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Murat Lines Up 7 Road Shows For Coming Theatrical Season -
“Mister Roberts,’ ‘Anne of 1000 Days,’ ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ Among Headliners in Prospect for Indianapolis Playgoers
By HENRY
AT THE MOMENT of ‘writing are fairly definite.
BUTLER
;-the-dates-for-seven-Murat visits by touring shows
The coming season, as you can see, will-not be a‘ busily brilliant one, although there's always the chance that additions to the list will be made as the fall and win-
ter progress.
Here are the attractions Messrs. Byrne and Ross have lined up, together with the
dates. There will be plenty of time to discuss each individually a week or so before
it arrives. “The SKilter Whistle,” “Anne of 1000 Days,” “Light Up the Sky,” Dec. “The Student. Prince,” Dee. “Finian’s Rainbow,” Jan 168 through 21, “Mister Roberts,” Feb, 13 through 18, “Rose Marie,” Apr. 20 through 22. $. & * WRITING in this outpost about touring shows is apt to produce a kind of “Will the dogsledy get the serum here in time?” state of mind. It's not that Indianapolis is any worse off than ‘some larger cities. It's rather that the Broadway exporters aren't sending enough stuff to us importers. The reasons, of course, are always the same. Costs are continually increasing. The jump in railroad fares (which, just between us, I understand has génerally done the railroads more
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new
harm than good) has made touring prohibitive |
for some of the bigger shows.
What's happening, as a result, Is the kind of | thing Lillian Ross describes in ‘her article on |
summer theaters in the New Yorker for Aug. 20. Actors’ Equity makes concessions to local the-
aters whereby unpaid or dnderpaid amateurs | { lly available diversions.
Each Equity-approved summer theater must em- |
may.work alongside of scale-paid professionals.
ploy a minimum number-of Equity members. The suggestion frequently has been made that It would be easier and cheaper to “tour” stars than to “tour” entire productions. Local theaters could provide settings and supporting casts,
|
| Equity,
from
MISS ROSS’ article the way
indicates somie of the of that—-scheme. Stars aren't too happy about constant change of stage and shape,” Nor do they relish the necessity of practically relearning the vehicle for each supporting cast : Even Tallulah Bankhead tours summer with “package” (already-built) show of Noel Coward's “Private Lives,” netting a paltry $5000 a week for herself,
difficulties in
size
like theaters
when a star
her
the result is not always satisfactory, Miss Ross | Miss Bankhead’s temperament is more | And Miss |
reports. than just a continuous publicity stunt. Bankhead is not alone among actors in being unpredictable ..under--. changing local stances. Legitimate theater is in for some tough years and some big shakeups, if it's going to continue seeking the off-Broadway market. Some big salaries will have to come down. There will have to be a great deal more co-operation along
the lines of this summer's Starlight Musicals at |
the Fairgrounds.
Otherwise, inland-city customers who can't afford to go to Chicago or New York will re-
simply get along with movies, television, bowling, midget-racing, baseball and other more eas-
Our Civic Theater provides possibilities for
the future. with the resources and training it |
offers. It could give us a chance to dicker with when things get really “bad, so that maybe we can'combine local amateur with tourIng professional players in some future winter series. y
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circum- | | much with Charlie that
| a meek, adjust their entertainment spending. They'll just
“Fairgrounds § STATE FAIR FOLLIES
Bergen Invested Only 25 Cents
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3 (UP) 'EAZEr ‘Bergen s tareer-began with an investment of 25 cents. Bergen laid the keystone of
| a show business fortune when
he was a school. “I~pought a pamphiet-called ‘The Wizard's Manual’ quarter,” Bergen said. “It told how to do magic, hypnotism Actually, that
boy in grammar
was the only money spent learning my trade.” Bergen studied the ventriloquy lessons religiously. The investment first started to pay off in scheol, when the teachers were delighted with his tricks.
BERGEN has been so closely |
with his dummy, that: movie a shock
associated Charlie McCarthy audiences are getting
seeing him in his new career as |
a character actor, He worked in “I Remember Mama” and now {is costarring in Para‘mount's “Captain China,” a Pine-Thomas production,
a good actor on my own,” Bergen said. “I've worked so
people may think he's the one who's the actor. “It would be greater, of course, if I could get Charlie to go out and do an act on his own.” Bergen plays a traveling Swede in “Captain China.” As elderly husband, he provides many of the movie's laughs.
After entertaining at straw- | went | into vaudeville with an hour act | and |
berry festivals, Bergen combining the magic ventriloquism he learned from his 25-cent book. parlayed that initial investment into his first jobs in nightclubs and on the radio,
for a |
I ever
some |
By 1936, he |
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Cagney Resumes Life Of Crime in New Film
‘Come to the Stable,’ ‘Madame Bovary,’ ‘Pygmalion’ Revival on Screen Schedule
By R. K.
