Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1949 — Page 34

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3 «By HENRY BUTLER Sir Laurence Olivier’s screen version of “Hamlet, ”

Hven. Marie, Evans’ “Gr version, though it frees the play from the curse of the schoolroom, still is too much |-

at Keith’ 8, is the least stuffy

could come out of retirement in ' Shangri - La, undoubtedly would “be the first to approve what Sir For

sti win 3 Sustide or. fetch your Shakespeare out of the kind of thing and earning deep-freeze and reread “Hamlet.” nS deal more than the mod-~| {If you do that, you'll get more : lof a Mft from remembering the est sum that enabled him to buy|,. | the best house in his home town. *> anguage. of Stratford-on-Avon. . t sir Laurence UOT 1S dlls done with the character of Melanchcly Dane 0 | ies Night Club Prows an enormous ip Film Star Prefers

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acter and the play make more| sense than they usually do. I must confess I was appalled when the Universal-International [people told me at last Tuesday's

two and a half hours. Same deal as “Henry V"--you think you're going to get the fidgets,. Superb Throughout

But just go and see it. You’ Nn yourself carried away by the| | tremendous dramatic climaxes—| | more meaningful screaming and | carrying on.than you'd think pos-| {sible in Shakespeare, The entire thing is absolutely| superb, as you've read elsewhere. There's no room here for indi-| vidual credits. All I can say is that the cast is simply a knock-| uliout. So are the sets and the| uli ondertully appropriate music by | | William Walton. | It wouldn't be a bad idea, be- | | fore you go to see fit, if you|

Quieter OF Hours HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 (UP)— Doris Day, ex-night club singer, claims to be Hollywood's No. 1 anti-night clubber. She doesn’t own a single evening gown. And you can't get her to put a toe into a supper club, : That indicates you can get fed on even the most expensive things, Miss Day said.

‘ “I spent almost every night for _ Most of the five-ton truckloads eight years in evening gowns, in < of essays have in- night clubs,” Miss Day said. “1 Hamlet's Duty, with a capital|either a supper gown or a supper But as Sir Laurence de-|club.” . velops the play—and I think this| Miss Day was a singer with _ 1s a stroke of genius—it looks asi name bands before she got a if Shakespeare, writing In the movie test and was signed to a turbulent and murderous EliZa-\ contract by Warner Bros. di- . bethan era, might have anticl-|rector, Michael Curtiz. the Quakers in belleving| ufiss Day's allergy to night Sojves Ro probietns at 1 clubs brings up the question of 38300 dvitasd, ton telll-| wnat she does do In her spare Je. e knows hely,., She plays gin rummy, reads tribal tradition . 4 nooks and takes care of her|t but he uses every excuse, .... son. a. untill ening gowns, she wears red 3a, She Sova ENE, 2 Dresses Toi Sires

Wouldn't Make Deal Hamlet probably is the best-in

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INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY Fabien Sevitzky, Conductor

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Lioyd . Sunderman, Director

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to] xplathed logically.

as a prelude to heaven on earth.

- formed, most sophisticated, most of all Shakespeare's characters, He's the kind of guy who died by the thousands in Nazi camps. He could have made a deal with Uncle 7 Claudius and the mobsters, but he didn’t.

Anyway, that's the Impression] you get from Sir Laurence’s pro-

It's often been necessary for Miss Day to wear an evening

She wears three in Warners’ comedy

ling.” “When movies call for me dress up, I dress up,” Miss Day “That's part| of my work. “I put ohh an evening gown the way I'd put on any other kind of| costume and take it off when the| job is done “But 1 don't believe in dressing |

Gorgeous lace and satin crea-

road with bands, she figures she

as most women get in 80 years.

tailored slacks.

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gown on the screen, movies being, and he lush things they are.

of life in Hollywood, “It's a Great

tions have lost their appeal for Miss Day. In eight years on the

had four times as many of them When Miss Day goes on a

spending spree now, she doesn't buy an evening gown. She buys

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Sir Laurence Olivier, stupendous screen

tragedy opening next Vondnondes hah

here holds up his sword, ¢ross-fashion, as a shield . ainst evil when he sees his father's ghost. The the murder scene as the ghost described it. The sight of one of killing him in revenge, but then reflects that a ghost tells Hamlet he was murdered by Claudius, the yers pretending to pour poison into the ear of the wi better time fo take ance would be when his own brother, who since has seized the throne ing disturbs Claudius, who gets erical at the end of the Claudius is doing sinful. Hamlet reof Denmark and married Hamlet's. mother, ploy calling for lights and throwing court into. an uproar. tires to await a more opportune moment for his Hamlet is naw certain that Claudius is guilty. revenge.

Gertrude.

Confronting his mother with the story of the murder, Hamlet learns she had no knowledge of it. In one of the film's-most dramatic scenes, Hamlet tells his mother to shun Claudius. Seeing one of the tapestries in Gertrude’s room move, Hamlet plunges his sword through it, thinkin Claudius is hidden there. But the victim is meddlesome Polonius, father of Hamlet's beloved

Ophelia.

Barrymore Walk

._ HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 (UP) — Lionel Barrymore says follow his doctor's diet enabled him to get out of his wheel chair for the first time in 10 years.

“My doctor told me that if I|} followed orders I could get around

with only the help. of crutches,” Barrymore said. can.”

