Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1949 — Page 9
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Brown County Playhouse "THE OLD SOAK"
"Esquire “THE BAKER'S: WIFEY
Failure of Starlight Musicals To Get Support Proves Mystery
‘Where Are the Crowds?’ Puzzled Promoters Ask: Slim Attendance
Discouraging in View of Well-Deserving Efforts of Casts and Others ‘ By HENRY BUTLER DOES INDIANAPOLIS watt anything first-rate in the live entertainment line? That's & quéstion some persons connected with Starlight Musicals are asking today, as “The Cat and the Fiddle" goes-into-its final Fairgrounds pérformance at 8:30 p- m. . . Where were the crowds? Where were the droves that stayed away? It's a pretty serious question, coming as it does a year after the 1948 “Stars Unr ry } der ‘the Stars” ege- -laying - contest. By { good, and Mr, Hedley's choral ensembles have now, none of the stock excuses for slim at- | been as fineas you'll hear anywhere. teridance ' (weather, insufficient publicity, | It's not that the town’ is poverty-stricken. ' . - Look at Victory Field's attendance Bure, tightened purse-strings), seems valid | Wouldn't you thin it possible that one-half, you ask me,” said one observer today, “ even one-third of maximum baseball attendance this: town just doesn’t want summer operetta. | might be No use trying to fight local apathy.’ & The same observer saw little likelihood of promoters tackling a 1850 season. If Starlight Musicals, operating under the best possible conditions, could do so poorly, who's going to take- the-risk-again? i] i » + "
reached by same period? Where does the lar go? , ¢ Or is this season just another example of the totally unpredictable behavior of the IndEmapotts audience 2; Cecti-—Byrne—stiil-- hates to think of the losk Theater Productions Iric.,
summer -opera for the
summer-entertainment dol-
PROBABLY IN no other instance have musi-
took on “Brigadoon” last season. That altoc age-h. . ; Ma an sage, To oF ell lon 2ous] gether ‘delightful &nd beautiful musical show, Charles Hedley's . Fairgrounds venture. - Here with loads of ‘ national and local publicity, | was an unprecedented offer.of help. All these | foPped like “ker-plunk!” on a kettle-drum. participants were saying, in effect; “We're doing | - OP
FABIEN SEVITZKY gets a bit" hyper-ten-sive when he compares Murat attendance for Spike Jones with what the Symphony generally draws. Some of us in past seasons have drawn similar comparisons between “Tobacco Road” or “Majd in the Ozarks” and a high-quality, pack age like “Lute Song.” Even veterans of local show business don't prefend t¢ know the Indianapols audience. There's just no predicting what the town will
this for Indianapolis. We're willing to take the risk of earning nothing, if we can thereby keep summer opera alive.” For :1l the response they got, they might have been dishing up cold oatmeal’ It's true that *“ thearts” attendance reached 4 maximum of nearly 3000 Friday, July 22. But 3000 is about haif what maximum one-night at: tendance should have been in this brief season, if the venture were to pay for itself and maybe
accumulate a little nest-egg for a future season. { go ‘for. . Having written mysélT blue in the ¢ oo face repeatedly, trying to persuade readers to T™ DEEPEN THE MYSTERY, this year's support these seemingly wotth-while ventures,
shows’ have been considerably better than the dizing do small good. Meanwhile, it's just plain’ ‘depressimg to see poor reception given Starlight. Musicals. It looks as if the town is determined to get allel and duller. » we A
& much smaller budget. With the unfortunate exception of the male lead in. Sweethearts,” all | the the imported. singers have had excellent voices
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‘Nature’ Erases Blemishes
} HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6 (UP) The"latest boon to looking like Hedy Lamarr with a face like
‘Harpo Marx is a-4nature” that covers bleniishes, looks like real skin, adds or. subtracts suntan and won't rub off. The “nature” paste is a vegetable stain, mild and harmless whose outstanding istic is that it doesn’t leave any
water on your face | shows through just as if that | lovely skin were your-own
1 » n » THE IDEA comes from a movie makeup man, Bob Stew
phanoff, who had to figure out
a way fp make the actors in
Samuel * Goldwyn’s “Roseanna McCoy." a story of feuding in Kentucky, ldoK as natural as
a Kentucky mountaineer Leaving them natural was no answer. Actors without makeup often photograph chalky white “The best thing about it,” Mr. 8tephanoff said. “Is that it
only-takes half the time to put |
on that ordinary makeup does The girls in the picture can com® to the studio at 8 and be
on the set'at9, . a.» MEN like the “nature” look, | too, Mr. Stephanoff claimed. It's more comfortable than
I must confess I think preaching. and propagan[for instance,
sticky creams. Mr. Stephanoff foresees a big demand for the ‘‘nature” look from women everywhere. It'll keep them from looking: when they're made up as if they were wearing masks. “We don't know just soon we can get it on the mar-
ket, It's not for sale now.” Mr. Stephanoff ‘said. “I expect to see a -lot of it used
when women can buy it. | “When they go to the beach, they can smear themselves 'with the ‘nature’ stuff in thé morning apd look like a nyt-brown Lana Turner
all day long.” ‘
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Loew’s { "ANNA LUCASTA"
Dramas Bring Somber Note to City’s Theaters
‘Anna Lucasta’ and ‘House of Strangers’ To Share Honors-With- Comedy and-Western--. THERE WILL BE an ominous tone tothe movie fare coming up this week with the arrival of (Indiana, Wednesday) (Loew's; Thursday) on the local screens.™ : “The Girl From Jones Beach” open at the Circle Thursday.
