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| Phenomenal Run

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Coronet "QUARTET"

Loew's : "THE RED-DANUBE"

"ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD"

of ‘South Pacific’ meer Crp of

May Lead to Road Show Famine

. Prospective Backers Likely to Be Cool Toward Productions

Which Promise Less Profit Than Current Smash Musical Hit By HENRY BUTLER YOUR LOCAL prospect of visiting stage entertainment is not likely to change much from what already has been announced. : Mel Ross, of the Murat’s Theater Productions, Inc., back from New York, says there probably will be few surprises this season. : That's not simply because Indianapélis is off the beaten track, as show people sometimes have said. It's rather because Broadway, following Hollywood caution, is

manufacturing fewer shows. Mr. Ross learned from: his New York visit that few things now being assembled on Broadway are likely to hit Indianapolis even next season. Anybody putting money, which. on Broadway now means big money, into a show is

gambling on a big hit. Big hits don’t tour until they've exhausted the Broadway market. Less spectacular successes are exceedingly speculative as far as touring is concerned, because of sharply mounting touring overhead. The gap between success and failure is steadily widening. Mr. Ross, like most other visitors to Broadway in recent months, tried every lead in connections and influence to get seats for “South Pacific.” Reply: Sold out through next January, with only singles available for the next two follo months, : mee ® & © ’

“SOUTH PACIFIC” certainly is a magnificent show, as. anybody can gather from the Columbia album of recordings. But it's quite possible this phenomenal hit may have scared potential backers of other ventures. If the “South Pacific” success becomes, in businessmen’s jargon, the “norm,” maybe producers and backers will be increasingly hesitant about other shows which, though artis-

‘tically good, may seem less likely to become sensa-

tional. Amateur and semiamateur stage entertainment, locally contrived, may ease the touring-show f e in seasons to come. There are, of course, in such enterprises which may affect show

won high-earning standards. A professional musician, who has known the bitter difficulties of earning a living from coast to coast, said to me recently he viewed with alarm the increased number of amateur and student orchestras giving public entertainment and charging admission. There's a desperate economic problem in all this, not to be thoughtlessly dismissed or solved in a hurry. ® © <4 . AND NOW reminders of coming schedules already announced. Bea Lillle's appearance in “Inside U.S.A.” at the Murat, Oct. 20 through 22, is this month's most brilliant event. Also to be remembered this month are: Charles Wagner's “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci,” opening the Martens Series, Oct. 17; the Norman Granz “Jazz at the Philharmonic,” Oct. 18; Edwin Biltcliffe’s piano recital, Oct. 23, and Sigmund Romberg’s concert, Oct. 27, all at the Murat. At the Odeon, 106 E. North St; the Jordan Players, again directed by G. Marguerite Carlson this season, will put on Emmet Lavery’s “The Magnificent Yankee,” play about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oct. 27 through 29. Next month, as you know, the Symphony begins its 13th year under Fabien Sevitzky with a pair of orchestral concerts Nov. 12 and 13 in the Murat. : ; Final reminder for November: Maxwell Ander-

ess as a whole. Professionals look with|son’s “Anne of the Thousand Days” will be at

‘ §nxiety on ventures that tend to lower their hard-

es

the Murat Nov. 17 through 19.

‘Film Newcomers

HOLLYWOOD, Oct.- 8 (UP) —Let’s hear no more complaining about how newcomers can't get ahead in Hollywood. The

movies are coming up with a |

crowd of new, pretty faces for your inspection. One young actress, Joan Taylor, is playing a lead in her first picture and she says that's five years ahead of the schedule she set for herself. Another Joan, Joan. Evans, was whisked out of junior high school by Samuel Goldwyn and starred in one of his big productions, “Rosanna McCoy.” ~ - - MISS TAYLOR, who is playing opposite Randolph Scott in Nat Holt's “Man of the Plains,” was whisked before the cameras just two days after the Pasadena Playhouse gave her a diploma certifying she can act. She is Mr. Holt’s second discovery in a year. The other, Nancy Olson, who starred with Mr. Scott in her first picture, “Canadian . Pacific” and has done other movies, was an undergraduate at UCLA when she signed a contract. » ” o o

JANET LEIGH starred in her

first movie, “Romance of Rosy Ridge,” and hasn't been less than a star since. The same thing happened to Jean Peters, who won a college queen contest and made her debut opposite Tyrone Power. . Joanne Dru was only Dick Haymes’ wife until she appeared with John Wayne in “Red River.” Now she's wellknow, - and ‘ no longer Mr. Haymes’ wife. . Other newcomers who jumped out in front with only one good break were Ruth Roman, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Jennifer Jones, Lizabeth Scott and Jane Russell. -—

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Circle

Coming on the local stage and screen are: llona Massey and

Meets the Wolf Man" (Lyric,

| Wednesday), Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford in "The Red Danube" | (Loew's, Saturday), Jack Watling and Mai Zetterling in "Quartet"

‘Ichabod aryl Mr. Toad’ Patric Knowles in "Frankenstein

To Open at Circle ‘The Red Danube’ to Make Its

Appearance at Loew’s Theater Saturday By R. K. SHULL ICHABOD CRANE, intrigue, and implications will set | the pace for the downtown theaters in the coming week. | A new Disney animated color film, “Ichabod and Mr.

