Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1948 — Page 9

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Carmen.” Two Concerts Scheduled at Butler

Final Two Weeks of Stars Under Stars to Begin Tomorrow Night

y HENRY BUTLER

| Donna Comstock.

TOMORROW'S "REPETITION of Fabien Sevitzky's |

brilliant “Carmen” production opéns the final two weeks | “of the Butler Bowl season. Several thousand general admission seats will go on

sale at the Bowl at 7 p. m. tomorrow for the opera, which |

starts, of course, at 8:30. Two concerts by Dr. Sevitzky and the Summer Symphony are scheduled for next week: The all-Viennese program Wednesday, and the season's final concert, with Thomas L. Thomas, baritone, as soloist next Friday. “The Vagabond King" Rudolf ¥Friml operetta will com-

mence its seven-night run Sunday, Aug. 15.

- ” ” SOLOISTS FOR next Wednesday's Viennese program will*be Marguerite McClelland, Soprano, who, besides achievements in music, has won such distinctions as being Miss Louisiana of 1946 in the Atlantic City beauty pageant; Martha Larrimore, contralto, who has starred in St. Louis, Memphis and Detroit light | opera, and Jon Crain, tenor, | who has been Heard in Indian- | apolis “with Xavier Cugat's | touring company.

IN NEXT FRIDAY'S concert, Mr; Thomas will sing two op] eratic arias®and a number of | popular songs, including “OI Man River,” “Can I Forget You,” “Nocturne” and “Song of the Vagabonds.” He has also a list ,of encores ready for his Indianapolis audience. Dr. Sevitzky and ‘the orchestra. will play two popular reguests: The Sevitzky ment of Cole Porter's “Night and Day” and Khatchaturian “Saber Dan Other orchestral numbers will: include the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Fifth | Symphony, - Beethoven's “Ege | mont” Overture, Sibelius’ “Valse Triste,” Mascagni’s "Cavalleria Rusticana” and Lionel Barrymore's arrangement of “On: the Banks of the Wabash.”

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FOR THEATER - GOERS— James Cagney and ‘James Barton have ° confab over a revolver in "The Time ot Your Life" (Loew's, Wednesday). Top center. is. Marguerite McClelland,” soprano, one of Fabien Sevitzky's soloists in the Viennese program by the Summer Symphony (Butler Bowl Wednesday). The two gals in ironclad foundation® garments are; left right, Julie London and Susan Hayward in "Tap Roots" (Indiana, Wednesday). Grouped horseshoe fashion = are six of Mara Davedova's ballet dancers, who will appear again in “Carmen’' at the. Bowl tomorrow night. right: Joanne Nimb, Lucille Brakopp, Robert Curran, Peter Gennaro, Jean Kinsella - and Looking dreamy-eyed over the red wine and Italian breadsticks are Betty Hutton and Macdonald Carey in "Dream Girl" (Circle, Thursday). Thomas L. Thomas, lower Jeft, will be principal soloist in the Summer Symphony's final concert next Friday at the Bowl. And lower right is Gerard Philippe, starring in the French film "The Idiot,” opening today at the Esquire.

Bette Opposes

Closed- -Eye Kiss

HOLLYWOOD, Aug: 7 (UP)

| —A_ girl who tloses her eyes {| when she is kissed, says Bette | Davis, misses a lot.

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Miss Davis keeps her eyes wide oped =< “I like to see what -I'm doing,” she explained, as Robert Montgomery planted a warm kiss on her cheek. “It's more interesting that way.” Miss Davis and Montgomery share several kisses in their new Warner Bros. comedy, “June Bride.” Despite the kisses, Miss Davis is not the bride. There's something to be said for daintily -dropping your lashes as the man closes in, Miss Davis admits, It has an encouraging I-give-in effect. “But it's not nearly so satisfactory.” she insisted, “as look- |

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‘Tap Roots’ to Open at Indiana, ‘Man-Eater of Kumaon’ at Lyric.

Skelton Continues Through Friday at Loew's; ‘Dream Girl’ To Appear on Circle Screen Thursday; ‘The Idiot’ at Esquire A TECHNICOLOR screen version of James Street's historical novel, “Tap Roots,”

will open Wednesday at the Indiana.

On the same day, the Lyric starts “Man-Eater of Kumaon,” based on.Jim Cor-.

bett’s tiger book, “Man-Eaters of Kumaon.”

