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Mise Sherry will be Charles Purcell, ¥ : » Who starred-in “May- : fag post Enemy,” “The Merry Widow,” Alig ples” and other shows, Has, will Producer of this season's Bowl Margoyian T0CAT in the role of Baron Popapo: reammador. Emalyn Remmel, an recently- awarded an imnal a hid show, ‘will sing the second A of wpa McCarthy and Phyllis Nave gt were in “The Desert Song, thier Principal roles.

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Victoria Sherry Heads Cast; Playing Opposite Her Is Charles Purcell,

broadway Baritone Star of Many Musical Shows By HENRY BUTLER which will occupy Butler Bowl from tomorrow eve- % through next Friday, has manufactured its own publicity for 40 years. That publicity, better known than most singing commercials, is the famous

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IN MINOR speaking and singing parts will

be: Roxie Meo, Thomas Brownell, Martha Lunt and Earl Albertson, bf the permanent summer

operetta chorus; Thornton Klos and Edward |

Green, of the Civic Theater; Mary Sue McCarty, Dorothy Webb, Virginia McClamroch, Lida Koehring, Sharon Cahill, Peggy Sturgeon, Luana Croxford and Lola Richards, all of the operetta ballet, together with Marguerite de Anguera, ballet director and choreographer, who will have the rolé of Lulu. Following “The Merry Widow” will be the fourth Summer Symphony concert, with Fabien Sevitzky directing and Patrice Munsel, youthful coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan, as soloist, at 8:30 p. m. Sunday, Aug. 1.

Cutting Film Costs

HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (UP)—Alfred Hitchcock’'s $5 investment in a schoolboy’s blackboard, is saving thousands of dollars in moviemaking. : & Realizing that movie costs must be cut, Mr. Hitchcock ordered the blackboard before work ever started on “The Rope.” He sat down with it for days and mapped out every move of every actor. ’ Then he called in his set designer, Perry Ferguson, and had a set built to fit the action. Most movies are shot in short “takes,” each

only a segment of scene. But Mr. Hitchcock is

“The Rope” in nine-minutfe takes that gobble up a complete reel of film and cover up 11 pages of dialogue. . They save money and add realism,

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Esquire “CAVALLERIA' RUSTICANA"

FACES, FIGURES, VOICES—The cute coloratura, | upper left, is Patrice Munsel of the Met, who will warble with Fabien Sevitzky and the Summer Symphony at | .8:30 m. Aug: | at the Bowl. With the coffee pot is Red Skelton glaring at Janet Blair, and vice versa, in "The Fuller Brush Man" (Loew's, Wednesday). Pom a "pas seul’ (solo step) is Mara Davedova, who will | lead the ballet in Fabien Sevitzky's "Carmen" production | at the Bowl Aug. 4 and 8. Resting chins on hands are, left to right, Barbara Lawrence, Nancy Guild and Jane Nigh in "Give, My Regards to Broadway" (Indiana, Wednesday). Clinching the deal are Coleen Gray and Victor Mature* in "Fury at Furnace Creek (Circle, Thursday). That pair of Sicilian belles harvesting are two of the principals in "Cavalleria Rusticana’ (Esquire, opening. today). Young Richard Lyon looks trustingly at his screen mother, Constance Bennett, in "Smart Waman" (Lyric, Wednesday).

Romance Booms Fan Mail | "By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, July 24—It wasn't so long ago that a film star's marriage was kept a secret for fear of fan censure. - Today’s reaction—Roy Rogers’ fan mail has jumped from 70,{000 to 100,000 letters a month since his marriage to Dale Evans. Dale, by the way, is now starring in the “Dale Evans Comic

