Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1948 — Page 9
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Jordan Conservatory to Present Annual Spring Concert Tonight;
Season Tickets for Butler Bowl Attractions Go on Sale Monday By HENRY BUTLER
THE CIVIC THEATER'S 300th production, just about winds up the stage season locally.
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“I Like It Here,” which épened last
There may be some events at the Murat, like the two programs at 3 and 8:15 p. m. tomorrow by Vaughn Monroe and his band, but otherwise. it’s intermission-time until the Butler Bowl season opens in July. Mr. Monroe's program, familiar enough to radio listeners, will include Ziggy Talent, comedy singer; Frank Fontaine, comedian; Betty. Norton, vocalist, and the Moon-
maids, vocal ensemble. I MIGHT mention here Jordan Conservatory's annual. spring concert at 8 p. m. today . In Scottish Rite Cathedral. It will present the Conservatory Symphony, Victor Kolar directing, And the Jordan Ballet, Eileen Poston directing, In a program about equally divided between fymphonic and ballet numbers. Those who saw the Jordan Ballet program Friday, May 7, in Caleb Mills Hall know that ).iss Poston and her students are doing remarkably good work. Tonight's program, following A private preview last evening for Scottish Rite eTthers and their families, will be. free to the Ce * ¢ IF YOU'RE going to be down Bloomington Way for the week-end, remember the perform. Ance in IU auditorium. of Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffman" &t 8:15 p. m. CST today, and of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 4 p. m. tomorrow. The Bach, which will be conducted by Dean Wiltred C. Bain of the music school, is an ambi'0us musical undertaking. Besides a ‘student chorus, two orchestras, a harpsichord and the University's” newly dedicated organ wil take Part in the performance. It's time pow to start talking about our sums mer season. Monday you'll be able to buy season Pekets at reduced rates at’the English Theater ce, p "
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are the “three opereftas: “The Desert Song.” July 10-16; “The Merry Midow,” July 25-31, and “The Vagabond King," Aug. 1 -21; seven symphony concerts July 18, 21, Aug. 1, 6,11, 13, and the opera “Carmen,” iy 4 and §, Howard Harrington, manager of the summer series, announces that the English box- office, starting Monday, will be open dally except Sunday from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 2 to 5 po m.
Plain Food for Bing
HOLLYWOOD, May 15 (UP)—Bing Crosby, easy-going at the dinner table as everywhere,
loves “just plain cooking” and never interferes |
in the kitchen. “He never complains, ” said his former cook, Laverne Keesee, most anything that's set before him.” Miss Keesee told about the gastronomical side of The Groaner while he guiped down a snack she brought him when she visited Para- | mount to see him: work in “A Connecticut Yone | kee in King Arthur's Court.” The basket included hot biscuits, ‘salad, fried c¢hicken and cream puffs.
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his cook said. “1 never saw a man enjoy chocolate cake more than he doen.” He is also paftialio hananu:oream pie iy the Seaport department, she added.
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Circle } "CASBAH"
Indiana "THE BIG CLOCK"
Lurie “SON OF FRANKENSTEIN" %§
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Do You Remember ...? By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOL, days is a reissue. (for one day at least).
May 1b
80 in keeping with the reissue epidemic
Every other If Hollywood can get away
see these so can 1
movie you with it
I am today reissuing
some old items from some old columns,
It was the year 193 Milton Berle was bemoaning | his idleness in Hollywood. He | told me: “I haven't made a pic- | ture. for so long, my mother | forgot how to laugh.”
Maxie Rosenbloom was being |
introduced at his night club as “the bald-headed Snow White.” A marquee sign of 1938 read: “Bank Night-You Can't Take It With You.” ; » » . GEORGE BRENT spiked reports of a romance with Merle “Oberon: by running up a $75 “telephone bill from the “Wings | of the Navy" San Diego loca tion--talking to Olivia de | Havilland. Richard Arlen tyrned down £10.000 fora role in Columbia’ 5race racetrack. story, bred.” because he didn’t want | 10 ve’ ob-stal'red ‘with a horse.
