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Indiana "THE STREET WITH NO NAME"
What Outdoor Shows Do You Want in '49?
Local Activity Closes Tonight; Officials
Welcome Suggestions for Future Series By HENRY BUTLER LOCAL THEATER activity will start its annual
lengthy siesta when “The Vagabond King” closes to-
night at Butler Bowl.
That leaves little to write about, unless I give you a long statistical story on what you can can expect on the local
stage through next May.
organization closes its tem- |
A story like that strikes me |. porary summer office next Sat-
as just about as boring to read as it is to write. One subject seems especially important to me today: That is the Butler Bowl program and its possible future. o s » THE Indianapolis Theater Association, which took a financial beating at the Bowl this year, certainly would welcome any apd all suggestions for next year’s program. They want to know what you want in thé way of outdoor summer entertainment. But I wonder how many citizens who have attended Bowl programs would take the trouble to sit down and write even a postcard naming opera, an operetta, a ost or perhaps a name band they'd like to have at the Bowl next summer? People write tons of mail to radio stations. If the Theater Association got anything MHke that response from local patrons, planning next summer's program wou | be 3 lot easier.
ONE THING seems certain: Fabien Sevitzky will be back at the old stand with another opera. “Carmen” this year drew a total of more than 13,000 persons for its two performances, and ‘would have done better if the first night's weather had been less threatening. Tt wouldn't be a bad idea to start thinking about what opera you'd like to hear next summer — Opera or operas. When you make your choice, write it or them on a card .and send them in. You miay address your Suggestions to. Howard Harrington, manager, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 202 N. Illinois St.
. ” . MR. HARRINGTON has offered to forward any Wiltien 1 SuEECStions to officials o e Theater Association after that
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urday. Would you like to hear at least one soloist who has the box-office power of Marian Anderson, Lily Pons, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Dorothy Maynor or Jose Iturbi? Last year, when I suggested asking Miss Anderson or Miss Maynor to appear on this summer's program, Theater Association people told me they couldn't afford to engage soloists who ask such high guarantees. My contention was, and is, that you've got to spend money to make money. You run a chance with a ‘high-guarantee soloist. Weather may be bad, as it was so often this year. But you've got also a very good chance that your soloist will absolutely pack the Bowl, as I'm sure Miss Anderson or Miss Maynor would. » - ”
WOULD LOCAL PATRONS |
like at least one name band on next summer's program? Last year I suggested Duke Ellington as one possibility. The problem, of course, is to choose the band that’s going to bring in revenue. If Fred Waring could draw nearly 10,000 persons, as I recall, to Butler Fieldhouse in September, ’46, maybe he or some comparable bandleader could do. even better in the Bowl, Final question, but not the least important: ally like and want operetta of the moonlight, roses and swordplay school? Would you rather have something like “Oklahoma,”™ if that could be produced here? The Times Hoosier Forum
certainly is open to any letter-.
writers with suggestions or criticisms concerning the summer program.
Some good rousing letters on |
the subject undoubtedly would prove helpful to the Theater Association.
Do you actu |
PLAYERS — In a do- | mestic scene from ‘The Paradine Case," Gregory | Peck gazes tenderly at Ann Todd asleep (Loew's Wednesday). The two
"Vagabond King'' charac- | Ann Smith, as |
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Margot the tavern-keeper, and Dennis Carroll, as Noel
‘le Jolys, in the Friml oper-
etta playing its final performance at Butler Bowl tonight. Below them, acting drunk in the. binge sequence of "The Informer," is Victor MclLaglen with a couple of blond numbers who are out for no good
(Esquire, next Friday). The |
trio from ''The Street With No Name" are, left to right, Mark Stevens, Barbara Lawrence and Richard Widmark (Indiana, Wednesday). In that fancy feathered chapeau is Lucille ‘Bremer, with Louis Hayward, center, and Zachary Scott ‘in "Ruthless” Cirle. Thursday). Brian Donlevy plants a caress on Marjorie Reynolds, while Jorja Curtright looks on disapprovingly in "Montana Mike" (Lyric, Wednesdpy). :
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New FBI Documentary Film
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Opens at Indiana Wednesday
‘Street With No Name’ to Be Shown; Loew's Has ‘The Paradine Case’; Lyric, ‘Montana Mike’; Circle, ‘Ruthless’; Esquire, ‘The Informer’ ANOTHER FBI documentary film is arriving next week. It's “The Street With No Name,” all about the peace-time campaign of J. Edgar Hoover's outfit against crime (Indiana, Wednesday). Loew's has “The Paradine Case” coming up Wednesday; the Lyric, “Montana
Mike";
the Circle, on Thursday, “Ruthless,” and the Esquire, next Friday, a reissue
of “The Informer,” that multiple-prize winner of 1935.
