Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1949 — Page 9
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Symphony Is Very Much in News With Fund Drive Opening Monday
. Heifetz Here This Week End, Guest Conductor MacMillan Due Next; Casadesus in Recital Monday Night, Olga Coelho in Program Friday By HENRY BUTLER THE SYMPHONY again is important in entertainment news this week. With the season’s most celebrated soloist, Jascha Heifetz, in conterts: tonight and tomorrow afternoon, the orchestra will open its financial campaign Monday and greet Sir Ernst MacMillan as guest conductor next week end. Monday night's Murat recital by Robert and Gaby Casadesus for the Martens Concert series again deserves mention here. ’
So doed the. program by Olga Coelho, Brazilian soprano-guitarist, for the Matfnee Musicale at 2 p. m. next Friday in Ayres’ auditorium. fi
And here’s a reminder of stage events coming to the Murat. That perennial wizard Blackstone, the magician, will open a four day engagement Monday, Mar. A “High Button Shoes,” musical comedy starring Eddie Foy Jr. will commence its four-day run Monday, Mar. 14. Previously announced, the Symphony's program for tonight and tomorrow afternoon has been slightly changed. Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra will substitute the Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s “Midsummer Night's Dream” music for Elie. Slegmeister’s “Prairie Legend.” Mr. Helfetz will be heard in: Mozart's Conetrto No. 7 in D and the Prokofieff G minor
concerto. . . » MAKING his second guest-conducting apce here next week end, Sir Ernest MacMillan, of the Toronto Symphony, will conduct the orchestra in Beethoven's “Eroica,” two. of Sir Ernest's own symphonic sketches, “Mars, Venus and Jupiter” from Gustav Holst's “The Planets” and “An English-Rhapsody” by Fred- : further comment on Delius belongs in program notes. But after a glance into the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, I can't resist passing on some info about the late (1863-1934). is ? of all, he was probably the only British
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» ” ” SECOND, he's doubtless one of the few com- | posers in history who've been shot at during a | performance. Delius, in writing incidental music | for a Norwegian play, parodied the national anthem. At the Oslo premiere, which Delius conducted, somebody opened fire from the audience. Chief injury was to Delius’ reputation in Scandinavia. In Monday's recital, Mr. and Mrs. Casadesus will be heard in Mozart's ID major Sonato for | two planos and the Saint-Saens V fons on a Theme by Beethoven. Ma. Casade: alone will play Chopin's four Ballades, In commemora- | tion of the centenary of the composer's death, and Schumann's “Forest Scenes.” Miss Coelho’s Matinee Musicale Friday will Include two especially
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» » . THE SYMPHONY'S board of directors have planned the “Buy a Share in Your Symphony's Future” campaign to take care of next year's needs. They say the orchestra will be gle to finish this season in good financial conllition. Like nearly all other major orchestras in the country, the Symphony has been hit by rising costs and diminishing revenue, What's needed here is wider popular support, plus the economy . measures alr: promised | for the Bymphony's "1940-50 season. With a financial backlog collected ‘in- advance, the orchestra will be much betfer able to plan its activities, vy : fa 4 + oy
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26 (UP) —A-newcomer to movieland, La Rita Corey, has thrown the star-studded knitting brigade for a loss. ’ Unlike the rest of them, Miss Corey knits inside out. Dozens of stars and starlets Kil ‘time on “the set between takes by knitting.
‘Miss Corey joined the knitters |
after Hal Eugene Roach, son of the “Our Gang” producer, spiéd her behind the bars of a teller’s cage in the California Bank and put her in his television pictures. ” » ” THE knitting of the 20-year-old starlet, daughter of an Idaho Falls, I1da., rancher and once labeled Miss Why Idaho Potatoes Have Such Big Eyes, caused such a flurry on the set she practically held up production. Miss Corey's socks. obviously were wrong-side out, but none of. the other knitters figure out why. Neither could Miss Sue Clark, summoned on behalf of the Needlecraft Bureau. “I believe I start out backwird,” Miss Carey volunteered. “Or maybe my trouble is that I'm ambidextrous.” : Director Mal St. Clair put his analytical mind to ‘the problem. “It's very simple,” he decided. “Miss Corey gets inside the sock to knit it. A perfect case of pictorial illusion.” . ” r
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brown eyes and said she was pretty sure she did not climb inside her sock when knitting. “TI don't see what everybody's getting so. excited about,” she ded. “If it's inside out when I knit, all'T have t& do is turn it ‘outside in when I'm finished. How. can you tell difference?”
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Piano-Playing Bandsman Arrives Thursday for Circle Engagement * FRANKIE CARLE'S personal appearance-at the | Circle Theater will head this week's openings at the | downtown first-run thedters. “Carle and his orchestra
will arrive Thursday. Other openings will be:
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(Indiana, Wednesday), “Let's Live a Little” {Lyric,
Wednesday) and “The Sun Comes Up” (Loew's, Fri-™ day). Esquire Theater will. show a | bill starting Friday, | “Storm in a Teacup” (English) and “Russian Ballerina” (Russian). “Teacup” stars Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh in a comedy set in a Scottish village. Harrison, a reporter, stirs up more trouble than he can handle when he editorially con.
