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“Sym phony Needs sLarge Hall Li! Lower Prices

Best Seats Too High and Youngsters Can't Afford Even the Cheapest Tickets at $1.80 By HENRY BUTLER STOP ME if you've heard this before, but I ‘want to talk about the Symphony today. : . The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is having

difficulty selling its Sunday coming season. Saturday night nearly always does well, especially Saturday night with a piano, soloist. - But box-office anemia sets in Sunday after-

noon. That's partly because Sunday afternoon isn’t as chic as Saturday night at the Murat. Even the most ardent and well-in-formed listeners get’ a bigger bang from the large and talkative throng Saturday night than they would from the relatively staid and quiet crew Bunday. But, the .Symphony’s: difficulties ‘go deeper than that. To

scratch the needle through a | well-worn groove, the Symphony | needs a larger hall so as to re- |

duce-the price scale.

i » » ” AFTER ALL, this $4.20 top price gives pause to people who feel obliged to choose between Beethoven and bourbon. the $1.80 minimum: is much too high to. aftract the youngsters who should be the Symphony's steadiest patrons. Thousands of kids in town would flock tothe concerts if

they could get in for the price |

of ‘« movie.” They should be able ‘to, and that's a problem Indianapolis must solve. The Symphony is offering

~ more $180 seats for the Sun-

day ‘coriéérts than for the Sat-: urday programs in the coming season. ‘That's a good idea, and it may help some. But the orchestra will never have its full potential audience until it has an adequate hall. Meanwhile, Symphony prospects are not good. And I think the reason for that lies in Hoosier psychology. Hoosiers just don't brag and boast and boost like Texans or Californians, There's a fixed idea you get | in casual local conversation, to the effect that doesn't m up

somparabie cities. A lot of

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Indianapolis | to other |

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afternoon concerts for the

-young people wan and if they can’t get away they

are frustrated and angry. They | think Chicago er. New York |

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| think Indianapolis can’t and | | won't produce anything first. |

| rate, even a symphony orches- { tra or “Stars Under the Stars.” { Now here’s a matter for both

| the city and the state Cham- |

bers of Commerce. The city and the state both need boosting in the prestige department. Sure, we have Speedway and the biggest hogs and the: most amazing corn.

But how about Fabien Sevit-:!

| zky’s orchestra as .a Neo. 1, Grade A, super-colossal advertisement for Indianapolis and Indiana? = - ~ A LITTLE ‘autobiography please, as Charlie Chan ‘woul say. Before Uncle Sam tapped |" me on the shoulder, I heard the i Indianapolis Symphony Orches-

{ ‘back in New Jersey. My previous recollection of Indianapolis had béen that it was an. obstacle on Routz 40 But whe:. I heard Dr. Sevitzky and his crafty musicians play-

{ air, I gained a new respect for i the Crossroads. Here's my present suggestion:

tra one evening on the radio |

ing Carnegie Hall stuff over the

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Indiana "BEYOND GLORY"

IN ACTION—The -two pairs of young people in the glamorous dude-ranch setting of “Two Guys From Texas'' are, left to right, Penny Edw#rds, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan (Circle, ThursAbout to throw an antique ax at Gene Kelly is Judy Garland in the big tantrum scene of "The Pirate” 's, Wednesday). Those three oriental-looking girls

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are, in customary order, Kathleen Naylor, Jean Colin and Elisabeth, Paynter in the British screen version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, ''The Mikado'' (Esquire, Friday). A tense-looking foursome in "Deep Waters" are Dana Andrews; Anne Revere, Dean Stockwell and Jean Peters (Lyric, Wednesday). Smiling cheek to cheek are Alan Ladd and Donna Reed in "Beyond Glory" (Indiana, Wednesday)

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27-~The separation of Robert and Barbara Ford, after only 41 days of marriage, was no surprise to their intimates. There was trouble the day after the marriage but Barbara, daughter of Director John Ford, agreed to a three-month trial. Even that {411 ghort of its mark. * Lucille Ball, who once worked ag a chorus gifl at Columbia for $50 a week, goes back t5 the studio at a sis-iigure salary for “Miss Grant Took Richmond.” Just b2ore Columbia fired her, she was the foil for the Three Stooges. Buciile says today: “Columbia fired me because there, wasn't anything left for

| the Three Stooges to hit me with.”

| and Mrs. George Cugat characters, is one of Hollywood's best fall |

Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra |

should be on the air regularly. That costs money. So does any other kind of advertising. r - ” I'M NOT arty matters with a raised eyebrow. I'm just. talking. plain horse-hog-corn sense. en the .tone-deafest person would agree that broadcasts by an orchestra

| favorably comparable with the |’

| big astern outfits ‘would boost | Indiana.

TALKING about |

Think of the Symphony as a

1: business proposition. Put some Texas-California: aggressiveness back of it. Show the big talkers from elsewhére that Indi-

| timid Hoosiers think it can't.