(Coronet, today), Marion Marshall, Ann Sheridan and Cary Grant | in "| Was a Male War Bride" (Indiana, Wednesday), Peggy Murdoch, featured with-Jimmy Featherstone-and-his-orchestra, at the Indiana Roof, Oct. 14, |5 and 16; Ella Fitzgerald, with Norman | Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic, at the Murat Theater, Oct. 18; Ichabod Crane and the members of his boarding school in "Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (Circle, Thursday), and Michele Morgan and Jean Desailly in "Symphonie Pastorale' (Esquire, Friday). ’

l ° ¥ Toad,” opens Thursday at the Circle Theater. “The ra Gloria Swanson Still Dazzles

Danube” will make its appearance at Loew’s Theater next

Saturday, and the Indiana Theater will start Wednesday | HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8 - ain A CL.

with “I Was a Male War|gi.ne and “The Wind in the WilBride.” Lyric will bring back a length film. ;

» s ” couple of reissues, “Frankenstein| «pyE RED DANUBE,” with an Meets the Wolf Man”

3 and impressive cast, is_a tale of in-| “Dracula's Daughter,” on a dou- trigue and violence in new Vienna. | ble thrill-bill. ‘Walter Pidgeon and Peter LawOut of the downtown area, ford are cast as. British Army ofCoronet Theater will start with|ficers working with the Russians Somerset Maugham’s “Quartet” |in repatriating Europeans to their next Saturday, and the Esquire/own countries. Janet Leigh is an will show a French film with unfortunate Russian girl fighting English sub-titles, “Symphonie|to keep out of Russia. Pastorale.” e night an electrician who was “Quartet” is four Maugham|cast as a nun, the characters 89| qiipposed to follow her with a short stories, each telling a dif-| through a series of climaxes until ont became so intrigued with the ferent tale, and each with a dif-|the film reaches its ironic end. Swanson charms that he forgot to ferent cast and production staff. . 8 = .» {move the light when she moved “Symphonie Pastorale,” with a] CARY GRANT, a French Army and he just sat there, mouth ajar. cast headed by Michele Morgan officer marries an American Gloria noticed the light wasn’t and Pierre Blanchar; tell the) WAC, Ann Sheridan. The only|following her. She also noticed moving Andre Gide story of an|laws applying to foreigners, who/thst the electrician was redaustere Bwiss pastor and his com- had married Americans overseas haired. In a quick ad lib, she passion for a poor, blind orphan|and desired to enter this country,/called to her off stage butler: “It's girl. The pastor's dual life of duty| were for war brides. By the time|dark in here. Please light the to his family and congregation the comedy reaches its end, Cary|iamp with the red shade.” and to the girl turns the bene-|can truthfully say, “I Was a Male red-haired ele¢trician came factor into a victim of his own|War Bride.” poor judgment. s =» se =» = LYRICS double bill, “Franken“ICHABOD and Mr. Toad,” the|stein Meets the Wolf Man” and | latest from the Disney cartoon|“Dracula’s Daughter,” bath fol-{Holm probably will do another studios, combines the two favorite|lowed in the wake of the Franken-|film together as a result of their tales, one American and one Eng-|stein and Dracula films’ initialiclick in “Champagne for Caesar.” lish, with Bing Crosby. and Basil popularity. Lon Chaney, Rathboné serving as narrators.|Lugosi and Gloria Holden are Price in the same picture is givBased on “The Legend of Sleepy|cast in the chiller roles of the two(ing Hollywood a laugh. It's’ alHollow,” the story of Ichabod|films. XY most as big as Madison Square

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[son pictures add up to 63.

sweet. I'm drunk. I shoot

| thing I've done in 63 pictures. | Believe me, I do everything except ride a bicycle around a | chandelier.” { Gloria tells a wonderful story

and the show went one.

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T he glamour “treatment for | Pa Kettle Go to Town” with fancy fast. The light returned to the set hairdo, lipstick, and eyeshadow,

a. a But after one take on a hot locaRONALD Colman and Celeste(tion set, Marjorie looked like the

Bela The office of soap tycoon Vincent|quip

By Erskine Johnson

8—Gloria. Swanson was sitting beside i her swimming pool looking like a starlet. The girl's youth is amaz|lows,” the color-creation is a full ing. She said she was more excited about her film comeback in { “Sunset Boulevard” than any movie she’s ever made—and the Swan.

“I do everything,” she said, “I'm silly, foolish, arrogant,

i man and I do an impersonation [Garden plus a round desk the of Charley Chaplin. I do every- [size of a basketball court.

Someone took a look at the big

|gigantic desk and cracked that a certain big movie executive would commit suicide if he saw it. Art Linkletter came back fast Along with Ethel Barrymore, SOU her TV show in New, York.| ii auc ia'sh ot be bad?

» ” . RAYMIDDLETON, who played opposite Ethel Merman in “Annie Get Your Gun,” is the likely candidate for the Pinza role in the road company of “South Pacific.” Nelson Eddy turned it down with the explanation that he wouldn’t follow Pinza. 4 8 =» MARJORIE MAIN gets the “Ma and

in of old and was rushed to

the* makeup department for ree irs. :

But not before she had time to

“I'm just like a. One

take and I look rn an pumpkin again.” 2 = :