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Cirele "THE SAXON CHARM"
Of Symphony From Southern Tour
Jane Wyman Gets Out of Funny Rut |
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 (UP)—| Jane Wyman, who spent years in! and out of the movies as a]
Murat ~. SYMPHONY
Olivier's Hamlet Tops Films Opening Here
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Loew's “THE KISSING BANDIT"
| Current and coming sons dp Rosalyn Patton and Jack. Hunter, vocalists the Elliott
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| rence orchestra, at the Indiana_Roof Somorrow. for the
| Matinee at 3 p. m. and | “and Clare Alden in "Show and 16; Richard Denning and
| (Lyric, Wednasday) yoy
lar evening dancing; Sammy
atthe ‘Muret Theater in "Unknown and Franchot
| in “Every Girl Married" indiana, Wednesday), Felix “Aylmer and Laurence Olivier in "Hamlet" (Keith's, W Wednesday), - Disney animations, Bacchus and d Jscchus in “Fantasia” (Esquire, - Friday); Robert oreo. Audrey Totter in "The Saxon Charm" {Circle Redeolf Sorkin Sorkin, pianist, guest artist with” he Indianapolis Symphom on at the Muret Thaster past Se and Sunday, af an m., respectively, and Kehr Gra Kissing Bandit” (Loew's, Friday). r
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Comes to Keith Theater Friday; All Seats Must Be Reserved
LAURENCE" OLIVIER'S screen adaptation of “Hamlet” . heads the list of film-fare coming to the downtown first-run houses. “Hamlet” will open Wednesday at. Keiti¥® Theatre. Other openings for the week are: “Every Girl Should Be Married” (Indiana, Wednesday), “The Saxon Charm” (Circle, Thursday), a double bill, ‘The Kissing Bandit” and ‘My Dear Secre- | |
Schedule of Seven Concerts in Eig ht Days Opens Tomorrow
With Jordan Conservatory’s Benefit Program in Murat By HENRY BUTLER : FABIEN SEVITZKY and the Symphony, back in town ‘after. their southern tour, have a busy week ahead. Seven--concerts..in- eight days. will .include the special-benefit program-at 3 p. m.
chorus hoofer and blues singer, | has suddenly been acclaimed as one of the town’s top actresses. Miss Wyman may well get an| Academy award in March for her {portrayal of a deaf and dumb)
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tomorrow in the Murat, with Jordan Conservatory faculty members participating; the “Meét Your Symphony” free ' municipal concert at 8 p. m. ‘Friday in Cadle Tabernacle, and the 10th pair’ of subseription concerts next week end, with Rudolph
Serkin, pianist, as soloist. : “Dream Girl,” the Civic’s February produetion, will open next Friday. As previously announced, “Show Boat” will play three performances in the Murat Starting Tuesday, Feb, 15. : There's not much ‘point in announcing the Quartet’s program next Wedné&sday evening in World War Memorial, since only miembérs of the Ensemble Music Society can attend. The society's full roster packs that
will play a special concert for L. s Ayres’ employees, in which Joseph Saunders, first cellist, and Mary Spalding, harpist, will be soloists. Tuesday morning, the orchestra will give the fourth and fifth of its 10" public school concerts in Shortridge High School. Friday's municipal concert, outgrowth of discussions béfWeen Dr. Sevitzky and Mayor Al Feeney, will be largely popular ip nature. Next. week-end's subscription pair will have Mr. Serkin playing Beethoven's, “Emperor” con-
certo, besides a premiere of a prelude by Kil- |
{slavey in Warners’ (linda.” But before she made that | {she was No. 1 woman in a No. 2|
.|western and third lead in Cole|
Porter's life. . " n |
THE BROWN - EYED blonde (has been climbing up the Holly-| {wood ladder ever since she was| leight. She came to Hollywood, ithen-because her mother thought; (she ought to be in pictures. No-| body else thought so. She came back when she was 15:
tary” (Loew’s, Friday), and “Unknown Island” (Lyric, Wednesday).
