Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1948 — Page 11

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Gounod Opera Will Feature Jean Carlton and Louis Roney;

‘Annie’ Play, Hazel Scott Recital, Are Other Attractions By HENRY BUTLER THE Charles Wagner production of “Romeo and Juliet” on Oct. 18 will start in-

creased activity at the Murat.

First event in this season's Martens Concerts Series, the touring version of Gou-

nod’s great opera will have Jean Carlton as Juliet and Louis Roney as Romeo.

Artistic director of the production is Desire Defrere, stage director of the Metropolitan Opera Co., with Walter Ducloux, young Swiss-American conductor, directing

the orchestra and chorus.

Miss Gladys Alwes, sponsor of the Martens series, has passed on Mr. Wagner's urgent request that spectators arrive promptly for the 8:30 p. m. curtain, since the

brilliant ballet starts early in Act. 1. BESIDES! HAZEL SCOTT'S recital at 8:30 tomorrow, other important events this month will include the recital by Bomar Cramer, former Indianapolis pianist, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 24; a recital by Robert Merrill, radio baritone, at 8:30 p. m. Oct. 26 in Cadle Tabernacle and the threeday run of ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ opening at the Murat Oct. 27.

The “Annie” show ‘may prove ‘to be somes

thing of ‘a test of local response. If the RodgersHammerstein MUEical, “so long 4 Broadway and"

touring success, does well with a fairly high price scale ($4.20 top), we may have a brilliant season, On the other hand—and it's a grim, wolf-like hand—if “Annie” lays an egg, there's no telling what we may expect from Broadway's strolling players in 1948-49. ® & o SHOW BUSINESS SEEMS rocky everywhere, with local tourists to New York and Chicago reporting little or no difficulty in getting seats for the big hits which formerly were sold out weeks and months in advance. We'll soon have a

chance to figure how much of the Indianapolis’

entertainment dollar is” likely to be spent this season for live shows. In the version of “Annie” coming here, Billie Worth will have the Mary Martin role, playing Taggart Casey, as Frank Butler. Others in the cast will include Donald Burr, Jack Ru ord, Tommy Wonder, Reta Shaw, Mimi

Walters, Zachary A. Chatles, Charlés Watts,

HAZEL SCOTT'S. program, released somewhat tardily by her agents, will open with a suite of her own composition called “Caribbean

Fete”. As in her previous Murat recital some three years ago, Miss Scott will devote the first half of the evening to serious musi¢, reserving swing and boogie for after intermission.

Her local admirers will welcome the incluslon.of such items as '‘Ain’t Misbehavin’, ‘Honey

suckle Rose” and “Tea for Two” in the popular group, which will.finish. with some of her. original boogie-woogie compositions. } Robert Merrill needs no introduction to radio listeners, And Bomar Cramer certainly is familiar in Indianapolis. . Mr. Cramer plays, as band men say, a lot of piano. He's one of the most exciting performers I've heard outside the small, nationally advertised clique of virtuosi. So I judge there'll be a good many listeners besides friends and former pupils present at his recital.

Calls U. S. Drivers ‘Polite’

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9 — The .American motorist gets a left-handed compliment - from the Italian star, Valli. He's not half so rude, she said, as motorists elsewhere. or “I think American drivers, and certainly those in southern California, are the most courteous I've ever seen,” she said. In Europe, especially in Italy and France, she sald, drivers are bombastic and argumentative,

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- ” Top Hands HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9 (UP) —The best way to get to’ the top in Hollywood, says John Wayne, is to start on top. There are some lucky stars, writers and producers who don't have to wear out shoe leather making the traditional rounds to agents .and casting directors. They happen to catch the fish. when they're biting. Three stars of Wayne's latest picture, Argosy's’ “The Three Godfathers” for M-G-M release, have come from nowhere in the last six months. Harry Carey Jr., had one big part before John Ford and Merian C. Cooper gave him the role. Armendariz came from Mexican films and starred in his American-made ' picture. Ben Johnson, former...rodeo. star, never acted before he was starred .in “Mr. Joseph Young of Africa.” “I could .go on all day” Wayne said, ‘listing people

who. hit. the jackpot the first-

time they pulled the lever.” The list also includes Wayne,

He ‘starred In hig’ first picture; ~

“The. Lonely Trajl."” » » ” HENRY Fonda started at the top by starring in his first picture. So did Joan Caulfield and Lizabeth Scott. William Holden was the ‘Golden Boy” from the Pasidena Playhouse. John Agar, Shirley Temple's husband, made his debut as a star in “Fort Apache.” Frank Nugent, who wrote that picture, never had written anything but magazine articles before. Lee Van Atta, associate Argosy producer, used to be a war correspondent, and producer Walter Shenson was a press agent. A lot of Texas oil men, with nothing but millions, have transferred .to films in one move, too, but that's a different matter, d

Bulky Tenor, Bad Men Due on Screen

Loew's to Show ‘Luxury Liner’; Italian Film, ‘Wrong Number’ Opus, Coming Here THE GREAT Lauritz Melchior will be back on the local screen in “Luxury Liner,” another lavish musical,

| coming to Loew's néxt Thursday.

