Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1948 — Page 9
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‘I Remember Mama’ to Be at Indiana, ‘Home coming’ at, Loew's, ‘Panhandle’ at Lyric, ‘Green Grass of Wyoming’ at Circle, TWO DRAMAS and two Westerns compose the downtown movie meny f
“PANHANDLE” (Lyric, Wednesday) gnd “Green Grass of Wyoming” (Circle, Thursday) are the westerns. ~Captain-Boycott,“ starring Stewart Granger an Kathleen Ryan, is a fairly tense story of | Feland some 60 years ago. One feature of the | pot 1s the policy of silence and non-co-operation Mopted by tenant farmers toward their land- | hak named Boycott—hence the origin of the
The film also involves horse- racing, which ays seems to delight movie audiences. * > o “I REMEMBER MAMA" brings Irene Dunne " K in another maternal role, the last having ; en that of Vinnfe in “Life With Father.” Those vio ead Kathryn Forbes’ “Mama's Bank Acrng © Or saw the John Van Druten play, star- | “Re harlotte Greenwood, will remember that touch Der Mama" is a charming and often lite 1 UE story of Norwegian-American family | > San Francisco a generation ago. o to thing revolves about Mama, who man0 Meet family crises, financial and other- : With unfailing ingenuity. charges story there are plenty of interesting who paar including the timid Mr. Thorkelson, ar ¢ film is played by none other than os 4 ‘eigen, minus, of course, his stooge. oi, the cast include: Barbara Bel Geddes, . Borolka, Philip Dorn, 8ir Cedric Hard- ' Barbara O'Neil and, again a surprise, y Who has the role of Dr. Johnson,
® oo 9 ning. SCRIBED here last Saturday, “Homehaat Co-stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner ory of a Successful and rather smug surand hi war-time, overseas romance with a Mr, Gable ® romance with Miss Turner gives Theta, a Xow Sublook on life, as might be Nis wiry (Anne Daa ho recurs Rome > Play, fist-fights and chair-throwin hens th Pont onctivitien in 8 <hairthrowing fim vil War Texas. Rod Cameron 1s nparasily In dutch with the law. In
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“week; “withthe “British fii, Captain Boy cote spening today at the Esqui The dramas are “I Remember Mama,” “here Tast season (Indiana, Wednesday) and previously described here.
screen’ version of the stage play. seen “Homecoming”. (Loew's. Wednesday):
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and Blake Edwards also are in the supporting |
cast. @* © & : THE SAME LYRIC bill will include “Rocky,” a story of a boy and his dog, starring Roddy McDowall. It may not be entirely accurate to describe “Green Grass of Wyoming” as a western, since the picture involves no shooting. It's based on Mary O'Hara's best-selling novel, which has to do with horse-breeding and trotting races. Shot in technicolor, with plenty of impressive Wyoming background, the film stars Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn and Robert Arthur, the last-named In his first important role. Lloyd Nolan, Geraldine Wall and Burl Ives, celebrated ballad-singer, are in the supporting cast,
| OscarCompletesPost-War's
Biggest De-gilding Job
HOLLYWOOD, May 22—Oscar Johnson, an
outcast in a town where everything is pains- |
takingly“turned to gold, has just completed the post-war’s biggest de-gilding job. Mr. Johnson has painstakingly removed every last bit of glint and glitter from an entire 1200seat theater. The theater was built especially for a scene in Independent Artists’ crew of men was hired to build it and to decorate the interior in red plush and gleaming gilt. Then Mr. Johnson was hired to rub off the It.
“They decided thé place needed aging. " Mr. Johnson explained. : Everywhere ‘that Rosalind Russell went in the theater, Johnson went-—just ahead of her—
with his pot of gledm remover and his little |
brush. It was his" job to obliterate highlights on the gilt, camera, and to make it look old and dusty, Pe. NG = THE COMPANY worked in the gilded and degilded theater for most of its three-month shooting schedule. Johnson, although he never delayed. thé scenes, was busy ang. yignt up to the moment they were
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“The Velvet Touch.” A |
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Anne Weeks Philharmonic Guest; Symphony Needs Greater Funds
Dr. Sevitzky's Orchestra Depending Upon Drive to Raise
| tra’ s concert at 8:
Enough Money to Give Musicians Year-Round Security
...By HENRY BUTLER - NEXT WEEK'S main musical event will be the Indianapolis ‘Philharmone Orches-
15 p, m. Mond®y in Caleb Mills. Hall, Shortridge.
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Ernst Hoffman, the director who is: making Hoosier musical history down at Tadic
- ana University, will be guest conductor. { HIS SOLOIST will be Anne Weeks, soprano,
HOLLYWOOD, May 22 Van Johnson is Beunting Louis B. | Who made a hit" with the IU auditorium audience
Mayer's +—in-Ailfred Hitchcock's up to L. B. - Evelyn Keyes, chance at better roles, “Harry Cohn and I just don’t speak to one another.’ A lot of Hollywood players | will be called- back to uniform
serves, tapped is Douglas Dick. who will . devote some time to the [ Alr Force this summer. » LJ » BEST QUESTION of the week in Hollywood was asked | by agent Billie Greene: | did Edmund Gwenn that won him | porting award from the Academy?” They'll - be arguing
support
about that one for months to |
come.
John Payne is really getting | Y 8 discovered, is playing the har-
that change of pace after playing the perennial troubadour at Fox. way in “Larceny,”
other for the crime.
Another dietin rogram for | g Dros | Bergman with “hedlthy appeal.”
