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Chicago Musical Comedy Cast to Appear With Billie Worth; ‘The Girl That | Marry’ Among Wide List of Popular Tunes

“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN,” still a reigning New York hit after two years, will |

play here at Murat Theater, Oct. 27, 28 and 29. -. The Chicago cast of the musical comedy will appear with Billie Worth, who re- L the candle.

placed Joan Edwards in the Chicago show,

The cast. includes Jack Rutherford, Donald Burr, Tommy Wonder, Reta Shaw, Mimi Walters, Zachary A. Charles, Charles Watts, Margaret Banks and Barton Mumaw. The production has | 56 speaking and singing parts, nine scenes and a large chorus to interpret its 22 musical numbers, The hit tunes include “The Girl That I | Marry,” “Doin’ What Comes Naturally,” .“They Say It's Wonderful,” “Lost in His Arms,” and “The Sun in the Morning.” There will be three nightly performances and a matinee on Friday. The same cast will play at. Indiana University Oct. 25 and 26. i oe

BOOGIE-WOOGIE artist Hazel Scott will present a “Back to Boogie” concert at the Murat Sunday, Oct. 10. “~ Miss Scott, whose piano interpretations of the classics and modern music have made her.a top recording star and entertainer, will feature herown suite, “Caribbean Fete,” her popular recordings, and songs by Fats Waller and Vincent Youmans, oo . . Tickets are on sale in the and H. P. Wasson. » ’ ‘ ® © 9 THE ROY Rogers Rodeo which has been thrilling capacity crowds at the Coliseum since its opening Wednesday, will continue through Tuesday with matinees today and tomgprrow. So far every performance has furnished audiences with some “not in the script” thrills which included one bronc buster being sent to the hospital and Brahma bulls trying to join the audiences two evenings. * > | ROBERT MERRILL, popular baritone on | RCA Victor Red Labels, will sing with the RCA

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the Murat Theater Monday, Oct. 18, under the |

auspices of the Martens Concert. The dance duo of Martinet and Beaudet will be featured in the production. This tour marks

| the first major engagemeént of the team outside

of New York City. Mary Martinet, daughter of the late operatic tenor, Eugene Martinet, has appeared bgth as a member of the ballet and as prima danseuse in “Carmen,” “La Traviata,” ‘Samson and Delilah” and in the Broadway hit “Brigadoon.” Mare Beaudet has appeared #@s featured soloist in Ballet SBoclety productions and in “Brigadoon.” Artistic director will be Desire Defrere, stage director of the Metropolitan Opera and Walter Ducloux, young Swiss-American conductor, will direct musical elements in the opera. . eo 2 THE ANNUAL SERIES of five travelogs by Burton Holmes will be presented in Murat Theater, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 2, and continuing for five successive Tuesdays. ...As in previous years, Mr. Holmes will {ITustrate his comments with mation “pictures. opening’ travelog: will be a jaunt through independent Eire, called “Sunny Ireland.” ‘Season reservations may now. be made at the Siusys Alwes Music Store, 120 “N. Pennsylvania

A 260-Pound ‘Heavy'— ' That's Perfect Casting

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2 (UP)—Director John Farrow hit a new high in casting when he gave the role of a heavy to 260-pound Maxine Gates. Mr. Farrow spotted

“Los Angeles harbor. She looked like just what he needed to engage Audrey Totter in a waterfront brawl in Paramount's “Dark Circle.”

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{ «Harpo Marx is fulfilling what | he believes to be the ambition

| of several million other New {' Yorkers, to ride the signs on Times Square. Harpo has looked at the “Time-to Re-tire” § ment for years. In)\his®latest | movie, Lester Cowan’s\'Blondes | Up,” he speeds by and blows out

The comedian also swings | back and forth on the pendulum of the Gruen clock. He plunges into a neon mattress. He flees | his pursuers astride companey’'s Pegasus. LJ » ~ AND when the villains finally catch up with him; Harpo leads them inside a cigaret sign and | everybody is “overcome by the | smoke rings. I This is | movies the | have a story. | proud of it. | “We gave a beginning writer | a chance,” Chico said, “a fel: | low by the name of Ben Hecht. We didn’t pay much for it—just £75,000." Besides making the movie, { both Chico and Groucho are

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CHICO said that was because Harpo could afford - to: stay home. “I play the horses, Groucho plays the stock market, and | Harpo is rich,” he explained. “I've lost $1,487,625.58 on the horses. How do I know? That's what Harpo has in the bank.”

