Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1949 — Page 9

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COLISEUM . . . Helen Grayco will

appar oar with the of 1950 in “concerts” at 8:15 p. m. (CST) Thursday,

LOEW'S . . . Marcia Yan Dyke and Var Johnson. enjoy some of the musical entertainment "In the |

Spike Jones Band and Musical Depreciation Revue Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p. m. (CST) Sunday.

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Good Old Summertime," starting Thursday. :

Martens Concert

Stellar Talent for

Series Offers 1949-50 Season

Horowitz, Ballet Russe and 2 Operas on Winter Program; Szigeti to Perform Bach D-Minor Concerto With Symphony

By R. K. | MORE PLANS for the 1949-50 winter season of serious music are beginning to

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trickle in to Jend a note of optimism to the future. The Martens Concert’ Series for the coming season will open Oct. 17 at the Murat Theater with a double opera program. Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” and Mascagni's

“Cavalleria Rusticana will be presented by

the Charles Wagner companies.

Marguerite McClelland, soprano, will sing the leading role, “Nedda.” in “I Pagli-

acci” to open the season at 8:30 p. m. Three other presentations are’ planned on the Martens series, headed by Gladys Alwes. Thomas IL. Thomas, baritone, will be heard in recital Sunday sfternoon, Nov. 20. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo will be presented on Monday, Jan, 23, The program for the ballet company will be announced later, . Vladimir Horowit2 will close the series with a piano recital on Sunday, Apr. 16. : * ¢ ¢ » i THIS MAY BE a good time to reflect on the the Martens series, which has brought a variety of entertainment to Indianapolis in past years. The series was started by Ona B. Talbot who later turned the praject over to Nancy Martens: The series retains Mrs. Martens’ name. After Mrs. Martens’ death, Gladys Alwes assumed command and now. controls’ the concerts from her music shop in the Wilking Music Co. Also, in the way of announcing, Dr. Fabien Sevitzky intends to commemorate three great men of music during’the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's 1949-50. season. - * * DR. SEVITZKY, conductor and music direc tor of the ‘orchestra, announced that the programs will feature works of Chopin, whose death occurred 100 years ago this year; Bach, whose death was 200 years ago; and of Goethe, who was born 200 years ago, : Solo artists for the coming season will per form the following works in honor of the cen-* tennial and bicentennial commemorations: Ania Dorfmann, pianist, will feature a seldom heard orchestration for plano and orchestra of Chopin's “Andante Spianato ‘and Grand Polonaise.” Gold and Fizdale, duo-planists, will perform the Bach Two-piano Concerto. The world-reknown violinist, Szigeti, will perform the Bach D-Minor Lencerto and the orchestra will honor the great composer with an orchestration of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The only other writer whose works inspired more music than Goethe was, perhaps, Shakespeare. Beethoven, Gounod, Berlioz, Brahms, Egmont and Ducas all found a wealth of themes and inspiration from Goethe. It is for this, then, that Dr. Sevitzky makes up the third of the trio to be honored for their contributions toigreat music. He has chosen as a special tribute to Goethe the intricate opus of Lisat, Py Faust Symphony.” or *

DOROTHY MUNGER, Indianapolis pianist and faculty member at the Jordan College of Music, will appear as guest artist with the Hoe-

- Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2

sier Symphony Orchestra in the Canterbury Col-

lege Auditorium on Nov. 15. She will perform in C-Minor with the orchestra.

The Hoosier Symphony, with home base at Canterbury College, draws its components from Danville and surrounding area. It is under the direction of Thomas Wilson, The orchestra's first concert of the season on Oct. 16 will feature Norris Greer, tenor from Philadelphia. In the joore immediate future, Spike Jones and the State Fair Follies are in the offing in the way of live entertainment. Jones and his wild company will perform at the Coliseum Thursday, Friday ‘and next Saturday and Sunday. The Jones aggregation promises to have all the animated sound effects authentic. For example: The sound of a greased pig sliding down a chute will emit from a greased pig sliding down a chute. Jones’ collection of sound effects contains enough hardware to put Vonnegut's to shame. The State Fair Follies will be held before the main grandstand for six consecutive évenings, starting next Sunday. One of the mainstays of the Follies will be Jeanne Devereaux, ballerina. The show has a cast of more than 75 persons. Ample notice has been given to the Indiana University Theater production of “Springtime for Henry” at the Brown County Playhouse each Fri-

day, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. through |

Sept. 18, so it won’t be mentioned here this week.

