Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1948 — Page 9

SATURDAY; JULY 10, 1948

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Butler Bowl! "CARMEN"

‘Desert Song’ Opens 6-Week Program Tonight at Butler Bowl

Seven Nighis’ Run of Operetta Will Be Followed by Season's First Summer Symphony Concert, July 18 -

THE OPENING of “The local entertainment drought.

By HENRY BUTLER Desert Song” tonight at Butler Bowl will break the

For six weeks and a total of 30 performances, there will be something doing at

the Bowl almost every night.

This year’s popular response to the “Stars Under the Stars” season may prove |

more decisive for the future than last year’s. Last summer, the venture was new. This summer, the program is beginning to be a tradition.

IF YI'S AS WELL supported as we all hope it will be, it will undoubtedly lead to bigger things henceforth. Continued box-office success will ultimately justify expenditures on plant improvements, such as the much-needed orchestra shell for the summer symphony concerts.

The seven nights’ run of “The Desert Song” |

will be followed by the season’s first concert, Sunday evening, July 18. i Fabien Sevitzky’s principal soloist for the all-Gershwin program will be Sidney Foster, young American pianist who has won plénty of metropolitan critical acclaim. . : Mr. Foster will play Gershwin’s Concerto in F and the Rhapsody in Blue, while the orchestra Is scheduled to play the Cuban Overture and the Russell Bennett suite from “Porgy and Bess,” familiar to Indianapolis’ Symphony fans. Lois Gentile, mezzo-soprano returning for her second season, and George Tozzi, baritone, heard last season with Dr. Sevitzky and the Symphony In Schumann's “Manfred,” will sing solo and together several of Gershwin’s most famous show tunes. > & O° I MIGHT ADD, concerning Mr. Foster, that the first and regrettably the only time I heard him play was in the spring of 42 in New York. It was in a Columbus Ave. joint where the regular pianist was kind enough to let me bang out an occasional number. 8 On that evening, Mr. Foster came over and listened to my efforts for a while. His kindly Comments and his shy admission that he too Played the piano led me to suggest his taking over the keyboard. ? ch he did, with a large and impressive Section of Cesar Franck’'s “Prelude, Aria and Finale,” played with ease ard authority. He exploited

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the somewhat limited tonal resources

of the bar's studio uprfght in such a manner as to make the patrons sit up and take notice.

In a place where listeners usually subsisted

on a musical diet no more complicated than |

“My Wild Irish Rose,” Mr. Foster's triumph was perhaps even greater than his subsequent success in Carnegie Hall.

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FOLLOWING .the Gershwin program will be |

another concert Wednesday, July 21, when Gladys Swarthout will be soloist, and an all-Tchaikovsky program Friday, July 23, with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene List (she's Carroll Glenn) as piano and violin soloists, respectively.

As previously announced, the Indiana University School of Music will put on the premiere of Kurt Weill's “Down in the Valley,” a new opera, at 8:15 p. m. next ‘Thursday in the IU Auditorium in Bloomington. "With Marian Bell, Broadway star of “Brigadoon” fame, singing the feminine lead, Ernest Hoffman conducting and Hans Busch stage-directing, the Weill opera, based partly on American folk tunes, should be eminently worth your attention. On next Thursday's program, the opera will be preceded by Paul Hindemith’s sketch with music, “There and Back,” as a curtain-raiser. CR» A FINAL mention of Indianapolis Night next Saturday at the Cincinnati Summer Opera is in order here. The opera will be “Faust,” with Eugene Conley singing the.title role, Local sponsor of the excursion is Miss Gladys Alwes, of the Gladys Alwes Music Shoppe, 120 N. Pennsylvania St.; who is arranging for special train and bus accommodations, besides handling

local sales of tickets to the opera.

Loew’s "EASTER PARADE" & 5

Esquire "THE GREAT MR. HANDEL"

TALENT LINE-UP—The wistful lady with pompadour, pearls and 1890s evening gown is Joan Fontaine, appearing in "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (Circle, Thursday). In a cute rather than comfortable pose is Ann Miller, one of a bevy of pulchritudinous pulse-quickeners in "Easter Parade" (Loew's, Wednesday). Peeking through the life-preserver are Jack Carson and Doris Day | in "Romance on the High Seas’ (Indiana, Wednesday). The gent | who needs a shave and has a glint in his eye is Brian Sullivan, | Metropolitan. tenor, costumed as Don Jose, the role he will sing | in Fabien Sevitzky's production of "Carmen" at Butler Bowl, Aug. | 4 and 8. At opposite ends of an 18th Century harpsichord are | Elizabeth Allan ‘and Witfrid Lawson in "The Great Mr. Handel" | (Esquire, starting today). Too grief-stricken to show interest in evidence against her is Vera Ralston, being quizzed by Gene Lockhart, pistol in hand, as the ferocious prosecuting attorney in "I, | Jane Doe" (Lyric, Wednesday).

