Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1948 — Page 9
SECOND SECTION SATURDAY, JULY 31. 1948
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Maxwell Anderson’s ‘Key Largo’ in Film Form at Indiana Wednesday; ‘Up in Central Park’ Coming to Circle Wednesday WILLIAM SAROYAN’S “The Time of Your Life” and Maxwell Anderson's “Key Largo™ both will be here in screen form next week. “The Time of Your Life,’ scheduled to open next Saturday at Loew's, will have James Cagney, his sister Jeanne Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris and assorted other personalities, including Paul Draper, the tap-dancer, and James Barton. “Key Largo” (Indiana, Wednesday), cambines the familiar talents of Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall and Claire Trevor. |
NEXT THURSDAY, the Circle will open “Up In Central Park,” screen version of the sucJeastul Broadway musical, with Deanna Durbin, A ck Haymes and Vincent Price in leading roles. a, postponed run of “Smart Woman,” with Onstance Bennett and Brian Aherne, starts ednesday at the Lyric. Children of Paradise,” an elaborate Frenchane film about Paris a century ago, opens Way at the Esquire. Its leading roles are Paved by Jean-Louis Barrault and the Mona isa-like Arletty. whi or once, there's no horse opera-—a fact In ith may bewilder some local movie-goers. at: the coming week seems likely to offer aa Hollywood could and should offer more = arly: Substantial, reasonably mature enternment, ¢ & @ ADMIRERS of William Saroyan and James’ Life 1¢y undoubtedly will like “The Time of Your nalop It's about a San Francisco waterfront Nn, full of assorted Saroyan characters— Y, slightly wacky, often amusing. ere’s Joe (Mr. Cagney), the philosopher “Fr mysterious source of income who underit = all the other personalities. There's old fame) on (James Barton, of “Tobacco Road” ne the Indian-fighter who mingles fact with CY in his reminiscences. There's Kitty *2ne Cagney), ex-farm girl who likes to Mm she was once a burlesque queen, <&
-g ¢ & tory Y LARGO” is a fairly grim, suspenseful Pop ot in a down-at-heel resort hotel on a Yung 8 key. As an ex-Army major, Mr. Bogart I Siow of a bunch of gangsters led by Mr, Bo, binson. When the gangsters compel wy gart to ferry them across to Cuba and % rom the law, there's a big sequence of
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the corrupt reign of Boss Tweed.
The pleasant, harmless story concerns the daughter (Miss Durbin) of an Irish foreman in Central Park and her romance with ‘young lawyer (Dick Haymes), who is crusading for civic reform. Fenty of good music and the never-tiring Durbin voice contribute to the film's entertainment value. Previously described here, “Smart Woman” brings Connie Bennett and Brian Aherne face-to-face as opponents in the courtroom. Miss Bennett is a successful criminal-lawyer, and Mr. Aherne is the forceful prosecutor. * & THE ESQUIRE’S “Children of Paradise.” an extremely elaborate and expensive production, was filmed in the Paris movie suburb’ of Joinville, later in Nice, four years ago. Done with scarce and makeshift materials during the
German occupation, the film is an amazing |
achievement. It's one of those deals, dear to the Gallic heart, of love at first sight—love that’s found and later lost in a carnival crowd. The faithfully reconstructed background of Parisian vaudeville 100 years ago, and the kind of direction the French excel in, have helped make this picture a success with metropolitan critics. One final comment on the series of foreign films the Esquire is running. Though they're often described as rather advanced for children, they should be extremely worth while for young students of foreign languages. There’s no better way of getting the melody or lilt of French, impossible to convey in the classroom, than by hearing that language as she actually is spoke. Seeing and hearing French films may be less effective than taking a trip ‘to. Paris, but it's a heck of a Mt cheaper, |
Butler Bowl "CARMEN"
IMPORTANT PEOPLE — Seated, upper left, on a circular divan of the President Grant period are Dick Haymes and Deanna Durbin in "Up In Central Park" (Circle, Thursday). Jane Johnston, Indianapolis soprano, will sing the role of Frasquita in Fabien Sevitzky's "Carmen" production at Butler Bowl next Wednesday
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‘Carmen,’ at Bowl,
Expected to Be Great Success
Two Performances Planned; Attendance Will Be Crucial Test
Of Public's Response to ‘Stars Under the Stars' Program By HENRY BUTLER
expect trouble in "Key Largo" (Indiana, Wednesday). |
In that peekaboo bodice is Arletty, Parisian film star, in "Children of Paradise” (Esquire, opening today). Downing what appear to be martinis are brother and sister, Jeanne and James Cagney, in "The Time of Your Life" (Loew's, next Saturday). The gent with the striped tie quizzing Constance Bennett is Barry Sullivan, in "Smart Woman" (Lyric, Wednesday).