Ruth Gillette Through As ‘Mae West No. 2’

- HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27 (UP)--Next time a movie producer wants ‘Mae West, he can darn well get her. Ruth Gillette is through, she said being the poor man’s Mae West, Every movieman with a Mae West part thinks first of Miss West. Then he looks at the budget and calls Miss Gillette! a “I'm through with being just second-best,” Miss Gillette declared. “From now on I ‘want fumigated roles, and If I can't get them I'll go back where I came from." Miss Gillette played a carbon-copy Mae West in such pictures as “In Old Chicago,” “Frontier Marshal” and “Hello, Frisco, Hello.” You probably don’t remember her, she admits, which just goes to show she should have been playing herself instead of somebody else,

INDIANA . . . Barry Fitzgerald, Ann

ESQUIRE . . . Alf Kijellin consoles Mai Zetterling, the tortured girl : in "Torment," which starts Friday.

} CIRCLE + « « Anne Baxter

Blyth and Bing Crosby in quest of the stolen Blarne

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oys new popularity as the

opening Thursday. » »

3 Movies Provide Musi

"Hotcha"

girl in “You're My Everythi A

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In Fare at Downtown Theaters

One Opens Wednesday at Indiana; Others At Loew's and Circle on Thursday THERE'LL be music galore in the downtown theaters this week, with. three musical-comedy films slated to dpen on Wednesday and Thursday at the first-run houses. Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth and Barry Fitzgerald in “Top O’ the Morning” will start Wednesday at the Indi-

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LYRIC .. . Walter Brennan and James Brown prepare for action in “Brimstone,” which will start on Thursday,

Swordfish Battle Rages On

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27—The battle continues: - Bill Demarest still hasn't caught that marlin swordfish. The game is in its ninth year this summer. Bill is vice president of Hollywood's “No Marlin” Club. Para-| mount. talent director Bill Meiklejohn is president. He's been trying! to catch one for 17 years. — " > ” The two Bills are living at Bal-| MAYBE you've wondered why boa, with a chartered boat at|Gloria Swanson looks so good on| their doorstep. Every morning television. Here's the secret. Her) they comb the Pacific between contracts specify that she gets to} Laguna and Catalina Island. It's|tell the video boys how to light] costing them a fortune. But they her. Yep, she uses movie tech-| {gotta catch a marlin. nique. . After all these years it's become | earn BEL a personal grudge against all mar-| ENCOURAGING SIGN outside lin. It's even reached the stage ® downtown Los Angeles theater: |where Demarest blames it all on| © Popcorn. Too much noise.” | his agents, MCA-—the Marlin Now it's documentary cartoons. Corporation of America. “White House Mouse” and “Texas| " Tom” in M-G-M's “Tom and Jer- | They've been at it two, weeks ... ,ories will feature actual lo{now. Still no marlin. Two more, ales. . . . Cole Porter is writing a

{weeks to go. They're sweating It| ; | musical version. of Anita Loos out. Demarest and his wife, Lu- story, “Gentlemen” Pre f or

cille, gave a dinner party “to cele- - brate Bill's marlin,” Bill ex-| Blondes. * no»

plained: “Every summer we give| mori vywooD's top night a dinner to.celebrate catching my | spots, Ciro's and the Mocambo, imarlin. I give the party before Il were ready to throw in the sponge {catch the marlin on account of I last month. No customers. Now (mever catch a marlin.” it's New Year's Eve every night, {~ He went to sea for nine hours/thanks to, two great acts—Dean |the day after the dinner party./Martin and Jerry Lewis at: Ciro’s (No luck. That's the way it island Marge and Gower Champion {with Demarest dnd Meiklejohn. [at the Moeambo. | Its why they're so mad at di- 8.88 |! rector Frank Capra. One day DIVORCE ORCHESTRATION: | Capra chartered a boat and [Since Irving Berlin and family | within two hours had caught a {arrived at the Cal Neva Lodge at | marlin. Then he said to his boat- Lake Tahoe to establish residence] | man, “Mrs, Capra would like to | eatch a marlin, too.” So they | fished a little while longer and | Mrs, Capra caught a marlin and | they were all home by 5 pm