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tra’ will appear on the Circle stage for one; week starting Thursday, Thére will be two specialty acts accompanying the band. On “Alaska Patrol.” » » ” “WAKE OF THE RED WITCH” stars John Wayne and Gail Russell. It is the tale of man’s lust and greed for the riches found among the South Sea islands. Luther Adler and Wayne set out to prove how far a man will go for wealth, They both meet tragic results, . Gig Young and Adele Mara add another love interest to the film. Wayne and Adler, both with the same. lust for wealth, attempt to steal a fortune in
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pearls from South Sea natives. Wayne succeeds in getting the pearls but loses Gail Rpssell to Adler. Miss Russell dies, Years later, Wayne deliberately sinks a ship. sg that he can later recover its cargo of gold. His plan is almost carried through, but Adler iterferes and Wayne is killed.
» » » HEDY LAMARR and Robert Cummings co-star in <“Let’s Live a Little,” coming to the Lyric. Hedy is a neuro-psychi-
atrist and Cummings a slightly | screwy advertising executive, |
Their paths cross, and the rest is just one big comedy.
Before the two stars can both | love |
pettle down to a real affair, they must each do away
with their former flances. After | several hundred feet of hi-jinks |
they manage te get together.
On the same program, “Parole, | “Ine
“The Sun Comes Up”. is still on the “coming” list at Loew's.
Jeanette MacDonald, Lioyd |
Nolan, Claude Jarman Jr. and Lassie star in this technicolor
drama set in the Caroliria hills, |
Miss MacDonald goes fo the hills, giving up her career as a concert singer, after the tragle deaths of her hushfipd and son.
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Coming events on the local amusement scene will be: Robert Cummings and Hedy Lamarr in "Let's Live a or Wednesday), Jack Whiting and Audrey Meadows in "High Buh | ton Shoes,” on the Murat stage Mar. 14 h 17; Claude Jare | man Jr. and Jeanette MacDonald in. "The Sun Comes Up" (Loew's, | Friday), Sir Ernest MacMillan, maestro of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, guest or with. the Indi _in subscription concerts at 8:30 and 3 p. m. next Saturday and Sunday at the Murat; Lois Umholts, vocalist with Freddie Shaffer's | “Sweethearts” band at the Indiana Roof next Saturday and Sun. | day; Frankie Carle and his orchestra on the Circle stage starti Thursday; Ursula Jeans and Vivien Leigh in "Storm in a Teacup” | “(Esquire, Friday), John Wayne, Gail Russell and Luther Adler -in “Wake of the Red Witch" (Indiana, Wednesday) and Gaby and | Robert Casadesus in a two-piano Martens Concerts series program | at 8:30 p. m. Monday at the Murat,
‘Costly Epics Laying Eqg
By Erskine Johnson :
/ HOLLYWOOD, Féb. 26—Hollywood got a shock from a movie survey just released by the- Allied States Association of Exhibitors, representing small town and small neighborhood theaters in 32 states, . The shock was that it's high-priced epics are laying eggs. . The worst grossers in the small towns and small neighborhoods for 1948 were: a— i “Captain From Castile” “Gentleman's Agreerivent,” “Th | Big Clock,” “Miracle of the Bells,” “The Pirate,” “Down to Earth” “Lady in Ermine” “Treasure of Slerra Madre,” | “Time of Your Life,” “Arch of
exhibitors: “Get back to making family themes, animal and outdoor pictures, action and adventure, including westerns, musical comedies and biographies.” ~ » . HOLLYWOOD'S ECON ONY WAVE co rovide mos | Triumph,” “Naked City” and WaYE SouLintics 0 Prve hy Emperor Waltz. Milton Hill told this one: Seems The most profitable films In an actress who is beginning to the same areas were: feel the pinch is having chinchilla “puller Brush Man,” “Green |seat covers made for her converGrass of Wyoming,” “My Wild |tible—to save wear on the mink Irish Rose,” “Easter Parade,” |upholstery. | “Best Years of Our Lives,” , nu il “Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay,” | MORE PROOF that modest “Wisttul Widow of Wagon [budget movies can make money. Gap” “Road to Rio” “Bride |The Search” cost $250,000, It Goes Wild,” “Sitting Prejty,” will gross over a million and a “Green Dolphin Street” and [half .'. . It looks like Jennifer “Southern Yankee.” Jones for “Pinky” at Fox. - | . =» » . =» THE EXHIBITORS complained, PREDICTION: Van Johnson's |tures for sophisticated Broadway in “Mother instead of for neighborhood and man” will ‘put him back small-town theaters. Yetiagin bobby-soxgra’ hit
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