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By Erskine Johnson
i HOLLYWOOD, July 31 — Comes now ‘a wave of Hollywood
economy-wave humor: Madeleine Carroll and Richard Greene were playing a scene in an empty room for “The Fan.” A studio electrician wandered on
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the set and said: “Hmmm--I didn’t know retrenchment had gone;
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When Milton Hill heard about|wii produce. . .. MGM is talking MGM's projected sequel to’ “Alt, pyke Ellington about the film Weekend at the Waldorf.” he SUg-i rights to his - Broadway-bound gestedthe title. “Monday at thelsnow «Coal Black and Blue,” Loan Company.” And some'Wag\which will star Lena Horne. .". . put up a sign in a hallway atis, Australian theater chain is Universal - International, latest ,gering Dinah Shore a fortune studio to be hit by mass em-|¢or 5 three-week tour. ployee layoffs. It reads: i nn + " | Beware of Falling Heads.” | gener williams’ hubby, Ben
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the Hollywood night club dancer, lead opposite Judy Garland in are telling friends they are in “Annie Get Your Gun.” love and that will be a November * nn
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rector, Billy Selwyn, called an 5- agent to hire a well-known actor-g-IarTaior for the voice of the Yaire house in “Enchantment.” The in “The Barkleys of B 2 ay.” house plays a prominent role in But Eleanor’s name re s on the narration of the story. : the door, as per L. B. Mayer's The agent agreed on the rol order when she checked off the and the fee and then kidded: “By lot. + \ [the way, how big is the house?” 8 = “Eight rooms,” replied Selwyn. JUNE “ALLYSON and Van] The agent sneered. “That's not Johnson have a backstage Broad- such an important role. My client way story, “Footlight Fancy,” which they hope, MGM
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NEXT WEEK'S and probably the entire summer's biggest event will be “Care men,” at Butler Bowl Wednesday and the followimg Sunday. That's not forgetting the Summer Symphony's concert at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow | at the Bowl, with Patrice Munseél, the Met's youngest coloratura, as soloist. ; Fabien Sevitzky's production of the Bizet opera will be a test of popular re- | sponse to the “Stars Under the Stars” program. My guess is it will be sensationally successful.
WHATEVER has been said about Indianapolis as a difficult and unpredictable show last summer's tremendous turnout for “Alda” indicated a large potential audience for first-rate entertainment. If the two performances of “Carmen” draw as well as I think they will, we'll have a“ better notion of how to plan next summer's Bowl series. Dorothy Knisely, publicity director for the Indianapolis Symphony, who is taking a busman’s holiday publicizing the Bowl series this summer, has submitted about 10 pages of copy on “Carmen.” It's that kind of production, with everything but elephants. In fact, one spectacular feature will be the Murat Shrine Horse Patrol in the pre-bullfight procession. > * 4 THE CAST will be huge—some 200 persons. And since “Carmen” moves a good deal more than most other grand operas, the staging is big problem. If you saw the picture-story in The Times last Thursday of a typical Sevitzky ‘rehearsal, you'll know Maestro Fabien is knocking himself
out to make the opera a brilliant and lively per- |
formance. In case you have forgotten, here are the principals in the cast: Regina Resnik, who sang with Dr. Sevitzky and the Symphony in an allWagner program last spring, will sing the title role of the heartless and mercenary cigaret-girl of Seville. Brian Sullivan will be Don Jose; Hugh Thompson, Escamillo, and Claudia Pinza,
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OTHERS Ruisi, Dr. Sevitzky’'s assistant stage director, Zuniga; David Alken of Bloomington, who.
had leads in Indiana University operas this season, as Morales; Dean Craft, Indianapolis, as Pastia; Jane Johnston, also of Indianapolis, as Frasquita; Lois Gentile, heard this summer with George Tozzi in Dry Sevitzky's all-Gershwin cone cert at the Bowl, as Mercedes, and John Hurley and Mr. Tozzi as Remendado and Dancdiro, the smugglers. Briefly, the story of “Carmen” concerns the crazy things a good guy will do when he's fascinated by a no-good woman. For modern American audiences, the story was made clearer in “Carmen Jones” than it traditionally has been in the French of Bizet's opera. But Dr. Sevitzky is wisely presenting "Care men” in English. There should be no difficulty in following the plot—one of the strongest and least antiquated in all grand opera. > © ° BIZET'S score is wonderfully satisfying and appropriate music, as you don't have to be told, Not just for the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song,” but for the less familiar arias and the choral and Incidental music. From what I hea 3 at rehearsal last Tuesday night, I can guarantees you'll like the chorus. Mara Davedova will be choreographer and,
\premiere danseuse in the ballet numbers, im-
portant in “Carmen.” : a The “Carmen” stars will be heard in an all operatic concert by Dr. Sevitzky and the Sum-
mer Symphony at 8:30 p. m. next Friday. Miss Res Mi Re tad arias, Dr, d in the
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