Anne Baxter. She's down to 110 from 127. Typical Baxter lunch is five tablespoons of cottage cheese and a lettuce leaf, es 8»
ANOTHER fight “at Ciro's.
An oversized drunk started to
beat up one of the parking lot
| attendants. Bob Preston tossed on his ear out into the |
Sonja Henje and John- | i show,
him street. ny Meyer were holding hands there the same night.
Bonny Tufts is busy - study- | ing his lines for “The Wran--
gler.” - He has a percentage of the film. . . . Rosita Diaz, the Mexican. actress, s hasn gotten over the tax She. had: to pay income a.
“I Confess.”
“Whom |
the pat aup- | hof candidate for the title role
| in the Walker that Gene Fowler will |
He'll go heel in a big’ | { murdering a | | gal and trying to frame an-
s office for official approval to play the role of the priest Hitch wants him. Now its |
who has been feuding with Columbia over a’ isn't on suspension.
But she told me,
to five governments, Mexico,
| 8pain, France, Morocco and the | U. 8" for part-time duty with the re- | One of the first to be
” . CAPS Cecil B. DeMille was discussing
one aspect of the character of |; “fRamson |
Samson for his film, and Delilah.” “He's the kind of a guy,” said DeMille, “who is willing to believe anything as long as it is Incredible.” Morgan Conway is the latest life story of Jimmy produce. Helen Hayes’ hobby, I just monica. Jerry Murad of the Harmonicats is slated to give her some “advanced” lessons. . Prediction: Critics will tab eca Lindfors in “To the Vietor” as. the first star since
~ » ~ NEW LOOK HAZARD: George Jessel colliding * with Tommye Adams’ bustle in the
Mocambo lobby. . . . Comedian
Benny Rubin was not playing
for laughs when" he pleaded |
poverty in his alimony suit, His last employment was a $50 spot on the Abbott and. Costello
M-G-M is plotting a motorcycle racing story for Keenan
Wynn. Probably on the theory
that the. studio can't get him off his hopped-up cycle, anyway. Keenan even: drives up
to .night clubs in the Yoaring’
monster.
[a ! ULE DEFINITION:
| last Saturday night in the role of Olympia in Offenbach's opera, “The Tales of Hoffman,”
“Carmen,” Haydn's G major Symphony, No. 88, | the “Wienerblut” “Non Sopiu” aria from Mozart's “Marriage of | Figaro” and the Dance of the Apprentices from Wagner's ‘ ‘Melstersinger " > o> o>
WITH STAGE ACTIVITY temporarily halted, | now's a good time to talk about the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Writers of letters to the editor recently have complained about municipal appropriations. for I the Symphony, in view of the city's financial crisis. From a strictly dollars-and-cents viewpoint, their objections are reasonable enough. If the city just hasn't got the $25 thousand voted for the Symphony last year, then the city can't | pay it. { But there's a larger question involved. That | is: Should music be subsidized? Or should | music, like liquor, tobacco and other luxuries, be required to pay its own way? > * @ IT'S A PECULIARLY American question. In many other countries long ago, the problem of supporting symphony orchestras and opera houses was met by government aid. We Americans have a-phobia about subsidies. | They're supposed to destroy initiative, undermine | character and threaten the sanctity of the home. But however terrifyingly “socialistic” the | subsidy may seem in theory, in practice it's |.one of the very few methods: of supporting first-rate music. No first-rate orchestra, no firstrate opera can- exist without subsidy. In this country, the subsidy generally has | been private. Wealthy, guarantors have taken | care of annual deficifs. But greatly increased income taxes and other factors have made the private-subsidy plan precarious,
| oY ' FABIEN SEVITZKY'S orchestra now faces -
the possibility of being unable to contimie beyond next season. C ces are that somé means will
be found to meet the problem temporarily. Bat
‘on a long-range - apolis Symphony is People will
, the future of the Indian extremely insecure,
Lh
The program will include the introduction to |
waltzes of Johann Strauss, the’
| than it's getting now.
“claims to fame,
any: “It Spikes Jones can make.
“money, why can't the Indianapolis Symphony?” The answer is, of course, in relative size and overhead. - During the active season, the symphony’'s ‘overhead runs about $10 thousand per week. To . ® _¢ © THAT'S A PILE of dough, and people who haven't yet developed an interest in serious music may think it's too much. But compare the Indianapolis Symphony's approximately $235
| thousand annual budget with the nearly $1 mil-
lion budget of the Boston Symphony, which Tatter orchestra offers probably the best and most
{ secure orchestral career In.the United States for
first-rate musicians. What the Indianapolis Symphony needs is not less money, but a. great deal more money Don't forget: Dr. Sevitzky and his musicians earn about 50 per cent of their keev through tours and recordings. That's unusually high earning power for an orchestra. ® o 9 A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Is not Just polite entertainment for cultural snobs. It's a vital part of this community's education.” It's just as important as schools and! colleges, which also have to be subsidized. If I were to object to the Symphony's getting municipal and state aid because I didn't care for long-hair music, I'd be like a person who never- got beyond arithmetic objecting. to state ald for IU or Purdue because they teach higher mathematics. > Pr. Sevitzky frequently has stressed the role of-music in developing character. It's a good point. Many an able youngster who got good musical training early might have been other. wise a frustrated, unhappy, potentially delinquent citizen later. : > 4 @ s WHEN I RECALL that I never heard a ye. phony orchestra until I was 14, I envy young« sters now growing up in Indianapolis. Dr. Bevits. ky's orchestra is one of this oe Sues
And 1 ertalniy hope