‘Dancing Lana Turner’|

| By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, July 10—Hollywood's post-war cycle of war {pictures should make ex-veterans happy. All of the studios are {avoiding the sugary sentimentality and the rough comedy (where {femmes are concerned) of post-World War 1 movies,

” ” ” ~ ” ” LAUREN BACALL already has made reservations at Cedars of Lebanon hospital to keep; ee eee rv wtwietruns pow | |that * date with the stork in/8ie.” . . . Nice tribute for Dinah \January. But why under an Shore. The Standing Room Only| assumed name? That baby will signs are already out for her get more publicity than Lana OPeRing August 20 at the Palla-| Turner's wedding. {dium in London. The inside on Lauren's suspen- ® x = sion dt Warners for turning down| You'll be seeing it on the main aHothes Pitre 1s, 1 near. beoguse title of Director Ray McCarey's she wan e feminine lead ogip ¥ “ opposite Gary Cooper in “The! g, Century-Fox movie, “The pL |Gay Intruders”—“Phe characters Fountainhead,” but lost out toi, ‘this ict newcomer Pat Neal 0 picture are purely imagl- . nary and anyone claiming re-

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in her movie debut for Sam "a Goldwyn ' but, as things sometimes happen in Hollywood, she’s| IT ALWAYS happens departnow headed for stardom at ment: Despite their political M-G-M. Vera and’ Gene Kelly views, which she blamed in her team up for the biggest dance|divorce, Jane Wyman and Donsequence in “Words and Music.” ald Reagan have been lunching| The Metro front office is hafling|to8ether on the Warner lot. ther as “a dancing Lana Turner.” "88 | { . x =» Looks like Leif, Erickson has M-G-M is looking for a new the oddest stage role of the year /title for “Sun in the Morning,” in the Broadway-bound fantasy! which co-stars Jeanette Mac-|“That's the Ticket.” He plays al Donald, Claude Jarman and Las- knight who has been dead 600 |sie. Some wag on the lot 'sug- years and goes through the entire

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. Lyric “I, JANE DOE"

Saga of Irving Berlin Recorded In ‘Easter Parade,” Due at Loew's

Other Films: ‘Romance of High Seas,’ Indiana; ‘I, Jane Doe,’ Lyric; ‘Letter From an Unknown Woman,’ Starting Thursday at the Circle HOLLYWOOD'S ceaseless digging into the past may be a symptom of our na-

tional fear of the future.

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Any period prior to 1914 now seems to have been freer and happier than today

| is or tomorrow is likely to be.

And so you get the endless parade of historicals, of which “Easter Parade”

(Loew's, Wednesday) is a current episode.

The musical, based on the Irving Berlin saga and using numerous early Berlin song hits, téams Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in still another one of those

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Also in the cast are Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin; Clinton Sundberg

and Jeni LeGon.

« OTHER WEDNESDAY OPENINGS will be | Seas” at |

the postponed “Romance on‘the High the Indiana and “I, Jane Doe” at the Lyric, with the Circle starting ‘Letter From ar Unknown Woman" Thursday. Uptown, the Equire today opened an elaborate British technicolor musical, “The Great Mr, Handel,” which will run through next Friday.

“Romance on the High Seas,” briefly dis-

| cussed here last week, is a picture with a South

American luxury cruise background. According to the press book, the story concerns a “marital mix-up, plus mistaken identity,” which seems to

be putting effect before cause. Anyway, the cast"

includes Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day and Oscar Levant, pianist and radio

wit. ® & % “I, JANE DOE” is a rather grim business about a French war bride who follows her GI husband to these shores, only to find him at home with his previous and legal wife, When the Qusband (John Carroll) tries to get the war bride (Vera Ralston) out of the country, she shoots him. Arrested for the murder, she refuses to give her name, and accordingly is tried as “Jane The rest of the story covers the complicated process of her trial and ultimate exoneration. The cast includes, besides the two principals. Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, John Howard, Benay Venuta, Adele Mara, James Bell and John Litel. . ® 2» 4 “LETTER From an Unknown. Woman," based

as it is on a sto | Indications of maturity.

by Stefan Zweig, shows some It eoncerns a girl of 15 in Vienna of the 1890s who falls in love with a man of 25, loses sight of him when her family moves to Linz and meets him again three years later, only to be betrayed and deserted by him, After the birth of her son, she marries an older man who knows her entire story. Years later, she meets her beloved betrayer and is shocked by his failure to recognize her. The picture is evidently a Grade-A tear-jerker. And with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians and Marcel Journet in the cast, it ought to be well done. Co-billed with the drama is “Are You With It?” a comedy with a carnival-show background, in which Donald O'Connor plays the part of an insurance actuary who joins the show troupe. Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart and Lew Parker are numbered among the show’s personnel, and there’s a good bit of singing and dancing. ® 9% 0 “THE GREAT MR. HANDEL” is the story of the celebrated composer's triumph with his masterpiece, “The Messiah,” best-known of ora~ torios, over some years of failure. Historicilly pretty accurate, the film revives the 18th-Century feudin' and fussin’ about musical taste, ; Since the London Philharmonic Orchestra plays a score adapted from Handel's own works, the music alone would make the picture worths while. Its two stars are Wilfrid Lawson as the

composer and Elizabeth Allan as Mrs, Cibber,

prima donna loyal to Handel.

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