Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1949 — Page 36

Marion Tells Touching Tale”

: Elder Hutton Pulls Off Sister Act ip Interview

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sitting in Lindy's and everybody was looking my way. No wonder. I was with Marion Hutton. ~ Marion had brought along some snapshots of herself ! and sister Betty taken more than 20 years ago in their] backyard in Battle Creek, Mich. : a

They were poor then. | i" mr You could see, in the pic- enough to eat steak,” Marion told tures, their clothesline, and. While their mother was work-| their father's overalls on it. ing In an auto factory in Detroit, With an apology, I said, “May- gu holding small . be you won't want to talk about tacks in her, it—but Betty told me once that & mouth and stick-| she never ate steak till she was "i ing the tacks in-| 16. : | to auto uphol-| “That's true,” Marion sald. sety Bhat pi It had been a touching story. Daa Til MarTheir father, Jack Thornburg, an § jon was working engineer on the Grand Trunk #H as a soda jerk to! R. R. in Michigan, had simply § help keep Betty left them and their mother one in high school. spring day in the early "20s and 1 “Mothertoo never returned. Around Thanks-| me out of h giving that year, when Marion) Betty school when 1 was 3% and Betty a little less was a junior at Cass Tech so my than 2, their mother got a card sister could.go on for a while”, from him, postmarked Tiajuana. Marion said. 1 “How are you?” he said, |" As-Marion unfolded the story, “8 Ishe kept repeating “my sister and THAT WAS all they heard 1.” It was never “Betty,” but from him , , . in more than 20 alwals the “my sister and I" of

“And did you ever clear up the mystery?” I asked Marion. “8S ome what, but it only added more mystery,”

“The first week I worked, my sister and I took the $12.50 I made and went to the Colonial Department Store. | “If you had a job you could buy up to $50 worth of stuff and pay for-it gt 50 cents a week: |

she said. “We bought our mother a $35 “Not long toaster! Just shows how rich 1 ago," Marion felt with $12.50 in my pocket. And continued then we bought oureselves two!

Tevening gowns we couldn't resist.

NEW YORK; Mar. 5==One- noontime recently; I-was:

Acclaimed as a modern movie classic, "Day of Wrath,” a Danish release, will come to the Esquire Theater Friday. The film concerns itself with the moral conflict of an elderly pastor's: latest suspect. The old woman has pleaded with

young wife. It is set in |7th-century Denmark, in an atmosphere of witch hunting and burning of

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in Holly talking about Marion our future, when Betty's secretary phoned that we had inherited

$250 each from a granduncle In!

North Platte, Neb.” Ch The granduncle had left the money to thelr father, but the ~ granduncle’s estate hadn't been

“My sister's evening gown had] black straps and rhinestones on| the belt, It sparkled like crazy. When we got home with those gowns, our mother hit the ceiling. | “Well . . . we went into the tear| routine and she let us keap them. “The first time we ‘wore them it was to the A¥cadid Ballroom.

money wens to fheuk. there—but WE did. “here curious FFF Bg hs stale had found | wypyURALLY, we took the 5 ago in California; mot streetcar—and walked the rest of

Tnto the terror and bewilderment of the young wife's life comes a new feeling of love for the pastor's young son. With this : wowiound love, she has a feeling of power, a suspicion that she, able to find their father so the Nobody ever wore evening gowns foo, may be a witch like her mother or the pitiful old woman who was burned before her eyes. She rebels against the somber life | that surrounds her.

far from his already mation. [the Way. And it started to ran. N, Y. City Opera Igelman Pupil

ally known daughters. We were lifting our gowns up to|

“He must have had some rea- Keep them from getting wet. aut Adds to Program

son for not contacting us” Mar. We sure felt like the belles of the fon said. “We'll probably never ball” | know what it was.”

" .» both were in New Yark—Marion Gian-Carlp Menott's “The Me“I CANNOT say we were ever DY way of Atlanta, where she'd ,. —. ..

{worked briefly as a singer, Betty {by way of Vincent Lopez's band, which hired her in Detroit.

now, and was recently in the | Marx Brothers picture, “Love

| ONLY MARION had voice les-| sons. She took a couple at $50!

