Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1948 — Page 13

Hoagy Carmichael Show Friday Hailed as Event of the Week

Composer Bringing ‘Stardust Revue’ to Butler Fieldhouse;

Advance Publicity for Hoosier Cites British ‘Raves’ By HENRY BUTLER Next week's biggest entertainment event will be the Hoagy Carmichael show at

Butler Fieldhouse Friday night.

If Hoagy's “Stardust Revue” has the boxoffice success it deserves, it may be followed by other important shows during the winter, according to Ross Christena, local

impresario. ’

Mr. Christena cagily hints at the possibility of booking such personalities as Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore for future programs.

Meanwhile, advance publicity for Mr. Carmichael includes copious quotations from London newspapers: reviewing the Hoosier composer's appearances last month in the British capital. Hoagy evidently mowed the Britishers down. b ¢ . © WHAT SEEMS to impress our British cous-4 ins, as it also impresses American audiences, is Hoagy's quiet, modest manner. Hoagy is a master of understatement, which the British have cultivated for a couple of centuries now, And so he succeeds where many a noisy, brash entertainer might fail The august London Times speaks of “a suggestion of uncertainty” in Mr. Carmichael’s manner. It’s a keen observation. Those who saw the Carmichael show at English’s a couple of seasons ago will remember that Hoagy manages somehow to give the impression of being an amateur, of just casually sitting down at the piano to play a number and sing a bit. ® © ~ NO BRASSY assurance-no toothy grin of professional selfsatisfaction. On the stage, Hoagy is what he always has been in the movies —the quiet Yttle guy whose silence is more eloquent than some people's talk. In his acting, * in his playing and in his composing, there's restraint and good taste. He's one of the great personalities in show business, with a reputation that’s grown steadily over’ a period of years, There are plenty of flashier characters on stage and screen, but there are few others you feel you must:not miss seeing. v . ® %

SPEAKING OF personalities, now is a good time for a few words. about Fritz Kreisler, who will appear in recital on the Martens Series

Nov. 14 in Murat. : I'm reminded of a story about Mr. Kreisler at an ASCAP (the music-writers’ outfit) dinner

‘Jn New York some years ago. At the speakers’.

table and elsewhere in the big room there were a number of self-conscious well-heeled composers of hit tunes, anxiously looking around for recognition. Some of them drew applause when: they made their entrances. 23 But when Mr. Kreisler arrived, somewhat tardily, and walked toward a table off in a corner, the entire assemblage—tin-pan alley pre-

dominating—rose in silent tribute to a great

man. Unless you remember the era of the late teens and early 1920s, when Kreisler records were Victor best-sellers, you may not recall the tremendous service Mr. Kreisler did for music. Like the great John ‘McCormack, Mr. Kreisier performed popular tunes with consummate artistry and thus bridged a gap in the public's musical education. : ® @

THERE HAVE been and are more flawless technicians, but, as many critics have observed, even the faults in Mr. Kreisier’s fiddle-playing are in a sense virtues, They are part of a highly individual style, which no one has successfully copied. Personifying as he does a whole era that has vanished, Mr. Kreisler is an artist no one should miss seeing and hearing.

“ » Movie Memory Trick HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18 (UP)—The latest trick to put audiences in the mood for a movie is to fill the picture with old-time songs that bring back mersories. : When Paramotint wants you to think about a love scene, for instance it plays “Smiles.” It hopes that will’ make you more interested in Alan Ladd’s love affairs. : |The old-time popular songs introduced into Paramount's “The Great Gatsby” were chosen to place the time of the picture and also to move the plot along.

Tough on Glamour Girls

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18 (UP)—Glamour girls are keeping Hollywood's insurance agents busy these days insuring them against mayhem. Life in thé movies is getting rough. + The way they're making movies these days, a Sts likely a find Betiayes scrate out, her 4 a e or two i : ae rs had a scrap with men Ram Jane Russell got at the f “The Paleface.” Audrey Totter tangles with a woman wrestler in “Dark Circle.” : i ‘ A

Loew's "PITFALL"

Butler Fieldhouse ; HOAGY CARMICHAEL'S # "STARDUST REVUE"

VARIETY—Cornel Wilde and Anne Baxter, involved in small town gossip, are two principals in "The Walls of Jericho" (Indiana, Wednesday). . Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott have a brief, quilty romance in "Pitfall" (Loew's, Wednesday). That's William Powell reclining with his head on Mermaid Ann Blyth's lap in "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid" (Circle, Thursday). Where it says: "Murat, Symphony," that's Jennie Tourel, phe: nomenal coloratura mezzo-soprano, to be heard with Fabien Sevitzky and the orchestra Dec. 18 and 19. It's not Charlie Chaplin, but Hitler himself in "Will It Happen Again?" documentary film made from captured German newsreels (Lyric, Wednesday). Indiana's own Hoagy Carmichael will bring his "Stardust Revue’ to Butler Fieldhouse next Friday. Orrin Tucker and his band will open the Indiana Root's 1948-49 dancing season next Friday. And the relatively peaceful scene from Jean Cdcteau's "Beauty and the Beast! (Esquire, Friday) is a contrast to some horrifying sequences.

