Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1948 — Page 12
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‘School for Husbands’ This Week
Famous Moliere Comedy to Be Presented Tuesday and Wednesday; ‘Dream Girl’ at Odeon Three Days; ‘Deep Are Roots’ at Attucks By HENRY BUTLER THREE STAGE events next week deserve attention here.
First is’the Junior Civic Theater's production of “School for Husbands,” a streamlined and musicalized verson of Moliere's famous comedy. It will be put on at the Civic at 8:30 p. m. next Tuesday and Wednesday for the
benefit of the Civic's apprenticeship fund.
With a cast of 50 junior actors and
actresses, including singers and dancers, the production is being directed by Walter
Russell and Mrs. John Kinghan. THE JORDAN PLAYERS are putting on Elmer Rice's “Dream Girl” in the Odeon at 8:15 p.m. next Thursday and Friday, 7:30 p. m. next
Saturday. According to best available informa-. |
tion, the Jordan production is the amateur premiere of the Broadway success, which only recently has béen made available to amateur theaters,
“Deep Are the Roots,” the controversial play |
ahout race-relations, will be presented in two performances, at 3 and 8:30 p. m. next Saturday, in Crispus Attucks High School auditorium. co ¢ ¢
LEWIS BOOTH'S Vanguard Theater will put on the play under sponsorship of the National Association® for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). “Deep Are the Roots” re viously was seen locally in the Indiana Central College productian last winter. There's space now to pass on to you sume of the views on show business: of Alonzo Price, our operetta director for the coming , Butler Bow] season. Mr. Price arrived in town Thursday to start interviewing candidates for minof roles and prepare for coming .rehearsals of the three operettas, “The Desert Song,” July 10-16; “The Merry Widow,” July 25-31, and “The Vagabond King” Aug, 15-21. ! - ‘ ; i so > > : +> : : THE BEST FUTURE for stage Shows seems ng here in Mr. Price thinks. ng shows y expensive and unwieldy Pp be ‘profitable, Jome notable exceptions. stage-
panies,
struck youngsters like to dream of ih the way of
bigstime success is definitely a thing of the past. Perhaps that last comment is the most significant, Talented youngsters like to imagine themselves on Broadway. But, as Mr. Price points out, the trend is away from Broadway, whith now has about half the number of legiti-
| mate theaters it had in 1929,'to local amateur
or semisprofessional theater,
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NOWADAYS, the best place for beginners or even moderately experienced young actors is an organization like our Civie Theaters or our “Stars Under the Stars.” Maybe a very few top talents will get into big time, but the competition is terrific .and the opportunities are steadfly dwindling. Mr. Price is a strong believer in community participation.
theater. “It builds up interest,” he says. He's in favor also of the subsidized theater, for somewhat the same reasons as those I cited last Baturday in suggesting larger subsidy for the Indianapolis Symphény Orchestra.
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UNLESS THERF'S a change in trend in the next few years, communities are likely to have
- to provide more and more. of their own. stage .entertainment,
Mr. Price suggests, as an al ternative to the present hugely expensive praotice of transporting whole shows, a return to the custom two generafons ago of sending stars. on tour to play wily local repertory com- ; REE
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"SILVER
RIVER"
Loew's “THE LADY FROM SHANGHA »
TO BE SEEN AND HEARD—The gal with the feathers and
the smile is Anne Edwards, soprano and comedienne from Texas,
who will have leading comic roles in all three Butler Bowl operettas this summer. Ann Sheridan and Errol Flynn exchange significant
glances in "Silver, River" (Indiana, Wednesday). Veronica Lake
turns on the seductive charm as one of -a pair of swindle artists
initely seems fo be Talli Shanghai sinner in "The Fugitive” (Lyric,
Loew's, Wednesday)
“in-"The 'Sainted' Sisters” (Circle, Thursday). Orson Welles defTing for Rita Hayworth in “The Lady From
Dolores del Rig is a penitent Wednesday). And making with
intense Latin eyes is Viviane Romance, star of the French film,
"Carmen" (Esquire, currently through next Friday).
Not 'Ex-Mrs. Jessel,’ Please .
Erskine Johnson
By
HOLLYWOOD, May 29—Lois Andrews really told off a Philadelphia night club, owner. when she.checked. in.at his bistro. for. a
personal appearances,
He was all set to bill her as “the ex-Mrs.
George Jessel.” After they cleaned up the debris, the lights blinked
out “Lois Andrews.” Pvt. Marion Hargrove has
| sold the film rights to “Some-
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| thing's Got to Give” to UI for |
$50,000... Jackie Cooper and
| June Horne are straining at the
| matrimonial leash.
Don McNeill of “Breakfast Club” fame is yearning for a
film careér and has hired an |
agent to see that it happens. . »
" “NORMAN CORWIN'S intro- |
| duction’éf Eddie Cantor at a re-
| Norman:
cent banquet was a classic. Said “Eddie Cantor is a man who needs no introduction. In fact, Eddie doesn’t even need a man to say, ‘This man needs
no introductfon’.”