[for daughter Mary Ellen's di-| |vorce, the-hotel band leader, Bob {Millar, plays a 17-minute Betlin| medley every night when the|: troop into the dining

game of love,

| Investigator,

diana Theater. Old Summertime,” Loew's; | “You're My Everything,” Circle, and “Brimstone,” Lyric. . Esquire Theater will open with a double foreign bill Friday, “Torment” (Swedish) and “Passionelle” (French), Both | are adult fare and deal with clandestine romance, crime and retribution. “Torment” brings a strange love triangle to the screen. A schoolboy and his sadistic teacher both vie for the affections of the same none-too-pious girl. The girl is torn between her young lover and the cruel temperament of the teacher, : Emile Zola's “Passionelle” is the type of story which only the French could make fit for | film fare, and then, it must be | judged by their standards. It is the tale of a beautiful and ruthless girl and the men she uses as pawns in. her vicious |

» » . THE BLARNEY STONE is | stolen and American insurance Bing Crosby, is sent to the rescue. “Top O' the Morning” concerns the ensuing search and chase for the rascal who would dare to tread on Irish pride. Bing, with the help of the local police force, Barry Fitzgerald and Hume Cronyn; starts his investigation. He encounters many obstacles unconducive to proper police work, the most formitable being lovely Ann Blyth, Fitzgerald's daughter. " Ann is determined that Bing is the man for her after the village wise woman, steeped in folk lore, gives her the “conditions” under which her true love will come. Unknowing, Bing fulfills all the specifications, including the green lining in his coat.” ‘The film gives Ann a chance to display her fine voice which has been kept silent during her recent series of dramatic films. Ardent fans can tecall her sing- " ing in the films during the war

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Thursday openers are: “In the ‘Good

when “she “was teamed “with

| Donald O'Connor. : 88» { ANNE BAXTER does a take-

off on the Clara Bow-type star of the silent flickers in “You're My Everything.” Along with

ter,

1924-38. Little. Shari; the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson of Indianapolis, goes through the “Good Ship Lollipop” routine of Shirley Temple fame. Old-timers, Jack Mulhall and Buster Keaton, will appear in

sequences of the film which |

are a rehash of the early movie

| days. Anne portrays the daughter’ | of a very proper Bostonian fam- |

ily who, in a moment of youth-

| ful whimsey, marries a vaude- | { ville hoofer, Dan

Dailey. She

becomes a chorus girl in order |

to travel with her husband.

When Dailey goes to Holly- |

wood, the new film center of the U. 8.,, Anne follows along. The film-makers are impressed

| by Anne, and leave Dailey be-

hind in their wild: rush to make Anne the new rage of the na-

| tion, the “Hotcha” girl.

Dalley comes into his own

with his singing and dancing,

and Anne loses out when the movies contract the sound track. After Dailey has a run of popularity, he too retires in oblivion. It is then that little Shari comes into the limelight as a child sensation, H » » JUDY GARLAND and Van Johhson start a correspondence romance which leads into a lot of song and dance routines “In the Good Old Summertime.”

Centered around the afore-men-

tioned and a music shop run

‘by 8. Z. Sakall; music, dance

and romance are the keynotes.

young man. The correspondence is a great success, and the two parties arrange a special meet-

ing. Unknowing, the girl, Judy, works in the same store with | Johnson and is his bitter rival. The eventual revelation and the ensuing courtship lead into a lot of good old songs. On the sidelines, 8. Z.' Sakall is busy | pleading his cause with mas-

| tronly Spring Byington. As the { film started, it ends with a

song. » » =» “BRIMSTONE” concerns | Walter Brennan and the terror | he creates in trying to stop the early settlers from fencing in the rangeland. Organizing an outlaw band, Brenfian preys upon the people wurntil lawman Rod Cameron steps forward in the cause of justice. In the odd position of “right. ful lawlessness,” Brennan has the ranchers on his side until he forgets his original purpose and goes on a spree of terror, The sheriff, Forrest Tucker, be

comes & part of Brennan's | schemes, Cameron also elimi nates him in his clean-up cams~ paign. Brennan has troubla when his son, James Brown, quits the gang to carry on a love affair with Adrian Booth. In the bloody end, it is Brown who saves Cameron and aids in kil | Ing his own father.—R. K. 8.

Audie Won't Be

Villain Forever HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27 (UP) --Audie Murphy's mentor is begging his fans to wait a little longer, please. Audie’s not go ing to-be a heel on _.the screen forever, . : But Paul Short wishes those eager fans who've been deluge ing him with letters would re. member that Clark Gable, Alan Ladd, Willlam Powell and a couple of dozen other 1 got their start playing -the worst kind of villains. Why not

Mow ui so “ANiie’'s not going to be & bad boy forever,” Mr. Short

Buster Keaton also has a role |

in this offering.

Johnson, a music store clerk, |

answers an advertisement in

the paper of a girl desiring correspondence with a refined