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3 Top-Selling Operettas May Bring Big Attendance at Butler Bowl |

Considerably Better Boxoffice Than Last Season Seen Likely .—Especially If Local Movie Fare Doesn't Get Better By HENRY BUTLER . WITH FINAL PERFORMANCES of “Deep Are the Roots” and “Dream Girl” to- , the local stage will enter a week of inactivity. } “Deep Are the Roots,” the controversial play on race-relations, will be seen at 3 and 8:30 p. m. today in Crispus Attucks High School Auditorium. The production by Lewis Booth’s Vanguard Theater is brought here under sponsorship of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

“DREAM GIRL,” the Jordan Players’ production of Elmer Rice's comedy, will be given its last performance at 7:30 p. m. today in the Odeon, Two weeks from Monday, the single-ticket Sale for Butler Bowl attractions will commence

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of movie fans over to preference for stage productions. Besides the performances of “Carmen,” there will be seven symphonic concerts. ay

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Seyitzky and the Summer Symphony in Butler Bowl Aug. |. That stag party ending in a: fight is Bambi,

Disney animal hero, beating the tar out of his forest | rival (Circle, Thursday). In twilight on the Mexican | .

coast are Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in "The

| Lady From Shanghai" (Loew's, Wednesday). The Italian

stars of "Before Him All Rome Trembled” are Anna Magnani and Gino Sinimberghi (Esquire, starting today).

Watching Fred MacMurray anxiously telephoning is

Valli in "The Miracle of the Bells" (InQiana Wednesday). Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell are twh-of the principals in "The Grapes of Wrath" (Lyric, Wednesday).

A Million for Hughes

~~. By Erskine Johnson _

‘Opens Wednesday at Indiana

‘Lady From Shanghai’ to Make Debut af Loew's; Other Downtown Theaters Showing Re-releases; Italian Film Comes to Esquire ONE OF THE SEASON'S most highly-touted films, “The Miracle of the Bells,” | opens next Wednesday at the Indiana. Excepting “The Lady from Shanghai,” which will make its postponed local debut Wednesday at Loew's, the week's film offerings are not startlingly new. : The Lyric, with “Tobacco Road” and “The Grapes of Wrath” (Wednesday) and | the Circle, with Walt Disney's “Bambi” (Thursday); both are showing re-releases.

UP AT THE ESQUIRE, which changes program today, the feature will be an Italian film, “Before Him All Rome Trembléd” (“Avanti a luf tremava tutta Roma”). The picture has had good notices. It offers, among other things, some | 40 minutes of Puccini's “La Tosca’ in an ingenious plot about opera singers who are alding

agent {Fred MacMurray) who comes to a typical . Pennsylvania anthracite mining village, Coal. town, with the remains of a deceased screen actress (Valli) to carry out the dying actress’ last request-—that she be buried beside her father, Services are to be conducted in St. Michael's, where Frank Sinatra, -of all people, is the parish

at the English Theater box office. Only season ickéts have been available thus far.

: The single-ticket sale will enable patrons to Plan their Bowl attendance without running into conflicts with vacation dates.® > + A LOT has been said in print about the Operettas to be produced this summer. But I'll Pass on to you the comment Alonzo Price, who's

. Boing to direct the operettas, made about the Season. ,

"You've got three of the biggest-selling Operettas in show business,” Mr. Price said, uding to “The Desert Song” (July 10-16), “The erry Widow” (July 25-31) and “The Vagabond King” (Aug, 15-21). " That's one advantage of being just in cond sesison,” Mr. Price added.

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The coming season may do considerably -better than last season did in box-office. : i MET a Ti = TF LOCAL movie fare continues as

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accordingly. i ¢ Oo WITH FABIEN SEVITZKY directing the Summer Symphony, soloists and dates will be: Sidney Foster, pianist, in all-Gershwin program, July 18; Gladys Swarthout, contralto, July 21; Carroll Glenn, violinist, and Eugene List, pianist, in the all-Tchaikovsky program July 23; Patrice Munsel, the Metropolitan “baby” : coloratura soprano, Aug. 1; stars from “Carmen” in an .all-operatic. concert, Aug. 6; Marguerite McClelland, soprano; Martha Larrimore, contralto, and Jon Crain, tenor, in a Viennese program, Aug. 11, and Thomas L. Thomas, baritone, Aug. 13.