Bogie's Tough as Ever y By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Sept 18.—Baby Bacall was at home posing for a - national ne photographer who wanted a picture story titled “How to Be Beautiful Though Pregnant.” Humphrey Bogart, never beautiful, was at Romanoff’s eating his ‘morning eggs Benedict and talking about everything from how mad he gets when the studio retouches his photographs—“I stay up late to get those lines in my face ET rr and then the studio paints ’em| “About her suspension at Warout"—to his reasons for thinking ner Brothers?" : that Hollywood's own censorships| “Still status quo—they're rtill

film gangsters s thetic spitting at each other. And if you Egakes Sim § ipa ¢| wanta crusade against an unfair

suspension, Baby's is it. They suspended her for refusing to render her services, but there was no “They picture for her to render her servwith tear |ices in. No script, no director, no gas tommy at the guy |[players. It's fantastic.” and people feel for him.” .-.n 8 “About your new. picture?” Ii BOGIE started the heroic asked, Title: “Knock on ag cycle with “The MalOr. - tese Falcon,” followed 'by- Dick "Tm 24 tough 2s syer. he 8814, powell and now Gene Raymond BOGIE switched the conversa-|in “Sofia.” tion to Baby. “I'm proud of her “It's funny aint it? in ‘Key ; She's a human sheered. “I come to work withbeing fora instead of that, out shaving and with » frightening monster Howard over I start » big

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‘Will It Happen Again?’ Documentary Film on Hitler, to Open at Lyric Wednesday; ‘Mr. Peabody and Mermaid’ at ( THE HOLDOVER OF Abbott and Costello's lark with weird playmates Indiana has postponed until next Wednesday the opening of “The Walls of Jericho." start a documentary film, “Will It Happen

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On Thursday, the Circle opens the somewhat fantastic comedy, “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid,” and on Friday Loew's will start “Pitfall” and the Esquire “Beauty

and the Beast,” another French film. ‘DESCRIBED here last week, “The Walls of Jericho” is based on Paul Wellman's best seller about life in a small Kansas town a generation

ago. » Cornel Wilde is a young lawyer whose unfortunate marriage to his landlady's daughter

almost wrecks his life. To make things more

complicated, he is vamped by the town’s social.

empress, Linda Darnell, and falls in love with a young woman lawyer, Anne Baxter. Gossip, scandal and finally murder enter into the story. “Will It Happen Again?”, produced under sponsorship of the Navy Club of the United States of America, is assembled from captured Nazi newsreels, It is said to give unusual inside glimpses of Hitler's life, both official and personal, including

scenes of the fuehrer and Eva Braun at play, if

you can imagine that. ® © 9» “MR. PEABODY and the Mermaid” based on the Guy and Constance Jones novel, “Peabody’s Mermaid,” has Willlam Powell in the role of the 50-year-oldster who falls in love with a mermaid, Ann Blyth, Somewhat more decorously clad than mermaids traditionally are, Miss Blyth causes a great deal of trouble for Mr. Powell and his wife, Irene Hervey. “Pitfall,” which day, Friday, is a story of what can happen to an insurance claim-adjuster when he decides his life is too prosaic and craves romance,

Loew's starts on its new

¢ 5 9 DICK POWELL, though happily married to Jane Wyatt, meets Lizabeth Scott in the course of his insurance work. ' As the press book puts it, “A can be strong as steel, but somewhere ’'s & woman who'll break him.” Miss Scott, bedides being vo and in the film rather unscrupulous, has das connections with the underworld. -

So first thing you know, Mr. Powell is fighting and shooting and being shot at--all because he didn’t keep his mind on business. In a town with as many insurance firms as Indianapolis ‘has, “Pitfall” should be a good; morally upnttmg picture, ro a “BEAUTY AND THE

Friday offering, was written and. directed |

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about it as a film for adults, warn that “F and the Beast” is not for ne not for small children. EH

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er to Guide D, 18. (UP)—The Society anc and 1 at of Mothers has beet with horse operas, Did you ‘ever se¢ a mother in a cowboy pleture? ;

thers, sure, but A mom. “You'd think,” says actress Nan Leslie indignantly, “that people in the West were hatched out of eggs.” ath Channa Miss Leslie has been in countless wild west pictures, She often has a father, but she never has a mother. ; 8 “That gives the villains the nice old man,” she

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second fiddle to a horse.

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