Shrough all his scenes in 20th Cen-

ury Fox's “Down to the Sea in| | And instead .of| Ships,” using only crutches, Two

months after that, he could walk with only the help of a cane. Barrymore suffers; not from arthritis, but from rheumatism complicated by a fractured hip which he suffered in 1937 an which never mended properly.

(ed, he thinks, from his gnarled, {crippled hand. He broke it pound{in ng on a na table,

Catalogs Stage NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UP)— | The new release of ‘the March of | Time is entitled “On Stage.” a film that shows what makes the |legitnmate theater go around. The play “Anne of the Thousand Days” is used as the primary {example of how a show and its people function, but there are shots of many other Broadway] people and activities.

Stories that he has arthritis start=}

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Four months after he started| § the diet, Barrymore could move| |

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Civic Theater Director .Names Dream Girl' Cast

Margaret Roberts will portray Georgina Allerton in the Civic | Theater's February production, "Dream Girl," opening Friday for a nine-day run.

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‘insane. Here Horatio Gertrude (Eileen

hough fiamiet § is convinced his father's ghost fold ‘the truth : and he must take vengeance, he decides fo try a kind of "lie- detector” test on his uncle, King Claudius. When a ing players visit the castle at Ekinore, Hamlet has hen re-enact

Distraught by her father's death and the harsh treatment Hamlet has given her since she unwittingly aided Polonius and Claudius i in a plot against Hamlet, Ophelia (Jean Simmons) goes (Naive Wooland), Hamlet's best friend, erlie) sadly look at the disheveled girl, who is babbling ‘incoherently and singing bits of songs shortly before she falls into a stream and is drowned. Ophelia's brother, Laertes, former friend of Hamlet, determines to avenge his father

Jack L. Hatfield, “Civic Theater

director, has announced the cast -for

“Dream Girl,” the theater's production to be presented Feb,

Fitzgerald, Willlam H. Cook, Mah-|

Elaine Bloom, Lloyd Bernard Bloom, Aldo Bertarelli, Ross Cope-

land and Ralph Saunders. gc le slightest suggestion may send off

into the realms of unreality. A-single..

=IDAEIngwhich shows the actual episodes]

of her. existence, several successive incidents are amusingly dramatized.

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|hearsing for the Theatre Guild

The cast of the two-act comedy | includes Margaret Roberts, Alma!

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: The Eimer Rice play tells the| story of Georgina : . charming but dreamy, over imaginative young woman whom the

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After his outburst, Claudius suffers a reaction. His conscience torments him for the crime he's committed, and he tries vainly to pray. Hamlet,

group of strolldiscovering his uncle at prayer, is on the point of

With the connivance of Claudius, who now wants Hamlet out of the way, Laertes (Terence Morgan) challenges Hamlet. to a “friendly” fencing bout in which Laertes uses a pointed and -poisoned rapier instead of -the required blunted. foil. In the ensuing climax of the play, Gertrude drinks poison intended for Hamlet, both Hamlet and Laertes are killed by the same poisoned sword, and Hamlet fi inally ills Claudius.

Mark Anniversary NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UP)— |Of Hebrew Opera

Lunt, Fontanne Return To Work After Rest

Ly : Sod SE SUNDAY, FEB. 6 1949 To Keith Screen This Week

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“The Quiet One’ _ Originated as 16 mm. Documentary .

By JACK GAVER United Press Staff Correspondent ‘NEWYORK, Feb. .5—A movie

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one of the most talked-of films. in New York. “The Quiet One” \s its title and it originated as a 16 mm, documentary. The picisre is the first effort,

and William Levitt. They are solely responsible for the film from story idea to complete product. The story briefly is how an unfoved, unwanted child becomes & . delinquent, and how, through the ° proper care, he can be set back - on the road to becoming a useful citizen. Writes Commentary When the shooting had been | completed, the film was run off for friends of the producers. - Among them was James Agee, {prominent film critic, who asked

After he did so, the film was shown at the Museum of Modern Art with a music track. The commentary was read at that time.. Iris Barry, film curator at the museum, was so enthusiastic that she suggested the picture be sent to the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland last July. There were 130 films from 24 countries shown at the festival. “The Quiet One.” completely unheralded, attracted the most attention. . Convinces Producers That convinced the producers that they had a commercial property and there was no troyble arranging distribution. The film’s initial showing is at the Little Carnegie Theater here. The cast is only partly profes|sional. The boy is played by a youth chosen from a group in Harlem. He:is not a professional and the producers identify him only as Donald. He gives a remarkable performance. Much of the film was madé at Esopus, N. ¥., at the Wiltwyck mii | School for Boys where the most scientific methods based on the findings of modern psychiatry are used in rehabilitation. No sets were used ifn any

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne] NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UP)— “Feturned ~to—work frem a The 25th anniversary of the comlong Be " hid home in nocition of the Hebrew opera The 8 pats acting team ‘is re- “Hechalutz” (the Pioneers of Is-| rael) by Jacob Weinberg will be “ ” observed in a performance at’ By eas. My Love, 8 trom Carnegie Hall on Feb. 19. the French original of Marcel] Ihe opera will be given in con-;

lit will tour other American]

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5 (UP)— Australian - born Actress Ann former | Broadway Producer Edmund Anlast night at the First Methodist Church.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UP)—| Nelson Eddy, baritone, is plan-| ning an extensive concert tour! {from Mar. 1 through Apr. 30, {covering cities from coast to! coast, In May, Mr. Eddy will return to California to start work ion a Technicolor film with Jeaninette- MacDonald. Its working title tr “Embassy -for-Brasil” i

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