Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1949 — Page 9

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Coliseum "FUNZAPOPPIN' "

Indiana 2EL PASO"

1 ndiane ‘Roof ACE BAILEY AND THE UTAH rRalLERs |

Cast of 400 To Lend Color, Punch In O.&J. ‘Riot’ on Coliseum Stage |

“‘Funzapoppin’ Slated for 9 Nights Starting June 3, at Top Price Of $2.40; Civic Theater Workshop to Present ‘Bees, Flowers’

By HENRY BUTLER “FUNZAPOPPIN’,” the Olsen & Johnson deal that combines vaudeville with riot and insurrection, is the next big live-entertainment offering coming here. It will be at the Coliseum for nine nights, starting Friday, June 3. Even allowing for the customary enthusiasm of press agents, the advance publicity for this show indicates it’s going to be the biggest O.'& J. venture in the partners’ 20 | or more years of experience. If statistics mean anything, the announced cast of nearly | 400 performers may give some notion of OIDs or amit the magnitude of the production. eo o

CHANCES ARE you remember the But-

ler Bowl show Ole and Chick put on in the 1047 summer season. So it's hardly necessary to describe in detail here how the O. & J. laugh-mak-ing technique operates.

The partners shrewdly employ every device yet invented to reduce their spectators to the ! borderine of hysteria, including ruggedly embarrassing treatment of audience participators a stunt radio quiz programs have exploited so much in recent years. This package of entertainment will be offered at $240 top price, with plenty of cheaper seats ~available. The Civic Theater Workshop will present “Bees and Flowers” at 8:3C p. m. next Friday and Saturday.

with Barbara Weesner, pianist, as soloist. Down in Bloomington, Ernst Hoffman and | the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra and Choral Union will present an important concert at 8:30 p. m. DST tomorrow in IU auditorium. ® & o

phony in E minor, No. 4, and Brahms’ “Schicksalslied” and Verdi's “Te Deum,” the latter two for chorus and orchestra. Dean Wilfred C. Bain of the Bchool of Music directs the Choral Union of more than 200 voices. Mr. Hoffman and the orchestra will be heard again at 8:15 p. m. DST next Wednesday in an | all-Mozart program in East Hall on the campus. Boloist will be Urico Rossi, first violinist of the Berkshire Quartet, in Mozart's violin concerto. One important thing about the summer operetta season Charles Hedley is seeking to organize this year is that it will keep the summer-show tradition alive, o 4 OH

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GIVEN AS a benefit for the Civic’s scholarship fund for apprentices, the two-act comedy by Frederick Kohner and Albert Mannheimer will be directed by Dorothea Bertorelli. Mrs. Bertorelll played the leading role in the Civic's April production of “I Remember Mama.” The “Bees and Flowers” cast will include Civic veterans and some youngsters from the TeenAge Workshop and the Junior Civic. Those appearing will be: Frances Blair, Juanita Timmons, Consy Evans, Nancy Rickley, Drucie Beall, William Bishop, Kurt Gibson, Susie Stewart, Don Bishop, Mike Silverman and Rita Small. The Teen Sinfonietta, Renato Pacini directing, will give its second annual spring concert .at 3 p. m. tomorrow in Herron Art Museum,

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MUSICIANS, stage-hands and other participants who have indicated their willingness to go into the venture on a purely co-operative basis are doing a real service for the community. If the season of five weeks or less at the Fairgrounds, site of Mr. Hedley's 1946 “Bittersweet” production, does materialize, the entire town will benefit. It's all too easy to let stage entertainment die. It was easy to destroy the English Theater without replacing it. The way local psychology often seems to operate, a whole summer with no musical-show program might persuade many persons that we don't need anything of the sort.

| beauties whose charms | been remembered over thou- | sands of years would be wall- | flowers beside a modern movie

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HOLLYWOOD, May 21 (UP) —Historical researchers have

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queen, Fatima and Cleopatra and

| Helen of Troy were alluring.

But only about six hours a day. Such modern beauties as Rita

| Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman and

Linda Darnell look gorgeous 18 hours a day on schedules that

| ‘would make. a hag of Cleopatra.

” “THE Zamions ancient beauties must have been very allur-

| ing indeed,” Miss Darnell sald,

“or they wouldn't have been remembered so long. But I wonder how they'd look these times, without 18 hours to spend on themselves? “Fatima, for instance, kept herself on. a careful regime which undoubtedly made her the reigning enchantress of the 7th Century but which no presentday woman would endure. “She was Mohammed's favorite daughtér,” Miss Darnell added, “and she could get away

| with it. She used to lie in bed

a minimum of 11 hours a day. Then she followed up her long beauty sleep with a relaxing dip in medicated steam baths next to her boudoir. “After the baths, she went back to bed. Then women massaged her body for half an hour with aromatic lotions and soothing unguents.” » » ” AFTER THAT, she put on her costly Oriental raiment and decked herself with priceless jewels from her treasure chest. Another couple of hours combing her hair and she was ready | to go out, :

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"THE RE D PONY"

Esquire "FURIA"

