Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1949 — Page 38

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Charles Laughton, Assorted Composers Also Slated

Henry Butler Or Lorie and assorted som posers will rae it out on oal stage tis week. ; The Shakespeare will be Margaret Webster's touring

of “The Taming of the Shrew,” booked at the| |}

Murat at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow. day, Aa Lugo Brogrien, als ot the Mury: neat Thuis: y be an evening of dra- ; mipme - matic readings from thn arene _ind_equ he

k The ‘Bible, Shakespeare an dittuck Ther give Shaknapeats In

With the Sonja Henle troupe seen Shakespeare since Huck still cavorting on the Coliseum Finn's time. Evidently it's a labor fice through Dec, 5, live entertain-/of love that shouldn't be lost. I ment this week will include an/understand that management fees Indianapolis Philharmonic con-/and overhead cut down the take, cert, a Jordan opera premiere and so that even Miss Webster herself bas a comparatively small bucket Philharmonic, that fine and of clams at the 4nd of sach week. memorial

Nor FORGETTING the Sym-

.g0/Phony’s reprise of last night's] ’ Mills Hall, Shortridge, at 8:30 ogram at 3 p. m. today in the| Indi. Murat, let's move on to Charles| | |

ana University School of Music in| --U6hton. His one-man show| |

I suct Thursday evening should be a gton, will one of {virtuoso performance. The man

1s & great actor—greater than Hollywood distortion might let us believe, Jordan College of Music, sprueor and livelier than ever this fere of/Year, is putting on Gian Carlo Gardner Read's Fantasy for Viola Menottl’s opera, “The Old Maid and Orchestra. He will also play|and the Thiet,” Friday and SatPaul Hindemith's “Music for urday evenings in the Odeon, that M : Mr. Hoffman and. the 'ple-slice building at 108 E North orchestra will round out the eve- St. ith Brahms’ First Pra With Leola Turner and. ex-Met

Julius Huehn directing, the proMiss Webster's «Shrews is be-| duction should be one of the most

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ing ad ised as the the original of | Important local ventures this ; Me, ” a little season. a. the ory SATURDAY, the Athenaeum of a de Mille (Players will do Elmer Rice's Cecil “Counsellor at Law” at the usual ght. The Taming Athenaeum hour of 8 p. m. For foes | the first time Walter Russell, forfull of support. fmerly of the Civic and Butler

Bowl, who now is helping Dean should Wired Ban's IU music school words n opera productions, of Mise Web-|_) "0 cechnical director, -| Grapevine reports say the Athenaeum outfit this season will | surpass’ all previous seasons, | They're “solving technical prob- [ lems. They're preparing for speedier operation and a fuller season. Like other local amateur groups, they're taking on a bigger share of the job of feeding theahungry lis.

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High billing in current and coming local stage and music pre-

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sentations will go to: Charles Laughton, at the Murat Theater at

m. Thursday in a program of readings and character por-

trayals; Margie Hart, Glenn Anders, Lynn Bari and Sam Levene in “Light Up the Sky," comedy, slated for the Murat Thursday, Friday _and Saturday, Dec. 8, 9 and ‘10, with a matinee Saturday; Terry |

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 (UP)— Little Nick Cravat and his big pal, Burt Lancaster, have let it get-out that they started rehears-

in a new Warner Bros. picture. Considering their relatively]

shorter spell in the movies, that side, even for Hollywood.

hearsal at the time. Presumably,

cast in the film recently. If the show, “The Hawk and the thriller its producers say it'll be, however, Lancaster and Cravat didn’t start preparing themselves for their roles a minuté too soon. reputed to be more acs tion in this flick than In any other since the lively days of Douglas Fairbanks’ knows he was the handiest man ever on a chandelier. The Lancaster - Cravat dramatics school was born when the

youngsters went to summer camp

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_.. Paul Castle and Elizabeth Kennedy in the Sante Claus sequence of Sonja Henie's 1950 Ice Revue, at the Coliseum through Dec, 5; Ernst Hoffman, conductor of the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra, in concert at Caleb Mills Hall of Shortridge High School Tuesday, and David Lewis in “Taming of the Shrew,” at the Murat for one performance at 8:30 p. m. fomorrow.

With Symphony:

Civic Theater Names ‘The Hasty Heart’ Cast)

Cast for “The Hasty Heart,” Civie Theater December produc “tion, has been announced by Jack L. Hatfield, director. In the play, which will open Dec. 9, will be: Tom Freebairn, Michael Gerard, Arthur Zinkin Jr., Walter Woodson, John R. Wilson, M. R. Gustin, Mary Bray, Jim ~ {Jarrett and Alistair Stuart.

Tryouts Are Set |For ‘Pinocchio’ Tryouts for “Pinocchio,” second Junior Civic play of the season, will be held from 3:30 to 5 p. m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Civic Theater. The play will be presented Dec. 27, 28, 20 and 30, under the direction of Mrs. John C. Kinghan

wit her fuctordus. and Mrs. Owen C. Pohlmann. Jae Andre Kostelanetz, and |PLEDGED AT PURDUE the Indianapolis Symphony Or- | LAFAYETTE, Nov. 26—Her-

bert E. Allender, 5723 Beechwood adie 0 Tustday, Dec. _6, at Ave, Indianapolis, has been

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HOLEYWOOT Nov. 26 — Publicity-conscious stars are worth their weight i groenbacks a the box offen, And some of Hollywood's top names know as much about the publicity game as the boys who are paid to dream up

publicity. She always calls the publicity boys with something like this:

“We'll: be at the airport at 4:15 this afternoon. The plane doesn’t take off until 5. That leaves|

a photographer.”

always in the papers, and most of it is his own doing. ta

Joan Crawford is one of the most press-wise stars in town. She has always watched her publicity P's and Q's. put I'll never forget the opening of | features. : a swank toy shop in Beverly| Clark once droveup to a H Hills, The place was crowded| lywood in a crimson with stars. But Joan stole the| hued Motel T. A hundred camshow by playing with the little] eras recorded the event. monkey the organ grinder had The parking attendant brought along. When she put the| stepped up: “Park it, Mr, monkey on her head, the cam-| Gable?” § eras clicked. Her parting shot| * «geen it” sald Clark, and for quotation was: gave it to the boy on the spot. “I always wear a fnonkey ini J.'p ol te pane mil hair when attendifig toy Shop| "yop not overlook Maria Mone mings. nn tez, who should have won an LAST winter, when it snowed Gace? for keeping her name in the in California, the M-G-M pub- nes. lcity department received a tele-| Maria once had to take a bube phone call. ble bath for a scene in a picture. “Hello,” sald a familiar volce |She insisted that the publicity de at the other end, “this is Errol partment make something out of Flynn. Im snowed in, but I've |it. got a helicopter coming up to fly me down to the studio. Thought you boys might think it worth a picture,” “Worth a picture!” yelled the publicity man. “Hot flashbulbs! It’s worth a hundred. We'll make

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Twenty reporters were In‘vited to the set while “No Ad-

also insisted that every worker on the set turn his Back as she stepped in and out of the tub,

Come on down, son, the works.” He was right. The pictures of Flynn's flight made Page 1. Errol, in case you've never realized it, loves his publicity. Greatest example of one whe says, “I hate publicity,” is Greta Garbo. Which’ just proves that she’s one of the smartest. By deliberately doing things to avoid publicity, she gets much more of it. And when she holds her-hands up| in front of her face to foil the cameraman, she’s peeking through her fingers to be sure he gets the

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