“THE STREET WITH NO NAME,” announced as a successor to the espionage drama, “The House on 92d St.” involves Mark Stevens,
Lloyd Nolan and Barbara | Lawrence in what seems to be a reasonably ex-
| citing crime-and-detection story.
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The film shows how the FBI repeatedly has broken up dangerous gangs by infiltrating agents into gang ranks. * % 0 “THE PARADINE CASE,” heralded by plenty of publicity, is an Alfred Hitchcock job, with Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Valli and Joan Tetzel in the cast. It's all about a high-society murder trial in London. The defendant, Valli, is accused of having poisoned her husband. The defense attorney, Mr. Peck, falls for Valli's charm and nearly loses his marital happiness with Miss
Aig, expensive job, it should be worth see- . Critical comment has been enthusiastically favorable. : * & oO:
THE LYRIC'S “Montana Mike,” described as a western with a new twist, certainly has just that. In it, Robert Cummings plays the Arch-
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out some people's lives in Montana. Brian Donleyy e rip-roarin’, half-villain, half-hero, with Reynolds, Jorja Curt-
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win and John Litel also in the cast. © o “RUTHLESS,” the Circle's Thursday feature, presents Zachary Scott up to his old tricks. This time, he's a man greedy for money and power, heedless of the women whose lives he wrecks. (Funny how those dames in those pictures keep coming back for more punishment.) In the current chronicle of elegant Mr, Scott's screen wickedness, he is supported by Diana Lynn, Lucille Bremer, Louis Haywasd, Sydney Greenstreet and Martha Vickers. ¢ 4 ¢ “THE INFORMER,” as you may remember, is that great picture about the Sinn Fein rebellon in Ireland of the 1020s. Based on Liam O'Flaherty’s novel, it gives Victor McLaglen what now seems to have been the greatest role
"of his film career.
Mr. McLaglen squeals on his pal, Wally
Ford, and gets 20 pounds reward. Intending to | use the money for passage to America with his.
street-walker girl-friend, he instead makes the mistake of going on a bender, For seven wild hours, he goes pub-crawling until his former pals catch up with him and take their revenge. - . Hardly for the kiddies, but a t picture in Hollywood. history, ¥
star In a sequel to his “The Jolson Story.” studio needs something, feuds can turn {nto moonlight and x0ges. "wow
The Frank Sinatras are extremely lovey-dovey these days. Friends say the birth of their third child really Sskustiod this marriage. Oh well, guess some people just need 1 lot of cement. » » ” » NO ONE can say the Humphrey Bogarts aren't careful. They've already built a fence around their swimming pool, to. protect the baby-which won't be born until February. . » #
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Merchant of Menace. oS » » NOW IT'S a canoe-in. A resort owner on a Minnesota lake has installed a screen near the shore and you watch the movie from your canoe. Instead of rolling in the aisles ‘you fall in the lake. ' ~ » . The high price of meat isn't worrying Dinah Shore and George Montgomery's friends.
Dinah and George are import
ing meat from their Montana ranch and selling it at cost, How about a “Meat Night” at movie, Sheafers?
GLADYS SWARTHOUT has joined the parade to television. Bhe's planning a series of 15 film shorts as a kick-off. . . Actress Lee Patrick says she can hardly wait for a phone call from “Stop .the Music.” She doesn't want the expensive wants the week’s work in .a picture’ they're pitering. : ”
CHARLES French singer, is suing Eagle Lion for a billion bucks, charging breach of contract. The inside story will make wild reading—if it ever Columbia are talking abodt' a ¥
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ing for independent production, hough Lucille Bremer will ‘make her home in Mexico,
ing to producer Arthur Lyons about another stint Yor Producing Artists. Film Glamour. Gil
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