[- Strangers” 1n a lighter vein,
and Indian epic, “Massacre
River,” . starting Wedhesday. Esquire Theatér has scheduled a. return éngagement of two French dramatic comedies The. Baker's Wife” and "The Well-Digger's Daughter Roth films have Raimu and Charpin in the Jeads. ‘Anna Lucasta based on
the stage success by Philip Yor dan, stars Paulette Goddard as | Anna. » Klthoudh =the | presentation has been. with a | "Negro cast, the film reverts to tthe original play and portrays a Polish family ® 8 =» : OSCAR HOMOLKA, as- the fathen of the Lucasta family, goes to the Brooklyn waterfront in search of . his “wayward , daughter, Anna. He persuades her to return home with him and marry a wealthy friend as a | means of bringing a little money into their impoverished fam- | ily circle. A Anna consents to the marriage and finds herself in love | with her husband, Bill Bishop. One of Anna's friends from her waterfront days, John Ireland, | | appears on ‘the scené tg turn {Anna's father and husband away from ~her. Embittered, { she returns to the waterfront | and her old ways.
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Stage and screen attractions to come to Indianapolis and locale ‘are: Edward G. Robinson and Susan Hayward in "House of Strangers’ (Indiana, Wednesday): Virginia Mays ~ and Ronald Reagan in "The Girl From Jones Beach” (Circle, Thursday); Paul. ette Goddard in "Anna Lucasta™ (Loew's, Thursday); Joe Vurpillat in the title role of the Indiana University Theater production of "The Old Soak," on stage at the Brown County Playhouse each Fri#hay, Saturday and Sunday evening through Sunday, Aug, 14; Ginette Leclerc and Raimu in ''The Baker's Wife" (Esquire, Friday), | and” Tarole Mathews, “Massacre River" {lyric Wednesday)
Benny Tells Goldwyn: Story. -
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ROBINSON is cheapest guy in the world, Fred Allen wouldn't have anything to thes scion of a House of talk about Birangers™ "HI& Tour sons, Jack Also tells this Sam Géldwyn- story: Goldwyn ordered two none trusting an rhe plot his ‘jamb chops at tHe Jewish Appeals dinner at which he contributed dow niall When Robinson finds: §100.000, _A nearby diner reminded him that the chops “were costs im 1 fs i1} nria . , . himsel . Saced ht hi > HB Eon ing him. $59,000 each landed Da and . both bow Ne. n. on i on is. ry ! " Replied Goldwyn: . ! Se ae na an 0 0ys in comes to his ah and. ir “I: oAn't help it, doctor's " drin in ” alng = lie Q self fro rarby =» & " ue doing ga a eng H I” m m orders. ne Arby p « port giv Hh 1e. others onte 8s struggle : Ne rio and S-year-olc ephen ’ . » » { he an he ic 8 t To. yt " PEC y eR: al 8 ith e crack: author, saw the movie version of father's oe is the basis of a : . ’ ? stirring’ d Y Lust for Gold,” based on his That's. all right, daddy. irring’ drama book, “Thunder Gods Gold,” and You're a swell actor, Anyway. A-rmenre—for-the—girl-whose : - wereld malin aatotbneanll
now is. shopping for a lawyer to!
beauty rivals that of 12 pro? tessional models leads .Eddie [file a million-dollar damage suit Lea De Ldn says. he mod Rracken and Ronald Reagan against Columbia. Says he was ho uma S ¢ he "Show to discover “The. Girl From |falsely’ portrayed as a grandson ©Yery'Hing va po | Jones Beach,” Virginia Mayo. [of the murderous, seducing, gold-! Much of the action takes [squandering “Dutchman” of the IT'S 'G BORG E WRIGHT'S
|tamed ont Dutchman gold mine. story about a couple of 3-year a old movie tots who were discus. EVERYONE 18 borrowiig the Sing anvther, - squelch line Joan Leslie throws at | “She.says.she’s two and a half, {Joan Fontaing in “Bed of Roses” {said one. . The other snapped: “She's threo
place on-famous Jones Beach, which for this filming was geén- | | erously covered with some of | Hollywood's best torsos,
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gambling hall queén versus rice {Ren she leatng Jour Bas oe if she’s a day.” girl ‘are the central conflict In “Bomoone.". says Joan L. { ® % “Massacre River” Guy MAAS lu oq tell the birds and bees| ° Music. Publisher Ralph Peer son and Rory Calhoun; young. | L 2 ’ About you.” | predicts a ‘big boom in dance cavalry officers in the post { 1 Civil War ¢éra, are both -at- | iE | able Hawalian musie, He's itis l. tracted ‘tb the €8lonel's daugh- | DANA ANDREWS went to Wodueing A balirgom. hula. | ter, Cathy Downs Madison: Carolina Island “on a day off . a wins out, but in turn, spurns (from _“My Foolish Heart” and BAND leader Eddy Howard In her to run away with a gam-. decidéll fo teach his two boys, 'trytng to buy an interest in an _.
David, and Stephen, how to sail Eastern baseball club . . . Sign a-dinghy. He was doing’ all right! potted by Pave Cavanaugh on ibeing a very. know-it-all father the lawn of .the UCLA campus: ’ when ‘a sudden. gust of wind “Don't Ruin the Gay Young turned the small craft over sdyBladu " ;
bling hall proprietress, Carole Mathews. Calhoun gives chase, All ends well after a life and death struggle with a band, of
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