Olivier will ‘do triple-duty -as | star; producer and “RIpECtor or | “Hamlet” as he previously did |
in “Henry V.” Phe picture, a shortened version of the play, is filmed in black and white to retain the dismal atmospheres of the play. servéd for the showing of this feature, ~ » ” STARTING Friday, Esquire Theater will
All seats are re- |
show Walt Dis- |
Drake, an impetuous girl. With | Tone always in, hot pursuit of her, she still manages to con--vince Grant. of--her great love. for him,
{| Robert Montgomery to the | screen as an egotistical stage | producer. John Payhe and his wife, Susan Hayward, become
involved with Montgomery |
| “when they ask his help with a i play. Audrey Totter member of the quartet
is the other influ-
“The Baxon Charm” brings | |
‘Good Picfures Come High
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 — Maybe you've wondered why some
[of your neighborhood theaters play so many films you've never heard of in preference to the big-budget flickers. The answer is | high rentals which the small houses can't afford.
And ‘when you consider that neighberhood houses make up 85
rper-cent-of the nation's theaters, you have the explanation of
{so many people are screaming! ood’s . poor product. Just can’t
about Hollyw
The small houses
‘unknown kids who couldn’t afe {ford high-priced material. They
afford to. rent the good pictures, Wrote the act, auditioned for the
NIGIVIET] little sepulcher in the heart of the vast lime- ney's “Fantasia.” The film-an | " a stone pyramid, and the somewhat GI regula- | pdtrick and Richard Strauss’ tone poem “Don land broke down Hollywood doors| artist's animated tn enced by the domingering Mont- | Ae Kids, financed the costumes, ore "Amon, tions forbid selling tickets at the door. Quixote. oo {for four years. All she got. were! tions of eight great master- gone Yebel against the tyrant | Sign on the bicycle Bill Hol- chestrations and choreography 1 Mixed type | * 0 jobs as a hoofer. works of music, features the | and manage to salvage. their | den rides around the Para- land then gave the kids 50 per 2 Against OTHER coming musical events needing men- How fo Crash Hollywood Miss Wyman got her first no-| music of the Philadelphia Or- | marriage in spite of Montgom- | mount lot: “Bill Holden—Low T Now they're all 3 Camera's eye tion here are the Sigmund Romberg program at ticeable Tole in 1936. Nobody| (hestra under the ‘direction of | ery. “| Budget Westerns. ” {up Sher necks {h that green Poker stake the Murat Feb. 25, in which Victoria Sherry, | [n ‘10 Tough Lessons’ recognized this Academy Award| Leopold Stokowski. Deems Tay- PE i paper Uncle Sam prints in Washone of last season's Butler Bowl “Stars Under | °. n. eit lor, music critic, acts as narra- | “UNKNOWN ISLAND,” com- | IT must séem like old times— ington. : HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 (UP)--The question |talent then, either. She.had spent| 4.’ yproughout the film. lor almost old times—to Richard «no»
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the Stars,” will be a soloist, and the two-plano recitil by Robert and Gaby Casadesus at the Murat Monday evening, Feb. 28, on the Martens Concerts series. Tomorrow's Symphony concert, for the benefit of Jordan Conservatory’'s scholarship fund, will present.as soloists: Dorothy Munger, pianist, in the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second piano concerto; Eugene Kilinski, violinist, in the Introduction .and Rondo Capriecioso of, Saint-Saens, and Julius. Huehn, bass-baritone, in arias from Mozart's “Marriage of Figaro” and Verdi's “Otello.” Jordan faculty composers whose works will be played by Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra are: Norman Phelps, with a ‘scherzo and finale from a complete symphony; Beldon nard, with “Northern Lights” a string-orchestra composition, and William Pelz, with a fantasy on Stephen Foster themes. | " *'® | ALSO on tomorrow's program will be the Jordan Chorale, with Dr. Sunderman, director of Jordan, conducting, in eight briet unaccompanied numbers. i Dr. ‘and the Syimalion talso - will be heard in Glinka's "Russian and Ludmilla” overturd and the last moveme it of Tchaikovy's Fifth symphony. Monday, Mussizg Sevan, and the orchestra
of why is a movie star is still bafiling Hollywood. ~= Movie and theatrical hopefuls-have asked for years why one aspirant gets a break over another with equal talent, looks and personality. Sometimes it's luck; sometimes it's smartness. Audrey Totter, who co-stars’ with Ray Milland in Paramount's “Strange Temptation,” Qwes her success to story telling.