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a word in “Blondes Up.” He turned down $55,000 to say just | ‘one | word—"murder”--in his last movie. i >

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‘One Touch of Venus’ Opens at Indiana;

‘Fighting Father Dunn’ Booked at Lyric

COMING ATTRACTIONS at Indianapolis theaters include a variety of fare, ranging from sage operas to | an outstanding foreign production. ’ The Esquire’s next imported production will be the English picture “I Know Where I'm Going,” which will

open Friday. Wendy Miller, star of “Pygmalion,” and Roger Livesey, of “Colonel Blimp,’ star in the J. Rank production. The screen adaption of a story inspired by Christopher Marlow's “Hero and {.eander,’ won views during its New York run, n = . BRUTALITY and blistering action are. the themes of “Coroner Creek,” a production which stars Randolph Scott and Marguerite

| Chapman. It opens. Thursday

at Loew's with “Lulabelle” as co-feature. |" The bright musical comedy #One- Touch of Venus” starring Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Olga San Juan and Dick Haymes will start Wednesday at the Indiana. The movie is staged on the musical play with music by Kurt Weill (composer of “Down in the Valley,”) book by 8. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash ' and ‘lyrics by Ogden Nash. . . n” ” PAT O'BRIEN is .an Insh priest again in “Fighting: Fath-

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| help under-priyileged children in the early 1900's. ‘Mystery in Mexico,” is the co-feature. With this startling, incidentally, Lyric inaugurates its new policy of segregated seating for children in answer to requests | from Mayor Feeney for better | protection against child moles: | tation in theaters, Frank M. { Paul, manager, has set aside a | down front section in which all unaccompanied children will be seatefl. - No adults will be allowed in the section, which will be under the supervision of a matron. The children’s section will be down front during the week and in the front balcony on week-ends. ny.-Frauds HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2:(UP)— A fashion expert says men wear more false padding than women. The girdle business would shrink sharply, designer Mary Kay Dodson said, if men didn’t | ‘buy them for their paunches. “There are more male frauds {than female,” Miss Dodson declared. "It's impossible to tell thé true shape of a man’s chest or shoulders. For one-thing, he always has his breast pockets | stuff with everything from } wallet” to thé Daily Racing | Form.” °

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COMING ATTRACTIONS—Ava Gardner has Robert Walker worried in "One Touch of Venus" (Indiana Wednesday): Billie Worth is Annie Oakley ala cheese cake in “Annie Get Your Gun" iMurat, Oct. 27, 28, 29): Randolph Scott protects Marguerite Chapman in "Coroner Creek’ [Loew's Thursday): Mary Martinet, ballagina, is featured in "Romeo and Juliet,” Martens Concert aHraction (Murat, Ocf. 18): two light comedies, Bob Hope. in "The Pale Face’ and John Lund and" Wanda Hendrix: in "Tatlock Millions,” both are coming to Indianapolis theaters soon: Wendy Hiller is the star of "| Know Where I'm Going," which opens Friday at the Esquire: Hazel Scott will present a boogie concert. Sunday &t the Murat. ‘ : !

Backstage Shoptalk By Erskine Johnson ~*~

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2- Now that Jimmy Stewart is In as the star of “The Lifé of Monte Stratton,” Donna Reed is out as the

film's leading lady, Hmmmm--backstage intrigue? . , . The James

Masons expect their baby in mid-October. Boy or girl, the child will be named Portland after Fred Allen's better half 5

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actor, Roger Anderson. Ditto for |™ === =" 0 . Virginia Grey (who has given up Eon 3o have when he goes to waiting for Gable) and Dr. Ed school? ine Lemonik. .........Bandleader (and. SHER. Le “ songwriter) Matty Malneck and pan " RA J his wife, Boots, are trying some- Nancy Kelly holds ab thing new. They've gone back t0|.inutes all by each other. 8. w.N stage, Wonder if any of the critics (and yaks a

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