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‘Il Remember Mama’ Continues At Civic Through Saturday

Musical Event Worth Noting Is Annual Concert Today by Constantine Borshoff, Athenaeum Turners’ Orchestra By HENRY BUTLER “I REMEMBER MAMA,” continuing at the Civic through next Saturday, is about all there is to report this week in the stage line. The annual concert by Constantine Borshoff and the Athenaeum Turners Concert Orchestra at 8 p. m. today and the recital at 4 p. m. tomorrow in Herron Art Museum by Mary Spalding, the Symphony's harpist, afe musical events especially worth not-

ing here. Of local interest also will be the recital at 8 p. m. Sunday, Apr. 24, in Bradley M. E. Church, Greenfield, by Bomar

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” » ° DON'T FORGET the scheduled repetition of “Parsifal” in IU auditorium in Bloomington Sunday, May 8. Dean Wilfred C. Bain's School of Music probably took a box-office shellacking on last Sunday's performance of Wagner’'s great music drama. Let's hope the extra performance will draw a capacity house, as it should. For here’s a new and fascinating stage treatment of an opera that has acquired (probably from the Metropolitan production) a bad reputation for being tediously boring. Down at IU, Ernst Hoffman and Hans Busch have done for “Parsifal” something comparable to Sir Laurence Olivier's production of “Hamlet.” By presenting the opera in English, they've made ft understandable. Even though some of the lines (like Parsifal’s remark to Kundry after

her attempt at seducing him fails: “You know _

where ‘you can find me”) sound a trifle funny, the story is clear. : The relation between story and music thus makes sense, and as a result you actually hear and appreciate a great deal more of what the

| orchestra—nerve center of any Wagnerian opera |

--i8 doing. in

-— INCIDENTALLY, I Monday to comment on the success of Mr. Hoffman’s placing of his IU symphony below stage level. Instead of the huge orchestral blast you .get trom the Metropolitan's orchestra at. higher, you hear full tone guality, but deafening’

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volume. have to scream their heads off to be audible, What Mr. Busch has done with the stage side of the footlights is perhaps even more impresgive than what he did with “Tales of Hoffman” and “Down In the Valley" last year. If you've ever seen a Metropolitan Wagnerian production, with all its obsolete and cumbersome scenic-at-tempts at realism, 19th-Century German style, you'll be amazed and thrilled by the IU “Parsifal.” : . + There can be no doubt that this TU production is one of the finest things Indiana has ever seen.

THE ATHENAEUM orchestra program tonight, as previously announced, will present Bruce Foote, Chicago baritone, as soloist.

chor's accompanist, Mr. Foote will present a

capsule classics-to-cowboy-song recital as. the |

second group of the program. He will be heard also with Mr. Borshoff and the orchestra in three final songs.

Batting for Batonists

HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 16 (UP)—John Hoyt divided symphony orchestra conductors into windmills, pigeons and fencers and said a good mimic could steal the jobs of most of them. Mr. Hoyt, who cals himself a “night club comic on parole,” stiidied symphony conducting for all of three weeks. : Mr: Hoyt said it was easy. He'd jmpersonated everybody from, Haile Selassie to a Boston dowager sniffing baked beans in New York hot spots, under his real name, John Hoysradt. Con-

ductors were & cipeh.

As a result, the student singers don't

Ac- | companied by Dorothy Munger, the Maenner- |

Movie Backers Plague Star

' HOLLYWOOD, Apr. i8 (UP) Too many cooks spoil the broth, and in movie making, says 8. Z.

Sakall, too many backers spoil |

the movie. It was many years before his | current job in 20th Century- | Fox's “Oh that “Cuddles” Sakall leave of absence from UFA . studios in Berlin to make a pie-

You Beautiful Doll” | took a |

ture for a group of his admirers |

| from all over Europe.

“I was flattered that I had |

such -fans,"” he said. many backers, what they put me into dav hackers from the various coun “tries and ‘their come on the aet doing a sad

Every friends would Once 1 was

geene with Lily

But so | situations

Darvas, the star, in which she ! : | Cervi and Adriana Benettl take

was dying. » ” ~ | “THE VISITORS { aside and say: i “ ‘Make the comedy.’ “I tell them this is no place for comedy. That did not mat-

call me |

Three of ‘Year's Best’ Films Coming Here

‘Joan of Arc’ Heads List of Top Movies With ‘Portrait of Jennie,’ ‘Connecticut Yankee’ INDIANAPOLIS will receive an extra large dose of film fare when three films claimed to be the year's best

arrive here this week.