Circle \ "MA AND PA KETTLE" Range War, Hill Folk And Music on Film Bill

Prominent in attractions coming to the local stage and screen are Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson, stars of ''Funzapoppin’, i the Coliseum June 3 through 12; Fred Astaire and Ginger R in "The Barkleys of Broadway" (Loew's, Wednesday), Myrna po ne Robert Mitchum in "The Red Pony" (Lyric, Wednesday), John Payne, Gail Russell and Sterling Hayden in "El Paso" (Indiana, Wednesday), Rossano Brazi and Adriana Benetti in ‘Furia

Astaire and Rogers Reunited at Loew's; (Esquire, Friday), Ace Bailey and the Utah Trailers, at the Indiana Roof for square dancing today, and Percy Kilbride and Marjorie

Esquire fo Re-run Two Foreign Pictures Main in “Ma and Pa Kettle" (Circle, Thursday). RANGE WARS, mountaineers and a musical comedy —— will dominate the film fare at the downtown theaters this week. First-run openings are: ‘The Barkleys of Broadway” (Loew's, Wednesday), “Ma and Pa Kettle” (Circle, Thursday), “El Paso” (Indiana, Wednesday), and “The Red Pony” (Lyric, Wednesday). came along to challenge their auEsquire Theater will bring thority.

back two foreign films shown! Backwoods folks, there earlier in the season, “The Kettle” Damned” (French) and “Furia” a ramshackle house until (Italian). “The Damned” con- enters a tobacco slogan contest

Astaire Nixes Biography

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, ay 21- Fred Astalre's biography will never reach the screen. M-G-M may be thinking about the idea, but Fred isn't. What's more, he has even taken legal steps to prevent it after his death. He asked me to deny, emphatically, that “The Fred Astaire “Ma and Pa gtory” {s on M-G-M's fall production schedule, then said:

and their 15 kids live in ‘1 don’t want my life on the’ Th Ga ——. pa screen—now or ever. There's a thank the people—by transcrip-

clause in my will prohibiting it tion, The Groans has been critiafter my death. I'm just not a/Cized plenty this year for not cerns a group of Hitler's hench- and wins an ultra-modern home. ‘ook-what-I1-did’ type of fellow, | Showing up to accept the many men and their escape from Ger- The Kettle family of “The Egg “What has been important to B¥Ards De bp nya A the many during the last days of the 8nd I" are back complete with ame in my life wouldn't be box Now he'll ni . ends, He' Third Reich. couple of new members and a4 office. A film biography hits a > OW Ne ma ame ol e'll “Furia,” the tragedy of a young love interest In the form of Meg few highlights and the rest is fic- Dark In oo lat 1 seco ee farm-wife and her affair with a nanfiall anf Richard Long: tion. * T don’t waat it.’ {honor Ia & : Be Seah ” |stableboy, brings Rossano Brazzi, Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Fred and Betty Hutton are re-|® 1051 &irsTOW OF he 6eas0n. claimed to be the successor to Main take their same character hearsing their dance routines for :. Valentino, back to the screen, roles as before. All roles por-| “Little Boy Btue” at Paramount 1 Hoay. Valite 1 abecting na Brazzi is the frustrated stable. trayed in “The Egg and 1” date and then Fred goes back to M-G- ol Video Times.” Same sound, hand who must: choose betweerr kept by the same people sa that M for three more pictures, includ- different spelling the farm-wife and her step-daugh- “Ma and Pa Kettle” can carry ing another wim Ginger Rogers. , pall a . : on as a sequel. | o | Ge . “The Barkleys of Broadway,” | # x = Reunion of Fred and Ginger oviG Joud BOING on A aris Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, ADAPTED from the John in he Barkleys oi Brojdway | Forsyte Saga.” Thirteen writers relish ‘both their quarrels and the Steinbeck story, “The Red Pony” Ek RL Tt i Pro. have turned in 17 complete scripts Uenderous at comet wth TAK. wi sar Myrna Loy 45d Robert aces ‘Arinu Treed 5 happy 0000 oY °F 8 period ot 3 E Levant ee a suc- Min Fhe wal} boy is por- man. . 4» (he Screen Writers Guild, = recess in a series of musicals, until traye y Feter es. | ceive film credit , they have a real love-quarrel. The boy is given a pony PEOPLE still kid Astaire about

by " Only the inimitable Levant is able his father, but even the gift can- "Lp WORRENL 0 | DOROTHY MALONE Wi live to bring them together again as not break the tie between the ot hice, one Biroee two Holhrwood for. film work when a song and dance team. {boy and the ranch hand. The hg

years were good for me. Then I'ghe becomes the wife of Dr. i 8-8 resentful father fears that his h s and | “EL PASO” concerns that town: whole life is being ruined by the got so busy with race horse ‘Philip Montgomery Pai month.

my dancing schools that I came [in the days when 'guns were law too-wise hand. y 8 NICE LINE from "Larry Sloan:

back to pictures for a rest. But |and it was no place for“a lady, When the pony dies, father, . ty when I retire 1 won't Talking about a certain actor, {like Gall Russell.

Tyrants Bter- gon and ranch hand are all thrée tell anyone.’ {Larry said, “Sure, he's egotisti[ling Hayden and Dick Foran given a chance to gain a new set ical, but you'll have to admit he's

|ruled the town until John Payne of human values, | BING CROSBY is going tosincere about it. ; ; ‘ 1