteran (James Davis) who plans to study for the priesthood.

| years.

mil- |

| petitive bil for some of Hollywood's business. '

inal story by Monty Collins, |

starring Robert Paige. Bribe” will take Bob Taylor and Ava Gardner to an island off: Bouth "America 12) for romance and high adventure. Taylor plays a two

fisted FBI agent.

Kathryn . Grayson, expecting A baby, has. been ordered to bed for two weeks to recover from that hectic Chicago p. a. tour, . : Perry Como, who didn't do

‘ 80_well last time at bat in films; , will do. most of the |

singing-—six songs.in MGM's “Words and Music,”

| tough: lot. The cast includes Michael Redgrave, (on stage |

| violence

THE VETERAN, formerly a naval officer, inadvertently sent his submarine crew to death in the war. As sole survivor, he is troubled by

| -feelings of guilt,

Migs Tavis, In another of hér Tamous selfsacrificial roles, helps him to overcome the guilt feellr then, despite their mutual love, to continue with his plan to enter

and pers.

the churcii, & & @

“ARCH OF TRIUMPH,” previously discussed |

here, will have its postponed opening WednesIt has Charles Boyer and Ingrid the film version of Erich Marla

bestiselling movel

day at Loew's Bergman in Remarque’s “The Iron Curtain” veraial

that somewhat controUSSR A-bomb espionage, the Indiana, It co-stars

film about opens Wednesday at Dana some commentators have branded as war-mon-gering. The press book describes it as revealing “the most amazing plot in 3300 years of record. ed espionage,” which is going back quite some

It's a J. Arthur Rank technicolor film about the and Intrigue of early 10th-Century smuggling, when seafaring smugglers were a

already familiar to American movie-goers; Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenbor- | ough,

Film Fans Are Young

HOLLYWOOD, May. 8 (NEA)--Moviegoers under 35 years of age account for two-thirds of the ndtion's box office receipts, according to a | Columbia University * 07 ;

Thoss between. 35 and 44. account for 20 per

Andrews and Gene Tierney in a story |

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Screen Stars Now Trying To Master Fiction Writing

HOLLYWOOD, May 8 (UP)-—Once upon 8 time. all-an-aetor-had to do was look beautiful; Now movies are getting so complex he not only has to look and sound good but has to be a fice tion writer as well. ¢

When movies were silent, looks were all that counted. Came the talkies, and more heads

| rolled in the Vine St. gutter than rolled in the

French Revolution when stars discovered that when they opened their beautiful faces it sounded

| like grinding. gears.

As the competition got stiffer in the late '30s, actors went to work on athletics to achieve

| physical perfections: '

And now a drama coach Is telling stars they'll have to master the rudiments of fiction writing if they want to keep out in front. Miss Eda Edson, Republic coach, highly rece ommends that her charges write'a complete case history of the character they gre playing befors they go in front of a camera.

He Likes Television HOLLYWOOD, May 8 (NEA)—A big theater chain owner turned movie producer says teles

vision is the best thing that has ‘ever happened.

to Hollywood, because it will mean better movies. His name is James Nasser. He controls 138 theaters in Central Oaliférnia. . With the mioney he made; he bought himself a studio (General Service) and now he's making movies. The first is “An Innocent Affair,” cos

starring Madeleine Carroll TYE MacUMINES

He sald: x : Gaal “As a movie exhibitor I never get more than 1 the studios

combined, There was no reason for r to make good flims. They were sold be

cent and those in the 45 to 54 age group account

for only 14 per cent,