Book.” i 8 nn the old slogan, “Motion Pictures REMEMBER the old hit, “Bur- Are. Your Best Entertainment.” . 2 = » lesque?” Hollywood ist made | . HOW to lose mosey in the movagain, ". 3 ele, i business: RKO spent $750,000 ay Baby Sm a i I relon pre-production costs of the| ut based on the letters I re-iy \, 4 oc Douglas best seller of| ceive, these re-makes, under new 1942 “The Robe.” Now, in Holly- | titles, and re-issues of old films, wood’s economy panic, the picture with “re-issue” in the ads so has beem canceled. small that you need the new Mt. Palomar telescope to read it, is! . one of the big reasons for the/Charies Coburn’s monocle was a current drop in theater attend-|affectation. It isn’t. He has a ance, as m in his right eye a During the war 'moviegoersisees double without the monocip, were given a diet of bad films.\which he has been wearing 19r Then, as the lush market contin-|25 years. ued, Hollywood issued oldies. After all these years, Col Now the people are just out ofifinally has a hobby. He jist the habit of going to pictures/bought half interest in a le

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‘Give My Regards to Broadway,’ at Indiana; ‘Smart Woman,’ Lyric; ‘Filler Brush Man,’ Loew's; ‘Futy at Furnace Creek,’ at the Circle YU CAN SEE Constance Bennett, Red Skelton, Dan Dailey or Victor Mature on

local ue next week.

Four new pictures will be a change from some weeks of holdovers and re-

releasyes.

Maybe competition from Butler Bowl has made Hollywood's distribittion 'system fa little kinder to the Indianapolis public.

AJKYWAY, here's the outlook: “Give My Rea musical about show, business starring Dan Dailey (Indiana, Wednesday)y; “The Fuller Brush Man,” with the irrepresgsible Red Skelton (Loew's, Wednesday); “Smpart Woman,” wherein Connie Bennett is a lady criminal lawyer (Lyric, Wednesday), and “Fairy at Furnace Creek,” an Injun-fightin’ horse opty starring Victor Mature (Circle,- Thursday). Another Italian operatic film, this time valleria Rusticana,” opens today at the quire. It's designated “not for children,” hich means that the film probably goes more leply than Mascagni’'s opera into the psycho1ggical background of the story of, Sicilian love, ultery, jealousy and revenge. The music is jaid to be excellent, using Sicilian folk songs as pvell as Mascagni’'s score for best effect. Needless to add, the film was shot in Sicily, ‘with reportedly impressive scenic background. ® © 9% “GIVE MY REGARDS to Broadway” is one of those harmlessly sentimental deals about the death of vaudeville and what that meant to hoofers, jugglers and the like. Mr. Dailey is the most talented son of a former show team, Charles Winninger and Fay Bainter. Dan-divides his interest between the family’s yen to return to vaudeville and his own passjon for baseball. Nancy Guild is Dan's heart-throb. . : 3 In “The Fuller Brush Man,” Red Skelton sells (you guessed it) Fuller brushes. (Incidentally, how far will this marriage of salesmanship and moom pitchers go? 8 «tion: “Men of Distinction,” with Phyllis Calvert and Ray Milland. You can add plenty of your own.) : The story involves sales rivalry between Red

“and Don McGuire, Red's rival for Janet Blairs

attentions.” There's also a murder in which the weapon, of all possible weapons, is a Fuller brush. Seems like that idea would hardly be a selling point. Skelton fans will doubtless like the picture. . ¢ © $ “SMART WOMAN?” has Miss Bennett engaged in courtroom battles with Special Prosecutor Brian Aherne. Evidently the law is like newspaper business, where you meet such interesting people. y In good "Hollywood fashion Connie, though she fights hard for her rascally clients, gradually ‘loses her heart to Brian. Eventually they decide to marry. Hollywood has yet to produce the 10 or 20-year-after sequel to that kind of marriage. If the blessed era of slapstick comedy weren't ap parently over, there could be at least one marvelous two-reeler burlesquing the overworked theme of glamorous women lawyers. ® © » “FURY AT FURNACE CREER" is another Arizona number, this time starting with an at. tack on a defenseless wagon train and fort by murderous Apaches. : Mr. Mature and Glenn Langan are cast as estranged brothers, who get mixed up in intrigue, murder and other shady. business until the real culprits. are discovered. . Coleen: Gray has the traditional role of the hero's reward for his ‘successful fight against evil. . J from advance Furnace * manages to ular. 3

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