Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1949 — Page 9
“Indiana
"YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY”
Lyric ““SEALED VERPICT™
For Somebody to Do Something
‘All My Sons’ at Civic, Jan. 14, Is Next Scheduled. Theater Event; French Baritone to Be Soloist With Symphony Week From Tonight
By HENRY BUTLER
where the hostess wishes somebody would recite SoHtHIng ® or sing a number; :
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Jan. 14 opening of ‘the Civic's next production, “All My Sons.” Fabien Sevitzky and the Symphony will light up the Murat this week end and | next with two pairs of subscription concerts. As previously announced, thie soloist to-
night and tomorrow afternoon will be Joseph ‘|=
Bloch, Indianapolis-born pianist. Next week's
soloist will be Martial Singher, eminent French
baritone. " Getting back to the stage question, now's as good a time as any to give the Civic a boost for making the largest local amateur contribution to live entertainment, With the hoped-for completiont next year of its expansion program, the Civic will reach a larger audience. I hope, and no doubt Director Jack Hatfield also hopes, that the expansion will help attract a larger group of aspiring actors. There can’t be too many trying out. And for all we know; there may be untalent among lochl groups who thus far have known very little about.the Civic. If professional stage costs continue spiraling upward, amateur or semi-amateur theater may experience a boom. Not all enthusiasts can afford $4.20 top, but plenty of us would rather
see a good stage show at $1.80 than three aver-
age movies. ® ¢ 9 IN S80 DULL a season as this has been, it's too bad wé haven't had things like the Indiana University opera productions of last spring: “rales of Hoffmann” and “Down in the Valley.” There was some talk at the time of bringing those attractions up here, but evidently rentals and overhead proved too high. There's no reason why.a- Hoosler’ ‘dreutt’ for amateur entertainment from universities and oolleges
should not be organized. No reason ex-
cept that no one has tried it. The IU Department of Speech has sent its National Theater Conference T: Co. around the state. An efficient organiza could keep some others of the best state-produced plays, operas, oper. ettas and musicals in efrculation. ° i THE SAME goes for music. And the newly
.Simfonietta in Mozart's Joverture, Haydn's D major symphony, No. 104,
eee | M188 Paige can hello with
thing. It's a ~ 22-piece orchestra composed of first-chair and principal players from the Symphony. Although it can't tackle the most massive modern things, it can do well with a large portion of symphonic literature. Such an orchestra can tour less expensively than the entire Symphony. If enterprising music-lovers throughout the state can provide engagements for it,”‘Particularly between the winter and summer seasons, the Simfonletta may eventually help solye the biggest local musical problem — year-round employment for Symphony personnel. - ¢ © DR. SEVITZKY’S ‘program for tonight and tomorrow afternoon already has nounced here. Mr. Bloch will be heard in Bach's F minor plano concerto and Albert Roussel's goncerto in C. ™ Next week-end's program will be almost entirely French music, with the orchestra accompanying Mr. Singher in arias and songs by Rameau, Duparc, Berlioz and Ravel. Orchestral numbers will include Bizet's Symphony No. 1, Charles T. Griffes’ “The White - Peacock” .and Ravel's second * Daphny and Chloe” suite, “*
THE SIMFONIETTA’s program Wednesday, co-sponsored by the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs and Local 3, American Federation of Musiclans, should be an excellent demonstration of & small orchestra's possibilities, Soloist will be Mary Spalding, harpist of the Symphony, who. will be heard in Plerne’'s “Im« promptu-Cgprice” and Carlos Salzedo's * ‘Song In the Night.” Mr. Zawisza, who, as the Symphony's concertmaster, needs no introduction, will direct the “Marriage of Figaro”.
the “Musette et Tambourin” of Rameau, two Jamaican numbers by Benjamin and the “Morning,” “Anitra’s‘Dance,” ‘‘Solvejg’s Bong” and “In the Hall ‘of the Mountain King” from .Grieg's Peer sin suite,
* Esty wire
“LAUGH
BAGLIACCI" |
Loyal Stage Followers Here Wait . Memory Aids
Janis’ Film Career
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1 (UP)—, Jon w we put a question to a
irl with -a pert, lourvy’ provocative figure, a langu-| [orous amile, {and
preity face, a!
a charming ‘voice some talent.