Eagle-Lion is planning a big
star buildup for Scott Brady as | the result of his work in “Can« |
yon City” and “29 Clues.” He's Lawrence Tiérney's brother,
The rush back to war pictures: |
includes a celluloid version of
the Battle of the Bulge under |
the title, “Battleground.” Bill Williams joins Vic Mature as pone of the stars. There's anoth-
| er battle of the bulge at War-
He likes the idea of having as | | many loeal people as possible in our summer
ner Brothers these days, Robert Stack, Edmund O'Brien and Wayne Morris are working out with Mushy Callahan to cut
| “down their weight.
Md » ” GEORGE JESSEL had a date with a young lady. At dinner, she noticed that Georgie, never at a loss for words at a banquet or benefit, was strangely silent, She wanted to know what was wrong. Why wouldn't he talk? Mr. Jessel said he was a little surprised himself--that maybe it was because he was kinda stuck on. hep.- He just
couldn't think -of' anything to |
say. Finally the girl had a sug-
gestion: “Georgie,” she sald, | Pictur a ‘Fort Apache,”
hit the jackpot again. He just
“why don't you pretend I'm a benefit?” Not in the script: Ty Power, after getting another “black | eye” for a film scene—“A black eye guarantees that it's a genuine Tyrone Power movie.” Pat O'Brien's wife, Eloise | Taylor, stage 17 years ago when she
married Pat, has been offered | a mistress of ceremonies role |
on a new television show. Eddie Bracken's law; John Yuhasz, has organized an independent film company. Columbia will give John Ireland a build-up as a “king size Burgess Meredith.” ” ~ » When he sends out fan photo graphs of himself, ‘Abe Burrows has all of the envelopes stamped “Caution! Open at Your Own Risk.” Abe is the fellow who once quipped on-his airshow: “I could tell you what [. ¥ look lke, but that's a terrible | thing to say about a guy.”
‘Shirley Temple's Husband in New Film
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who. retired from the |
father-in- |
HOLLYWOOD, May 29 (UP)—|
It’s turning out that when Shirley | Temple fell in love with hand-
{some John Agar, she was only
|about three years. ahead of the {rest of the girls. ; She's going to have to share him now with swooning bobbysoxers ‘all over the country. Her | husband ‘has turned into a mmat{nee idol. : Mr gar is making his movie { debut pposite his wife in Argosy
Circle
“THE 'SAINTED' SISTERS"
Esquire CARMEN"
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To Screen in Week's Theater Fare
‘Lady From Shanghai’ at Loew's; ‘Silver River’ at Indiana; ‘The Fugitive’ at Lyric, and ‘Sainted Sisters’ at Circle THE VERSATILE and unpredictable Orson Welles is back on the screen in some* thing different—"“The Lady from Shanghai,” opening Wednesday at Loew's. Besides that grim and lurid melodrama of crime and lust, downtown offerings will be: “Silver River,” a western (Indiana, Wednesday); “The Fugitive,” drama of 8 | Latin-American priest hunted down by anti-clerical soldiers (Lyric, Wednesday) and “The ‘Sainted’ Sisters,” a reasonably slapstick comedy of two adventuresses
(Circle, Thursday). “CARMEN,” which opened yesterday at the Esquire, will continue through Friday. It's the highly praised French film, starring Viviane Romance, .with English subtitles and musical excerpts from Bizet's opera. The Esquire management carefully specifies that the film jis not for children. .
In “The Lady From Shanghai” Rith Hay.
worth, bobbed and blondined for her. role of a wicked woman, plays opposite’ Mr. Welles ‘who is, of all things, a sailor in the film. Miss Hayworth, married to a brilliant but crippled lawyer (Everett Sloane) gets Mr. Welles to ship as a sailor on the lawyer's yacht.
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EVEN, OR ESPECIALLY, on a yacht, two's company, three's a crowd, and first thing you know, the Hayworth-Welles pair are dreaming up ways of eliminating Mr. Sloane. from the picture. : . 2 The rest of the film leads through jail“and courtroom scends’ to a pretty grim wind-up. “Silver River” teams Ann Sheridan and Errol Flynn in a story of What is now Nevada back in post-Civil War days. Mr. Flynn is a dashing gambler (a phrase applicable to local gamblers now that the mayor's on their tails), and Miss Sheridan is the wife of a wehlthy mine-owner. Romance requires, of course, that the husband cease being an obstacle, and sure enough he gets + Suspicion falls on Mr. , who then has to' clear his name and mend : » 4 ! > * * - 4 “THE FU VE,” made in Mexico with’ the the Mexican film industry, pre
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anti-clerical government. . Dolores del Rio, who is both a beautiful woman and a distinguished actress, is an erring member of the priest's flock. Because of his courageous devotion to spirits al duty, the priest ultimately faces a firing squad after bétrayal by an unscrupulous half-breed. ‘eo » “THE ‘SAINTED' SISTERS” has Vefonics Lake and Joan Caulfield as a pair of glamorous swindle artists who temporarily seek refuge fro™. the law in the New England home of Barry Fitzgerald, a tombstone sculptor. ++ A series of reasonably hilarious adventures lead to the sisters’ returning to New York to serve their time f8w swindling. Chastened and reformed, they later return to the New England Sown and each gets herself a prosperous hus nd. - s
Mistaken Identity
HOLLYWOOD, May 290A feminine visitor on the set of “Drunis Along the Amazon” the otlier day made a big hit with George Brent bY telling him that she always remembered hith £07 his performance in “One Way Passage. * She said the remake of the Meet Again,” was nowhers as good Brent’ herd ‘was iri- the remake and
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