Bonita Gets Build-Up

. HOLLYWOOD, June: 5-Pint-sized * Bonita

- Granville frequently has stood on .a cracker

box to put her on the same eye level with her leading men. - But for “Strike It Rich" she’ll have to climb a ladder. ; She's five feet one. Her leading man, Rod Cameron, is six feet four. ;

Ty Power's Co-Star HOLLYWOOD, June 5—Ty Power's co-star in “Lady Windermere's Fan” may he Norma Shearer. Negotiations are going lon for, Norma to return to the screen in _ The new version of simply, “The Fan.

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HOLLYWOOD, June 5—Howard Hughes, who recently bought| | RKO, made up a million and a half of the nine million he laid out. | | RKO stock went up immediately after he made the purchase, and he|

unloaded that amount to recoup. | . =n =» . =»

THE FILM biography of Andy Russell is in the embryo stage, with Gus: Arnheim planning it as an independent production. Andy| |is the prize fighter from the tough, ~~ = - : " [atde. of Los goles who became Story of Jimmy McHugh as a an orchestra drummer and finally musical—with most of his 3000 |a singing favorite. ... Dale Evans songs available for the score. lis talking a deal with a major » stud!o to Appear in her own series, GENE TIERNEY'S brother, of westerns a la Annie Oakley.

sn Howard, and his wife are also ANDY DEVINE is starting his expecting the stork. They live in {11th consecutive year as- hon- Greenwich, Conn. . . . While in| orary mayor of VanNuys, Cal Europe, Rita Hayworth will visit Tr stolons Shu ® fo er grandfather in Seville, Spain ways: “I'm for everything and|. . Martha Scott turned dowy the against nothing.” role of Roxanne in Orson Welles’ os “Cyrano” and Michele Morgan . ou nN KRY 3 UND A Tepiscis Dat. gets the role. Marth a didn't want Army show, “This Is the Army.” to leave her family and go to .. ~Top secret at the Max Factor|Italy. . . . M-G-M ji on the look-

‘ {Makeup studio is a new type of out “for a new kid star to step

makeup which it’s said will revo<|into some of the roles Margaret lutionize the beauty business. . O'Brien has outgrown. Maggie is Lynne Rbberts is. bowing out of being g for the gradual transition -to grown-up roles, the

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underground resistance to the Nazi occuplers of Italy. With Anna Magnani, one of Italy's foremost screen sactresses, in the starring role, the picture is sald to have real power. * © 9, THE DISNEY “BAMBL” if you've forgotten, is a fanciful treatment of Felix Salten's story about deer and other forest creatures. It's good, family-type entertainment with cbonsiderable ‘artistic merit. : Since “The Lady From Shanghal” already has been described here, it's necessary only to

| remind you that it teams Rita Hayworth and

Orson Welles in a fairly sordid love triangle story, with attempted hushand-murder as one of the divertissements. Evidently not for Junior and Sister, » & 9 “TOBACCO ROAD” is a well-worn lane by “now. You may want fo be reminded that the cast includes Gene Tierney and Dana A both of whom since have had a great variety of starring roles. . “The Grapes of Wrath,” which, like its cofeature, may seem s0 t dated, has Henry Fonda in one of his best screen tions of that era. John Ford directed both films, ® .% <5 L

“THE MIRACLE OF THE BELLS,” based on’

Russell Janney’s best-selling novel, has had tremendous advance publicity. It*slso has had a Somewhat varied critical reception, with ths more ard- * reviewers ning ‘it ss as sentimentality, i lc bin ul

priest. MacMurray's idea of having all the church bells in town toll, continuously for four days accomplishes a miracle in the community. Every body begins to like everybody, instead of hating, and. even the mine operators, hitherto stingy, start spending lavishly on schools, haspitals and churches, - x - As one of the ads puts it; “Here's a wonderful motion picture that will send you home smiling + + « Blve you that ‘all's well-with-the-world’ feeling!" If Mr, Janney and RKO can make You feel that.all's well in" a ‘world like ours, they certainly are dealing in miracles

Wake Up, We're Divorced

HOLLYWOOD, June 5-Martha Vickers and A. C. Lyles are laughing now over that #lladvised report that they were separated. = ° * A pal telephoned early in the morning to advise them of the “news.” They were still asleep. : : Lyles answered the telephone, then slicok - Martha, saying: “Wake up, honey, we're sup. posed to be divorced.” SET Heir

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