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SECOND SECTION

SATURDAY, OCT. I5, 1949

Murat

“"CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA™

Loew's

"JOLSON SINGS AGAIN"

Marat : EDWIN BILTCLIFFE

Murat Theater Schedules - Season’s Grand Opening

‘Pagliacci’ and ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ Starting Martens Series

By HENRY

BUTLER

Monday the Wagner Opera Company Will Produce

IF YOU'VE been trying to reach RI-1583, the Murat’s box-office number, you won't need reminding that next week is the season's grand opening.

You know the list by heart, but here goes for a final itemized mention:

Monday: Wagner Opera Co. in “Pagliacci” and “Cavalleria Rusticana,” opening the

Martens Series.

Tuesday: Norman Granz' “Jazz at the Philharmonic,” with Ella Fitzgerald as his

year’s headliner. Thursday: “Inside U. S. A.” starring] Beatrice Lillie and running through matinee and evening Saturday. | Sunday, Oct. 23: Piano recital at 3 p. m. by, Edwin Biltcliffe, the Indianapolis Symphody’s| pianist. To this list should be added the one-night engagement of “Brigadoon,” the Alan Lerner-Fred-erick Loewe masterpiece of musical fantasy, in IU auditorium in Bloomington Monday, Oct. 24. If Bloomington people are correct in hopefully assuring me that Indiana 37 will be open between Martinsville and Bloomington in time for that event, you won't have to worry about creeping up long hills and around curves coming and going behind over-laden semi-trailers. And before we go on to further details, here's a reminder of the season's first concert by the Hoosier Symphony and Chorale at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Canterbury College auditorium, Danville. Thomas Wilson, back at Canterbury after graduate music study at the University of Michigan, has the lively amateur outfit which did such {i ‘esting work a couple of seasons ago. Also on the college-and-university circuit is the season's opening concert by Ernst Hoffman and the IU Symphony in the Bloomington auditorium

at 3 p. m. Sunday, Oct. 23, which will feature an negie grant for this important experiment?) just| American premiere of “Townpiper Music” by Rich-|

ard Mohaupt, contemporarv American composer. ® = = : BEATRICE LILLIE alone is worth the price of admission to “Inside U. 8, A.”—a fact which must make Press Agent Joe Flynn very happy. It isn’t too often that publicity and newspaper

men see eye to eye.

Besides Miss Lillie, the animated musical travelog by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz will present Lew Parker as chief supporting come-| dian and such items of interest as the dances by Helen Tamiris, choreographer for ‘Annie Get Your Gun” and “Up In Central Park.” The show definitely is one of this season's biggest deals. = ” THIS COLUMN already has mentioned the excellence of Charles Wagner's touring operas—undoubtedly the best touring performances oitside the Met's huge and heavy special-train expeditions. I might add that both Mascagni and Leoncavallo are at their best in the familiar operatic double-bill. Whatever 19-Century Italian absurdities both operas contain, the music in both wears extremely well.

- EJ os LOOKING OVER a dog-eared scrapbook, I find that “Brigadoon” did right poorly here at the Murat last May. That still remains a mystery, in view of the oft-repeated success of barrel-bottom-scrapers like “Blossom Time” or “The Student Prince.” Where's the precise line between popular receptivity and resistance to something new? In the

interests of science; I'd like to see “Rose Marie” |

and “South Pacifi¢” plunked into the Murat in one week (’spose we could get a Guggenheim or Car-

to see what happened to box-office.

“Brigadoon” is that rare thing in show business

—something entirely different. It's one of the most consistently beautiful musical shows I've ever seen, 3

Indiana Roo f i WILL BACK ORCHESTRA

| Lyric TEX RITTER

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Real Laughton Blusters, Too

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 15 (UP) —The mean men of the screen all insist that in private life they're too gentle to swat a fly. The great lovers all claim to stay home nights and play with their children. But the blustering, untidy Charles Laughton admits that,

in real life, he's blustering and untidy.

“Every time we get a new vil- | lain in Hollywood,” Mr. Laugh- |

ton rumbled, “they put out reams of stories about him in the fan magazines. They want to prove that he’s really homeloving and kind to children. “This frequently- may be true. But I don’t ‘think anybody believes it or cares.” » n o FOR YEARS after he appeared as “Captain Bligh,” Mr. Laughton said, he tried to persuade people he was really a gentle, quiet chap. “They couldn’t have been less interested, or less convinced,” he said. “On the screen I generally have been cast, mostly by my choice, as a wicked, blustering or untidy character. Now I am ready to admit that in real life Charles Laughton is all of those things. “I often bluster. I find it gets me my own way. I am notoriously wicked, especially to bores.

And everybody knows I'm only

happy when I can take my coat and tie and shoes off.” 8 o » IF HE were to let himself go, he added he could be a lot more evil in real life than he really is. “I purposely go in for villainous roles on the screen,” he said, “to find an outlet for the evil aspects of my character.

I think we're lucky to have a second chance They appear in my own life conto see and hear it in one year, even though this| siderably diluted. This makes

time we have to do some traveling.

life a lot easier on my wife.”