How did you get ahead in ple-|
[tures? [TT took a course tm mem training’ The lull in the joint will continue through next week. It will be broken by the |ing able to remember peoplg's| {names is my biggest asset.”
THAT asset
vi "gald-Tanis Paige. “Bes
topk an nvest-|
ment of $50 for the course. Now|
in-
ifallible accuracy any producer,|
| director, umnist.
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lazy-minded,”
agent
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or newspaper] There are .lots of good- -100k-| women, but most of them are] says Miss Paige.|
“They can't remember a person's!
name 10
minutes after they've,
met him.” | | Miss Paige, who makes a point]
{of £LVe firs
it, can remember names of rybody she’s met from her t Warners’ picture, “Holly-
(wood Canteen,” in 1944, to her
latest, been an- ye.
“One Sunday Afternoon.” » ¥ ”
MISS PAIGE took her memory|
course when she was working as
a Wa
plumber’'s clerk in Tacoma, sh., her home town.
“I discovered I could sell more] to a customer if 1 could remem-|
ber
his name than if I had to|
gsk him for it again,” she said.|
“People are so flattered when Jou {remember them,
I know I am. I'd give the purchaser a wide|
|smile.and call him by name, even|
tho
glimpse of ‘inva, s. |was practically al
ugh I ‘might not have had a That the selling!
|campaign I hot to put on.”
LATER, Miss Paige came to
Hollywood.
{they | me
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She helped out at| ~Hollywood Canteen and re-| all the names of the! That | Miss Paige the sweetheart of ap-| tely 29 submarines, nine
infantry battalions and one
cavalry unit,
, 18 flight squadrons]
= Circle” “RACE STREET"
“Indiana Roof CLYDE TRASK
Loew's
“THE MAN FROM COLORADO"
Wide Variety of Films At First-Run Houses
‘Comedy, Western, Gang Pictures Booked; Esquire Double Bill Includes ‘Pagliacci’ Story
FIRST-RUN downtown
theaters will open next week
| with the widest variety of films available for some time. Starting. Wednesday will be: Happy” (Indiana) and “Sealed Verdict” (Lyric). Theater will open with “Race Street” on Thursday and
“You Gotta Stay Circle
Loew's will show “The Man From Colorado” starting
Friday. Esquire Theater will show a double bill starting Friday, “Laugh Pagliaccl” (Italian) and “The Girl of the Canal” (British). The film presents the historic facts concerning Leoncavallo’'s opera “Pagliacci,” and portions of thé opera itself Gigi singing the tragic Canlo. Valli, Italian actress of recent American fame, plays a lead in the historical story. » ~ . GLENN FORD takes the part of a reerk Civil War veteran in “The Man From Colorado,” post-Civil War film with a western setting. Developing a mad blood lust, through a series of atrocities he aliénates himself from his best friend (Wil liam Holden) and eventually
his wife (Ellen Drew) before he |
finally brings about his own de-
| struction. On the same bill at
Loew's, “Blondie's Secret.”
“ » ~ “YOU GOTTA Stay Happy” is a romantic comedy concerns ing An air freight pilot (James Stewart), a romantically ine clined heiress (Joan Fontaine) and Stewart's sidekick (Eddie Albert). Joan escapes {ron Wer unwanted husband on her wedding . night and flies away with Stewart, Albert, a chimpanzee, a corpse and other Items. Aften* a cross-country flight, Joan and Stewart find themselves In love and make ‘arrangements to get fiiarried
Joan's
first |
with Benlamino |
husband, put “out” about the strange turn of
| events on. his wedding night,
quickly consents to an annul- | ment. Just when Stewart believes things are beginning to straighten out for him, he
finds that he is- bankrupt. Joan
comes to his rescue and against |
| his wishes buys out the con- | trolling Interest of his air line.