“Things were tough when I'tried to crash’
show business,” she sald. “Most actors couldn't even get to see a casting director of producer. I decided I had to be different.”
r . r MISS TOTTER knew most folk like to listen to funny stories, jokes, anecdotes. Some are even funnier in dialect. So Audrey mastered several dialects, built herself a re toire of tall tales and began to leave a trail of laughs around Chicago and New York radio advertising agencies. “Even when there was no. work, secretaries would send Audrey in because the ‘producers | wanted to hear the latest gag,” she said, “I got In when better actors couldn't get past
the receptionist. And when parts came up, I |
often was around to get them.” When
the last 12 years feeding gags to |Jack Carson and losing the hero {to Ann Sheridan in such assem-ibly-line items as “Smart Blonde,” |“You're in the Army Now,” | (Make Your Own. Bed,” “The| Doughgirls,” “Footlight = Berehade,” etc. v \ » ». . THE LADY mind. “It was [brought me luck in motion pietures,” she said. “Nobody likes to {laugh more than I. ‘T don’t want
says she didn't]
¢ [to be a big dramatic actress for
| keeps.” | ‘She says her latest picture, “A|
Kiss in the Dark,” is about as big|
a contrast to “Johnny Belinda” |
as she can imagine. “I'm sure people expected me |to take another seridus role,- but {I don't want them to know what! to expect’ she said. “It's not good to have people think, ‘Oh,
.|Jane Wyman's in the picture, rn
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The twin-bill at Loew's brings Frank Sinatra to the screen as a bashful bandit, “The Kissing Bandit” concerns Sinatra's attempts to live up to his bandit-father’'s reputation as a great lover, posite Kathryn Grayson for
| this technicolor musical of the
Old Southwest The other half of the proam, “My Dear Secretary,” finds Kirk Douglas and Laralne Day alternately playing secretary to each other. With Keenan Wynn and Helen Walker thrown laughs, the film is a farce on boss- Sotretary arrangements. ~ » | CARY GRANT finds his advice. “Every Girl Should Be | Married,” a little
he i5 the one for her. Franchot
Tone and Diana Lynn are also
featured In this comedy coming | to the Indiana.. With his statement advising universal wedlock for women, Grant provokes the love of Miss
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He Is cast op- |
in for additional
troublesome } | when’ Betsy Drake décides that
ing to the Lyric, brings to the screen the prehistoric monsters that roamed the earth a few million years ago. A party of men and a woman set out to in- | vestigate an uncharted island off the coast of Singapore. Rumors that the island fs inhabited by prehistoric beasts are verified after the group undergoes a series of gruesome encounters with the animals. On the same bill, “The Judge.”
Maxie to Go
‘Down Under’
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 | (UP) — Blapsie Maxie Rosen- { bloom. said today. he is going into the night club business in Australis. “I love the place and they like our: American stuff,” said the former world light heavyweight champion. “I'm° going to commute between California and Australia just like you visit your next-door neighbor.”
|Ney. He's living at the Bel-Afr | Hotel, directly across the street.
ALL WRESTLERS are actors Iso it was almost inevitable that
{from the home he and Greer Gar-one of them would get a Screen
ine once shared. .
is one of those actors who likes good living
. Kirk Douglas| Actors’ Guild
card and make a in Hollywood. - The
Ito work. A few idle days between!fellow is Mike Mazurki, who
| pictures and he gets nervous, | As’ he sees it: isn’t working, he’s a bum.”
may wind up & princess.)
» » ~ Has anyone stopped to figure that the current Sam Goldwyn. Eric Johnston feud comes while Goldwyn Is filming “Roseanna MoCoy,” story of the famous Hatfleld-McCoy feud?
“When an actor (But when an actress lsn’t working, she
|clieked with Dick Powell in “Mur. der, My Sweet” and has been working” before the cameras ever since. | Now he's in “Come to the Stable,” with Loretta Young. But Mike still looks with dis dain upon Hollywood's brand of acting. Even an Oscar doesn't impress him. . “Real acting,” he whispered behind Loretta’s back, “is something you just don’t find In
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