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"Hollywood Was trying to lure people back . into the theater
(just as they are pow) with a | Are |
pep _ campaign, “Movies Your Greatest Entertainment.” The original slogan was “Movies Are Your Best Entertajnment”
| but it was changed whén some- | one belatedly discovered that | the initial letters spelled “may- |
be.” » » ” THIS PROPHETIC item appeared in-one of my 1038 columns,; “Dick Powell wants to be known as an actor instead of a singer. He'll ming only two LZ number® in his new film, ‘Head
| Over Heels’ and In his next he |
may not sing at all.” It finally happened, but it took longer than. Dick thought. >
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5 : Variety to Spice i Fare co In Shows Starting Next Week
‘Monsters’ Billed at Lyric; Opera at the Esquire—'The Big Clock’ Coming to Indiana; ‘Homecoming’ at Loew's; ‘Casbah’ at Circle WELL, THE FRANKENSTEIN menagerie of monsters returns to. the Lyric
Wednesday in Billed as
“Son of. Frankenstein” and “Bride of Frankenstein.” vow . “The Phantom Monster Show,” “X voke more laughter than chills.
this pair of reissues will probably pro-
Its return is another instance of Hollywood. scraping the barrel- bottom for ® fow shekels of needed profit. from eld prints,
BUT THERE'LL be tow, with the Esquire, home of artistic cinema. starting “The Barber 0’ Seville” today; the Indiana presenting ‘The Big Clogk” Wednesday and Loew's oifering “Hemeconging” the same day, and finally the Circle stag “Casbah” on Thursday, The Bakber of Seville” {is version of Ryssihi's comic opera, with some of Italy's best singers in the cast. Ferruccio Tagliavin, who has been. something of a sénsation’ in the Metropolitan Opera, has the tenor lead, Explanatory . comment by. Deems Taylor has been cut into the film for the benefit of A'meri“The
variety elsewhere in now the Indianapolis
Barber” has had excellent reviews,
> < “THE BIG CLOCK" is a murder mystery involving Ray Milland, O'Hara. publisher of a crime story magazine, while Mr. Milland is his editor with a wonderful knack at tracking down: missing persons. Through evil
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Charles Laughton ang, Mr. Laughton is a big-time
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is that the overseas romanc* eventually leads Mr. Gable to keener appreciation of his wife. (This Is not to be construed As meaning that The Times approves any suc.) extra-curricular activity.) ¢* % ¢ ; “CASBAH,” which was launched by Univer.
sal some weeks ago in Chicago with A big, ex.
| pensive clanwbake for the press, is a crime dram»
| #¢t In Algiers.
machinations of the publisher, the editor finds |
himself in the novel situation of tracking himself. down as a murderer. All this business sounds reasonably exciting. > ¢ »
LOEW'S "HOMECOMING" Gable and. Lana Turner in an unusual. love. triangle drama. Mr. Gable has been a success: ful surgeon, married to Anne Bastar, prior to World War Il, Overseas in a medial: unit. Turner, a nurse, - Their wor!
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them |" gether a great deal, and they fall in love.
The point of the stofy, which has & partly
breakdown beca! “schedule at a f
It co-stars Tony Martin an Yvonne De Carlo 'in 3 business about Jewel. thievery which - winds up uniuckily Shor” Mr, Martin, While no ‘pressibook has arrived at ‘this desk, the pictures and captions indicate a more-than-average authenticity of background and atmos phere. - Incidentally, Peter Lorre pops up in the picture as an Algerian detective.
‘On Location’ No: Cinch
“HOLLYWOOD, May 15 (UP)~You feed fo rabbits’ feet and a dozen-horseshoss to. i the unexpected crises that beset. » ‘movie som. pany on location. : The wardrobe géts the jim- Jama’ costumes get torn or muddied and department store is 500 miles away. The director bites his nails ers hike off to see the sountry back. “The
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