a woman, but when she his a new four-engined addition to the air line brought before him, he weakens for Jove of her and the plane, ” ~ » “RACE STREET” stars George Raft as a reputable retired bookie. William Bendix, a police officer, is Raft's best | friend. Together they thwart the plans of an eastern “protection” -racket gang while Raft falls In love with the gang's comely #py, Marilyn Maxwell, | Justice reigns in the end st the expense of Raft's life,
» » » AT THE LYRIC, “Sealed Verdict” takes the audience behind the scents of the warcrimes trials In Europe. Ray Milland is the American prosecutor who becomes dubious of the guilt of a German for whom he has demanded the death | penalty. Milland's sweetheart, Florence Marly, is the only one who will come forward to tes‘tify in behalf of the German. Milland’'s inner conflict to see | that justice is carried out becomes’ an open struggle with. |f
the many social forces in Gers.
many today. On the same bill, “The End of the River.” /
Stewart refuses to be owned by |
"cs ofs to current and coming local entertainment will - include; in-a generally left fo right direction: Joan Fontaine, Eddie _ Albert and James Stewart in "You Gotta Say Happy" (Indiana, Wednesday); William Bendix, George Raft and Marilyn Maxwell in “Race Street" (Circle, Thursdeyk two of the q -actors-in the. ltalian operatic film "La h, Pagliacci,” which -also features the singing of Beniamino Gigli (Esquire, Friday yf; Civde Trask, bandleader ‘week.ending at the Indiana Roof; Ray Milland and Florence . Marly in “Sealed Verdict" (Lyric, Wednesday) and Glenn Ford and Ellen Drow in ™ in "The Man From Colorado” (Loew's, Friday).
Orson Scotches ‘Macbeth’
| By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1--Orson Welles’. “Macbeth” is going out of release for a redubbing job, The new sound track will be minus the thick Seotch brogue laid on by Orson: . .. Katharine Hepburn and her new M-G-M boss, Dore Schary, are talking about her filmi future, She'd like to | return to Broadway but Dore hds other ideas. ~ » » Producer Lester Cowan will test Page Cavanaugh, lifelong ] friend of the late Ernie Pyle, | for his film based on the ecol- | umnist's life. What's wrong with “Burgess Meredith, who
{his NBC audience. . . . Joan Craw{ford's next after * “Miss O’Brien” at’ Columbia will be a Warner musical, the first tunefilm she's {made since “Dancing Daughters.” » A v NOW- IT can be told: Enters prise studio was so anxious to get James Mason for “Caught,” his played Pyle before? |first American movie, that boss yo 8. Charlie Einfeld agreed to a clause SUSAN HAYWARD and hus- in the contract giving Mason final band Jess Barker went on loca-| approval of every take. It's a tion recently and were unable to| tribute to director Max Opuls that find a nurse or baby sitter for James said “let's forget that their : 4-year-old twin sons, Tim- clause” after the first two days othy and Gregory. So they hired of shooting. - {Richard Coe, a Hollywood stunt] PO (man and husband of Susan's) CARMEN MIRANDA will do a stand-in, to take care of the boys four-month personal appearance for 10 days. [todr In night clubs and vaudeville The conversation between Bu- theaters starting in January. . san and the stunt man when .she Peggy Ryan and Donald 0'Conarrived home went something like nor hope to become junior Arthur this: Murrays with a chain of dancing Susan: “How much do I owe schools. you?” ,. = » % Coe: “Well, I'm really a stunt] Note from a reader: “I hope man For jumping off 4 motor«| Hollywood doesn’t forget Barcycle, I get $50. For jumping off &! bara_Bel Geddes’ performance . tricycle, make it $5, For jumping In ‘I Kémember Mams' whem off a cliff into a river, I get $75.) they start passing out those For jumping off. the garage into a| Oscars.” . *° |dishpan-—well,”I missed the dish, “« |pan—-make §t another $5.” Ete.,) PLAYWRIGHT Eimer Rice ‘obete. ah y {fered #0 bovvnsgir J to the title FR lof the f ‘at IF YOU don't think Jack Benny Law” that RN Baulty Films changed is one.smart fellow, listen to this:|it to “Rell, Thunder, for every point Benny drops below his present ting, CBS rebate, ‘tis bating