Heading the list will be “Joan of Are,” opening Thursday at the Circle, Others are “Portrait of Jennie” (Loew's, next Saturday) and “A Connecticut Yankee”

(Indiana, Wednesday). “Jungle Jim” will play at the Lyric starting Wednesday. “Four Steps in the Clouds.” an Italian release, will open Friday at the Esquire. Gino

the leading roles in the comedyd a. Miss Benetti, an unwed

{ mother, persuades Cervi to pose

{ ter, they hire me for comedy | | velops the situation.

and T must play comedy.”

day off during a picture, and on one day when the company was recording songs Sakall settled down at a coffee house for conversation. A strange min {| stared at him and demanded to { know if he were Sakall:“Why aren't you working?” i the stranger inquired. “I have

in the sun.” -

Every actor has an occasional

as her husband for 24 hours to keep her parents ignorant of ‘the circumstances of her condition. Cervi's wife finds out about his ruse, and thére de-

¥ nn - THE MUCH- HERALDED “Joan of Arc” brings Ingrid Bergman to the screen in the title réle. As the Maid of Or~ leans, Ingrid relives the ageold story on the screen. Ingrid portrays Joan from the ' time the girl is first inspired to lead

| the armies of France until the

Sakall tried to explain he had |

| a day off, .

“But he knows nothing about | pictures and he insists I am-— |

i what you . call

| to the studio with him. I think

{ be is having stroks I go”,

{ it — playing | i hockey. I must go right away |

| di i : money: in your picture, and I'm | disillusioned Joan is burned at

not paying you to drink coffee

the stake ag a heretic. To add to the pageantry of the film, it is in technicolor. ~ n

» : ADAPTED. FROM Robert .

Nathan's book, “Portrait of Jennie” stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten in the roles of the ethereal Jennie and the bewildered artist, respectively. Billed as “an adventure in

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. Following the . original

time” Jennie defies time and

space to bring her mysterious ove to the artist, Cotten. The pictire is climaxed with a New England hurricane during which the secret of Jennie is finally revealed » ” ” HANK MARTIN, Yankee, is portrayed by Bing Crosby in the 1949 technicolor version of Mark Twain's “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.” story more closely than earlier movies based on the Twain book, Mar-

tin is projected from his 1910- |

home in Connecticut to ‘the Court of King Arthur in the year 528, Exercising his Yankee in ‘genuity to keep out of the pit: falls © designed by Arthur's ancients, Hark succeeds in winning the hand of the fair Lady Alisande; Rhonda Fleming. » ” 8 _— JOHN NY WEISSMULLER takes to the jungle again, this

‘time not as Tarzan. He por-

trays the title role in “Jungle Jim.”

Along with Virginia Grey and

George /Reeyes he makes his way through the hinterlands of dark - Africa, continually confronted with the dangers of wild animals. and .ferncious natives, On the same bill gt the Lyric, “The Untamed Breed.” . = i .

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Prominent ‘persons in attractions coming to the local stage ° and screen will be: Rhonda Fleming and Bing Crosby in “A Con. necticut Yankee" (Indiana, Wedriesday); Jimmy Featherstone and his orchestra, on the Indiana Roof today and tomorrow; Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Arc" (Circle, Thursday); Lita Baron and | Johnny Weissmuller in "Jungle Jim" (Lyric, Wednendar) Jennifer | Jones in "Portrait of Jennie" (Loew's, next Saturday), and Gino | Cervi in "Four Steps in the Clouds" (Esquire, Friday).

Taking Richmond Is Tiring | ' = * By Erskine Johnson :

HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 16 Bill and Lucille Ball are in a comedy at Columbia, “Miss Grant Takes pi

for physical action and believe me I'm .getémg™it," /Lueille said There's so much action 1 have to go t6 a doctor aftér work every night and he pulls me back into shape.” 1 asked Lucille if Columbia had talked to her about that chorus girl role in “Born Yesterday.” She sald yes ach. That's where all the wrinkles — If they couldn't find anybody 47° better they said I'd do.” Then fhe added Afd that's the story of my life—but even that's good enough for me.” . x = MISS BALL is talking a deal to do “Dream Girl” on tour) (again this summer. She was out| {with the show 37 weeks

i ew 5 {year, had the time of her life, p.p 8 played to- SRO audiences every-| h Shore subscribed to the

i Racing ¥ f , where and made $1000 a week. | toy shot. . er picking | The Judy Garland-Vincent MONOGRAM 1s talking about Minuet Sepa ation was Bo 44f a, [starring 12-year-old Gary Gray in {pi anyo . y la serfes of westerns, titled “The But Judy may get a surprise ip, p.060 Sheriff.” . .. Republic

when Minnelli starts talking |i, : terms of a property settlement. eng Judy Canova for. a = = » ud

PAULETTE GODDARD got 8! yI'S LEN STERN'S line—*Did [surprise from Burgess Meredith.|you hear about the terrible thing {They agreed not to announce theirithat happened to Glenn McCardivorce plans until they worked thy! He just discovered oil under lout the property séttlement, Bur-\yne Shamrock Hotel.” ml gess jumped the gun on the an-| a.» 8 pe iy CHARLES LAUGHTON, just ~ nr , ”, y BILL HOLDEN is celebrating opening in’ Washington had o his - 10th anniversary on the fine squelch for capital gawkers screen. It was 10 years ago. this who came up and asked, “Aren't month that he. started work in you-Charles Laughton?” 5 | “Golden Boy.” I told him that he. certainly hasn't aged. i

» > > Hollywood's preblem boy, Larry Tierney, is reforming. He just completed a movie in Pore tugal, “Kill ar B¥ Killed.” Di rector Max Nosseck writes that he looks five yedrs younger and aris nothing stronger than

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