SHULL
JAMES CAGNEY will revert to his mobster-like | role after 11 years of playing nice-boy when “White Heat” comes to the Indiana Theater Wednesday. Heading the Thursday openers will be “Come to the
Stable” at the Circle and
Lyric will show a double re-issue bill, “Geronimo! | “Trail of
the Lonesome
Pine.” On the North Side,
quire Theater will vival 6f “Pygmalion” Friday. The screen tion of the George Bernard Shaw play stars Wendy Hiller and the late Leslie Howard. » ” . TWO FRENCH nuns, Loretta Young and Celeste Holm, come to New England armed with
EsA Trestarting adapta
show
{| faith and a promise to-build a “I'd like to get a reputation as |
children's hospital. It is their simple faith that makes people “Come Stable” to aid in the projeet. Overcoming obstacles such as New York sophisticater and gamblers, the two nuns accomplish their misston by bringing out the humane side of people. The nuns are not above a little fun as they go about their work. Miss Holm plays an exciting game of tennis and they both drive to New York in a friend's jeep. “Come to the Stable” is billed as a heartwarming comedy.
» » » “MADAME BOVARY,” based on the famed novel by Gustave Flaubert, stars Jennifer Jones in the title role. With Van Heflin as the ever. faithful
to the |
Charles Bovary and |
“Madame Bovary”’ at Loew's.
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and
Louis Jourdan ‘ana Christopher Kent as two of her admirers, Jennifer leads a flighty, pas-sion-punctuated life » ” ~ “WHITE HEAT" nev as a homicidal. paranoiac and Virginia May as his money-grabbing wife. When the heat gets too bad after Cagney pulls a big train robbery, he gives himself up to the police, confessing a lesser crime. He is given a short prison term, concealing the loot until” the time of his release, Edmond O'Brien portrays the Treasury Agent who gains Cagney's confidence in prison and
stars Cag-
eventually brings about his ulti- |
mate downfall. p ... LYRIC’'S double bill one of the first all-color films, “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” back.to Indianapolis. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda star in the tale of
| violence set among the pine | forests of the old Southeast. the pro- |
The other half of gram, “Geronimo!” gives Hollywood's version of the exploits of the famed Indian warrior, Preston Foster, Ellen Drew and
{Andy Devine are starred, along
with “a few hundred Apachy | braves. WN
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Major attractions coming to the Indianapolis amusement world are: “Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard in "Pygmalion" | (Esquite, Friday), Elsa Lanchester, Loretta Young and Celeste Holm in "Come to the Stable" (Circle, Thursday), Jennifer Jones in "Mademe Bovary™ (Loew's, Thursday), Virginia Mayo, Margaiet | Wycherly and James Cagney in "White Heat" (Indiana, Wednesday). Jeanne Devereaux, ballerina, with the State Fair Follies; open: ing tomorrow evening on the stage before the main grandstand, | and William Henry and. Ellen Drew in "Geronimo!" (Lyric, Thursday).
Comedy, Carson Don’t Mix
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. are due
| — 3—Jack Carson and Warner Brothers for a showdown. There's no big beef—just general unhappiness. Jack is objecting to too much low comedy. Jack has been absent from his usual haunts for the last three week-ends and eyebrows started going up. Then Jack explained he was with his 7-yedr-old son at’ a boys’ camp. MT got lonesome,’ ' he said, . ” » HOWARD DUFF and Gardner are back together afte announcing the romance was over.; , Lew Ayres and Adele Mara
Ava scate restaurant. mining, oll, real r/estate and hotel holdings. Mary Pickford putting up the "shutters on Pickfair, for the first at the Chanteclair . Robert time in 25 years. She'll go East Riley. Crutcher. wants - Ronald for a year to be with Buddy Reagan for the role of a sea cap- Rogers, who just signed a New tain in his play, “A Woman's York video contract. Privilege,” due for Broadway in imu March. . . . You'll soon be able Bob Mitchum. just moved into to get married on television, too.! a hisw $5000 home wit 4 ssaty |“Bride and Greom” was just pre-| Hollywood's fan hres (viewed for a TV. version. photographers report that the Dinah Shore will do a cross-coun- town’s two hottest camera Subs try might-cteb tour this winter.” | jects at the moment are Eliza«
en | beth Tayl Montgomery Charles (Bud) Farris, former | cirt. aylor ‘und pig
| man Friday for President Tru- on = man, is studying dramatics Time-Marches-On dept: Jackie with the Ben Bard Players. De- | Coogan’s kid brother Robert,, who omce starred In
cided he wanted a movie, not a political career. . . . George "Soules is playing a gangster in “ Whip.” He's 6 feet 2
Marshall will bow .out of his inches and weights 245 pounds,
| Paramount contract in NoVvem- | ” ” » ber. Bob Hope wants him for SIGHT OF THE WEEK: Lue Ball's impersonation of
his next and RKO is paging | | “Mighty Joe JYouns-
him_for “Jet Pilot.” tille - » y HOLLYWOOD is tajking about! FRANKIE | LAINE will net $50. In- 000 on his recordiig of “Tha
Jack Dempsey's reported vestment of $50,000 in an inde- ucky Old Sun,” the new ‘juke pendent film company which will hax hit. It was written by Beagley release the Mickey Rooney film, {Smith, 56-year-old music director “The Big Wheel,” Jack's businesssf a Nashville, Tean., radio sta ‘| career already Includes large|tion. § * :