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Marion got into Glen Miller's) season, making three new produc- : band, Betty got into “Panama | Hattie” and went to Hollywood.| ODS to be presented. | Marion lives in Hollywood, too, |

i Happy.” B8he's on Jack Carson's) | BS radio program. | LAFAYETTE, Mar. {concerts will be given by the St.| | Louis Symphony orchestra, under ted by Jean Morel, conductor the direction of Vladimir Golschof the company’s French wing. | mann, in the Purdue University {Hall of Music at 8 p. m. Saturday Mar. 12 and 13. These programs will be part of University’s convocation

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——— a crack, and when Glen Miller «mp. Medium” will be billed joint-

heard her sing afterward, he said, |, with Menott’s “The Old Maid and Sunday, The principal roles will be sung the y Marie Powers, Evelyn Keller series for the year {was in Detroit when they were a Rrtg ins «Bg ibere ot| HE

SYMPHONY | Marion said the life in New, {York was almost as gay when! Murat Theater i b : they were getting started as it FABIEN SEVITZKY a . ; Conductor | getting started. sl | “When I came here,” Marion TODAY, 3 P. M. | said, “my sister was living here in the Victoria Hotel in a very| Guest Conductor

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Happened Last Nighi— Movie Preview: ‘Days of Wrath' Peeks Into Soul of "Witch'

The young woman fears the witch-hunting of witch. She cringes from the old lady, the pastor's the pastor to save her soul through prayer as

he had saved his wife's mother. The pastor or“ders her to kneel and pray. g Wrath).

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5—Two | the late Florenz Ziegfeld liked to “try out” his glittering Follies, {about May 1, 1950, and the wreckers will take over.

She wills that her stepson be waiting for her at the door, and he is there. She tells her husband she wishes him dead after he has begged her pardon for his lack of understanding. She drives him to death by telling him ‘his son -is her lover. The pastor dies from the shock of the

revelation,

‘Crew to Destroy Historic Theater

PITTSBURGH, Mar. 5 (UP)— |Samuel F. Nixon. It seats 2200 : { Miss Elma Igelman will present {The whine of long spiraling drills, and has one of the largest stages NEW YORK, Mar. 5 (UP)=O0f- her pupil, William Krach, tenor; in digging into the earth beneath of its type in the country, During cital at 8 p. m. next Thursday in Pittsburgh's famed Nixon Thea- nearly a half century of opera- tral YWCA. |ter, are sounding the beginning of tion, it has been visited by virWith Jane Hampson ‘at the pi-{the end for the 46-year-old play-|tually all the greats of the thehave -been added to the ,,., Mr Krach will be assisted house, the city’s only “live” stage. atrical world. | New York City Opera Company's also by a string quartet from the

repertory for its coming spring Indianapolis Symphan ra, including Mildred Lind, vioin;

The drillers are testing the rock | On June 1, y Orches-|foundation for the 30-story Alu- claimed to be a world’s record for n of America office one performance was the $138,000 Charlotte Reeves, violin;ipuflding which will replace the received for a Red Cross benefit. { Betty Burnett, viola, and Charles historic playhouse, probably leav-| The show was George M. Cohan’s ing Pittsburgh one of the few "Out There.” =

The pastor signs the witch's condemnation to be. burned "for the church. Her mother was condemned as a {he greater glory of God." With his young wife watching, the pastor stands unyielding as the witch is raised past his head. The cremation pyre is already burning. The witch goes screaming to | her death and the choir boys sing out with "Dies Irae" [Day of

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The pastor's mother and son agree he was killed by his wife's witchcraft. The old woman denounces her and the son derides her. Crushed in spirit she repeats the ritual confession that she is a weapon of the devil. She will now be lead off

_to die at the stake, and the young voices will

again sing out "Day of Wrath." STUDENT RECITAL TODAY

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~Eroica’ Outstanding By HENRY BUTLER If you want to hear the Indianapolis Symphony do its best

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orchestra this afternoon will repeat last night's program of Beethoven's “Eroica” symphony and compositions by Delius, Bir | Ernest himself dnd Gustav Holst. It wasn'f just courtesy to 4 talented outlander that prompted last night's listeners to recall Sir Ernest four times after the

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|playing I've yet heard them do. | Stimulated by a vigorous, method.

ical and yet highly musical -ate {tack on the problems of Beethoe ven’s Third, the orchestra mem

{taneously did Fabien Sevitzky {proud. For Dr. Sevitzky this sea{son certainly has amassed the |best orchestra - in Indianapolis {history. Ca | Flalls Arms Sir Ernest, who looks a bit like a shorter-statured Dr. Kinsey, flails arms without baton. But all that intricate gesturing, {sometimes like a basketball cheer-

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