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Her new airshow. “My Favorite Husband.” based on the Mr,

prospects, Richard Denning plays’ the husband. When someone |

asked Lucille’s husband, Desi Arnaz, why he wasn't doing the show with her, he cracked: “I guess I'm not the type” # ” s ” ” Corps. He flew bombers during the war. . . The box office topped ‘Body and " in San Francisco. ... Lana

Turner, I hear, is exactly 25 heavier than when she left Hollywood for that European vacation.

boys a Ja Kay Thompson's act. friend, Tommye ‘Adams, just underwent an operation in New York, Mimi Chandler, daughter of baseball's high commissioner,

town hoping to resume the film career she gave up for marriage. . Mae Murray had turned playwright.

rival here was ‘written by the silent star,

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{ girl, is about to sign a flith contract. . | the New York Cushing millions, will angel three Hollywood movies

= EDWARD ARNOLD'S son, William, has rejoined the Air | . Henry Morgan's | +86 This Is New York” clicked after a slow start in Philadelphia.

| off Catalina. Glenn | his own company, Polly Pictures, can take a bow.

' him Back to. Hollywood with her. . Happy Chandler, has separated from her husband and is back in | | son, Allie. First unproduced play to | be “considered by Broadway producer William Katzell on his ar- |

DONNA REED: ahd husband, Tony Owen, who have two |

adopted kids, will adopt another. Broadway appearance in years. this fall in George Abbott's new comedy, “Shotgun Wedding.” to thejr bein abdut a divorce

. ZaBSu Pitts makes her first

,On the. same day that radio writer Larry Marcus sold “Sone-

where in the City” to, Warner Brothers for a fabulous sum. he didn't have $10 in cash to, pdy a fine for driving his automobile with two-year-old ligense platas. His agent went down and paid tae fine and then said to Larry: “I just can't understand how you could do such a thing.” “Believe me,” said Larry, "it wasn’t easy.” . ” r 5 . » ” FRANCES WAYNE, the "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” ++. Harry Cushing, scion of

starring his estranged wife, To win her back? Turhan Bey's summer stock stint, in i comedy “Second Man” at Princeton, N. J. is part of his campaign to escape Hollywood's type casting. He wants to shed those nativé roles. I'm happy to repert that someone finally has made a great anti-juvenile delinquency film. It's a 30-minute, 16-mm. short in

| color, “Forever Angler,” which preaches, via Bob Burns’ narra-

| tion, “Take a boy. fishing and keep him off the streets.” Judy Garland’s sister is rehearsing a singing act with four |

. George’ Jessél's favorite gal’

Scenes range all the way from trout fishing to swordfishing acWilliams, who produced and directed for

Belita is planning to adopt a French war orphan and bring Bob Alda is headed for a personal appearance tour. His straight man will be his 15-year-old +. Director Robert Wise, 1 hear, has ‘dreamed up the celluloid chase of the year in “Blood on the Moon.” Bob Preston chases Bob Mitchum on horseback in three feet of snow for an entire reel,

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‘Deep Waters,’ Lyric; A LONG-POSTPONED

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be Loew's offering next Wednesday, = © That picture was announced, in this | knows how many weeks ago. ’ It's finally arriving, complete with Judy Sariand o

Gene Kelly, not to mention THE INDIANA comes up with “Beyond Glory,” a film starring ‘Alan Ladd as a West Point cadet. - “Deep Waters” (Dana Andrews and Jean Peters) at the Lyric Wednesday; “Two Guys From Texas" (Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson) at the Circle Thursday, and “The Mikado,” a British technicolor = screen version of

the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, at the Esquire next Friday, complete the week's importantfilm program. “The Pirate” is based on a 8. N.. Behrman, a romantic, fanciful bit of business set on a Caribbean island

“in the 19th century. Miss Gar-

{ land, engaged to marry Walter

. The Alan Marshalls are talking |

Slezak, mayor of «the island capital, meets Mr. Kelly and - decides he's the one she really wants. ” ” n

BUT ROMANCE is no fun if | | it isn't. beset with problems. |

technicolor and use,

“Deep Waters,” a Ente that might mean a lot of th Adudity is ‘cohcerned ‘with | sea. Still better; it's about the

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all other advance sheets. movies, doesn’t miss a | suggests that sea food | rants and markets can dragged

“The Pirate” contains plenty, |

including one sequence in which Judy throws everything but the

kitchen stove at® Gene, such is | | her temper and temperament.

Gladys Cooper and Reginald Owen also are in the cast, and the music is by Cole Porter. . “Beyond Glory" presents Alan Ladd as a World War II

hero, who suffers from a sense

of guilt. During a battle, he passed out for three minutes, awaking to find his superior officer killed, Somehow he blames himself, and decides the only way to make amends is to dedicate himself to a military career. That's where West Point comes in. Mr. Ladd not only | gets admitted as 3 nd cadet, but also gets acquainted with Donna: Reed, widow of the slain Officer.