The Indiana Wednesday will have the much-touted “Sorry, Wrong Number,” in which Barbara - Stanwyck learns of her approaching doom via telephone conversa-

tions. A gangdom opus, “Smart Girls Don’t. Talk,” will start Thursday at the Lyric —the same day with “Rachel and the Stranger” at the Circle. Friday's offering at the Esquire. will be, “This Wine of Love,” Italian screen version of Donnizetti’'s opera d’'Amore.”

» » ” MR. MELCHIOR now is involved in one of those Hollywood Hixury erufses to” South America which are becoming as frequent: as-episodes. in a.serial. Jane Powell and Thomas Breen are. the romantic... juveniles; George Brent and Frances Gifford are the middle-aged couple and Marina Koshetz and ‘the perennial Xavier Cugat and his orchestra complete the sailing list. “Sorry, Wrong Number” has had sufficient publicity to make its theme familiar. Miss Stanwyek, rich, neurotic wife of Burt Lancaster, is an imaginary invalid. Through conver sations on her bedside telephone, she learns of her hus= band’s complicity in a narcotics racket—learns also that she is the intended ¢ietim of a murder plot. y

» ” » “SMART GIRLS Don't Talk” has Virginia Mayo and Bruce Bennett in another of those stories demonstrating t h.a t

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gamblers are bad company tor

rich society girls, There's the usual proportion of murders, and in this instance it’s not the rising young district attorney who gets the gal-—it's the detective. Maybe that'll have some influence on.young men’s career plans,

“Rachel and the’ Stranger,”

based on Howard Fast's “Rachel,” is a love-triangle drama involving Loretta Young, Wil-

Ham Holden ‘and Robert Mitch

um. ...When Mr. Holden, a widower in the ploneer wilderness re alizes his young son needs a mother's care, marries a bondwoman, Miss Young. Their married life is not too congenial, since Mr. H. treats Miss Y. like a servant. And so when Mr. Mitchum, a charming but irresponsible wandering hunter, arrives on the scene, things are bound to happen—and do.

” » » “THIS WINE of Love,” Italfan filming of the Rome Grand Opera Co. doing Donnizetti's “L’Elisir d'amore,” is 4 comic opera treatment of the lovepotion _legerid. A bashful soldier tries to win His love by plying her with magic elixir— possibly on the theory stated more realistically by Ogden Nash's “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” A ’

He bilys and} on condition that he finds a

FUTURE FEATURES—In '"Rachel and the Stranger,” William Holden and Loretta Young are the not-foo-compatible married couple (Circle, Thursday). Billie Worth, wearing a modish frontier crea¥ion of buckskin, will have the leading role in the touri version of "Annie. Get Your Gun," Rodgers-Hammerstein music to visit the Murat for three days, starting Oct. 27. At the Indiana Roof with Alvino Rey, next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will be

Betty Bennet, vocalist. Number," the Indiana's Wednesday feature, wyck's phone conversations. Conversing with

Much of the terror of “Sorry, Wrong is in Barbara Stanhis cello is Pierre

Fournier, who will be heard with Fabien Sevitzky and the Symphony Nov. 20 and 21. Front and center is Lauritz Melchior, wearing part of his collection of medals while he combines tenor-singing with liner-steering for Thomas Breen and Jane Powell in "Luxury Liner™ (Loew's, Thursday). Leading singers in "This Wine of Love" (Ese quire, Friday) are Italo Tajo, basso, and Nelly Conradi, soprano. And Detective Richard Rober gives good advice to socialite Virginia Mayo in "Smart Girls Don't Talk” (Lyric, Thursday).

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By Erskine Johnson

———— a wages = HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9—News Item: “A man should be mentally successful - actor,” Nordhe

maladjusted if he wants to become a western University psychologists said today.

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The psychologists said they based their findings on an intensive study of the best student actors at Northwestern. Invariably they had leanings toward hysteria, depression and split personality.

‘Which explains everything: ow.» picturé for Walter Wanger only

story that meets with her approval. Wanger has been searching frantically for a vehicle to fit the glamorous but aging Swede, but so far has 'drawn a blank and, I understand, is on the verge of giving up the whole idea. * . r i M-G-M will remake “Johnny| w. R.

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