: Esqui re LOVER'S RETURN

* Murat JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC

Murat

"INSIDE

Indica "ROPE OF SAND"

“Jolson Sings Again’

le Open at Loew's

‘Easy Living’ and ‘Rope of Sand’ Among Attractions on Downtown Screens By R. K, SHULL MORE JOLSON, pro football, and a South African

|diamond hunt will head the screen offerings coming to the| {downtown theaters. Lyric Theater will bring Tex Ritter land company on stage starting Thursday. Openings are: “Jolson Sings Again” (Loew's, Satur-| \day), “Easy Living” (Circle, Thursday) and ‘Rope of | Sand” (Indiana, Wednesday). , "i “Rope of Sand,” action | Ritter will conduct a daily drama.of the South African dia-

{ show entitled Tex mond fields. Burt Lancaster, Paul amateur Show. ents i Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter| | Ritter’s Musical Round-up in ad- y Se an fight over the same

dition to his regular Stage per- thing, diamonds. Lancaster disformances. Anyone with vocal or

4 . covers a new diamond area and instrumental talent in the West-\4 i ot sneak some of the gems

ern vein is eligible to compete.| +" oc Africa. while the trio of|

Daily winners of the contest willl antagonists chase him to a final be pitted against each other onip ody show-down.

the final night of Ritter’s stay) a here, with the winner receiving ai «gASy LIVING,” has profes-one-week engagement at theigiona) football as a background Lyric with the next stage attrac- for the love problems of Lucille tion. |Ball, Sonny Tufts, Lizabeth Scott

"an _,jand Victor Mature. Lloyd Nolan “JOLSON SINGS AGAIN"(5xe5 3 sideline seat to their quarbrings back most of the principals|ye)s worried only about the men of the original biographical film, | po must make win at the rough with the exception of Barbara|,ng tumble sport. Hale, who replaces Evelyn Keyes un as one of Jolson’s wives. OUT OF the downtown area, Larry Parks continues in the|Coronet Theater will show a| title role, with Tamara Shayne|British film, “The Girl. in the and Ludwig Donath portraying|Painting,” starting tomorrow, and! his parents. William Demarest Esquire Theater will bring in a| and Bill Goodwin also do repeats.| French film, “A Lover's Return,” Taking up where “The Jolson Friday. {Story” left off, the new film| The Coronet film stars Mai

showing him during his World Beatty and Guy Rolfe filling other War II camp work and during his/ leading roles. return to the movies. “A Lover's Return” deals with 2 =» = {the complications arising from CORINNE CALVET, Holly-the old French custom of arwood newcomer, is the only wom-{ranged marriages.

U.S. A"

Starring in attractions coming to the local stage and screen will be: Evelyn Tanner as Lola in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” on a double opera bill with "Pagliacci," starting at 8:30 p. m. Monda at the Murat Theater; Eunice Clark, vocalist with the Will Bac Orchestra, at the Indiana Roof for dances Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19, 21 and 22; Louis Jouvet in "A Lover's Return" (Esquire, Friday); Victor Mature and Lucille Ball in "Easy Living" (Circle, Thursday); Larry Parks and Barbara Hale in “Jolson Sings Again" (Loew's, Saturday); Tex Ritter and his horse; White Flash, on stage at the Lyric starting Thursday; Mai Zetterling in "The Girl in the Painting" (Coronet, tomorrow); Ray Brown, bassist, with Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic, at the Murat, starting -at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday; Edwin Biltcliffe, pianist, in recital, at the Murat Theater, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 23; Burt Lancaster, Corinne Calvet and Paul Henreid in "Rope of Sand" (Indiana, Wednesday), .and Beatrice Lillie in "Inside U.S. A." on stage at the Murat Theater, Thursday, Friday and next Saturday, with a matinee Saturday.

Fred Cherishes His $60 Hat

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 15—Fred MacMurray wears a handsome Panama hat for most of his scenes in “Borderline.” He was mighty particular about the hat, cherished it carefully through the picture and locked it in his dressing room every night.. He took some kidding about it, and finally came up with an explanation:* “First movie job I ever had was an extra in a picture starring Dixie Lee (Crosby) and Sue Carrol (Ladd). They told me I'd have to have a straw hat. I bought one for 50 cents. q this one, too, onl hin D 80 bucks.” : ’ y HEDY LAMARR is just about ss = set to ag. 3 Broadway play Li N. MAISON, the co-|Producer Alexander Ince.... Bh sae Larry Potter's|kids at Dick Haymes’ radio show Supper Glub: are giving him the bobby -sox “Pd love to give you my im. {treatment Sinatra used to get.... 2 + | Margaret Whiting’s first hillbilly pression of Alan Ladd but Imi ecord “Slipping Around,” has afraid I'd catch cold if I stripped |p oo banned by the networks. But 19 the walst it’s a hit on the juke boxes. ” » on

IT’S producer Murray Lerner's| a ” rodticers. ap story about the little Russian boy| SL LLPENDENY ere an ® who spent his afternoons watch-|

in the Tim Holt cowboy series, He's already an RKO star in the studio’s Flame series. » » .

; i ictures brings Al up to the present time Zetterling of recent Swedish and ino western films. One night his|Usual problem. In casting p via a series of “new-old” songs, British film fame, with Robert| poe said they had 2 high for| they are not concerned with what

stars will bring in customers but 7 ra “ ,/ which ones will keep people away ah it a mankerin for borscht »|fTOm the theater. FE) Current lst of ftars who are RKO IS talking about making poison at the box office is star-12-year-old Gary Gray a fixture tling.

|dinner.