Loew’s, which has missed a couple of ratchets in the gear of time and may be several weeks getting back to Wednesday openings, again will start its new feature on Saturday, Aug. 14—a postponement of “The Time of Your Life,” while Red Skelton continues peddling Fuller brushes in “The Fuller Brush Man" through next xt Friday. y

ELMER RICE'S “Dream Girl,” sgen bere on i= the stage when the Jordan Conservatory Players produced it last spring will appear on the Circle screen Thursday. And the Esquire continues its quality-film program with the French

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commencing today. Van Heflin, Susan Hayward and Boris Karloff are the principals in “Tap Roots,” a story _of a small district of southern Mississippi which attempted to secede from- the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War, Devoted to freedom and opposed to slavery, the inhabitants of the district fight a hopeless and losing battle against Confederate forces. The film, in which Mr. Karloff appears as an Indian, the kind of role®he had in “Unconquered,” is in technicolor. ~ » ” “MAN-EATER OF KUMAON,” the Lyrics Wednesday novelty, concerns the ravages of & tiger in northern India. The animal has developed a somewhat anti-social appetite for human flesh, and is raising the local mortality rate and causing panic among the populace. Wendell Corey, a screen newcomer, is cast in the role of an American hunter who undertakes to rid the region of the menace. Sabu, one-time elephant boy and more recently a GI with a distinguished war "record, and Joanne Page are a young native couple almost tragically involved in the STUesoms ‘business. » » ? Pr NREAM -GIRL,” Betty Hutton has the of Georgina Allerton, the gal always seek. ing escape from harsh or boring fact through daydreams. She imagines herself in all sorts of melodramatic situations, from opera stardom to Inglorious suicide in a South Pacific Bonky-tonk. Macdonald Carey is the guy: who has terice and common sense enough to jolt her ne of revery into reality. Also in the cast are Patric Xuowles, Virginia Field, Walter Abel and Peggy

“ . s . : “THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE” (Loew's, next Saturday) was briefly described here last week. It's the film version of Willlam Saroyan’s play about a San water front saloon the remarkable rs who hang out there. Those include: James Cagney and his sister J Cagney, *"Willlam Bendix, Wayne Morris, James Barton and a lot of others, among them Paul Draper, the tap-dancer, and Reginald Beane, the boogie pianist.

IN CASE you haven’ t read the novel, “The Idiot” is the story of a young Russian prince who has achieved an almost Christ-like simplicity and goodness of character. He's too good for

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the society he | lives in, yet not quite quite able 10 attain complete other-worldliness. (Most of us aren't apt to experience his dilemma.) Metropolitan reviewers have been enthusiastic about the film. Like many other European pictures, it goes much deeper than Hollywood's films usually do into the fundamentals of human nature.

4 Months a Year Enough in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (UP)~John Garfield announced today he is spending just four months a year in Hollywood, earning enough money to spend the other eight in New York. “I'll make as much money as we need during the summer months,” Mr. Garfield said, “and work for nothing, if necessary, during the | winter, “I sometimes think that if it werent for the fact that I can earn more money in Ho.dywood than on Broadway, I'd never again work on a studio sound stage.” Most actors who flotince off to Broadway are flops. But ever since “Body and Soul” and “Gentleman's Agreement.” every producer in town has been _breaking down Mr. Garfield's door. It was too much for Mr. Garfield, He sald no to theast $260,000 offer and beat it. Instead he 100K an $80 & week part in an tal Broadway play, “Skipper Next to God.” However, you can’t keep a family in T-<bone steaks on that. “I'll do a picture in the summer, ” he decided. “It pays the bills.” And he'll do a play in the winter, It cuts down the taxes,

Gracious Oscar Winner

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 ( UP)—Loretta Young hopes that she hasn't a bit since she won an Oscar for being the best actress of

the year. “It would be awfully silly,” she sald, “not things that gave me a

So Miss Young is not insisting on big dramatic parts or trying to build up her share of a picture or snubbing her co-workers. “Winning luck or a combination of circumstances which call attention to a particular picture or part”

she. said. “I'm not trying fo forget that a single instant.”

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Hollywood Economy. | Gag By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Aug 7—A studio boss called in a stat” "and said, “From now on we make only western pictures.”

The staff was dumbfounded. “Why?” they Sanden “Because,” ‘said the producer, “we're only one ahead of the sherift and I figured we might as well be using him in

|r pictur Wear panchromatic make-up, OKAY, MAYBE it isn’t true... We'll pay you $7.50 a day, But it'd typical of what's going! You'll play an engineer. 4 Bring on in Hollywood's current econ-| your own engine.” Ag omy wave, brought on by a| Another studios announcement falling domestic box office and (to its writers that, in future films, the ef foldo, of the foreign the hero and heroine should be market. orphans so it will not be necessary All of Holfywood's current hu-(to hire any parents for them. mor, In fact, 1s about cutting’ down expenses. Like the one about the pro-lcouldn’t afford to rent a herd of ducer who took a friend to 230,000 cattle for an important projection room to see the rushes stene in a western. But he had _his latest epic. ‘The lights an idea. He assembled his emwent dark and, for three min-|ployees and had ; utes, the camera panned aroundian off-stage mike an empty room. Finaly the! cameraman actors appeared. fup of the hero “What happened?’ said the friend. The producer replied: “We start shooting" at 8:30-—actors or no actors.”

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