Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1949 — Page 16

ing. of The Shrew— Show Spicier “And Funnier

- Margaret Webster Company Offers Lively Murat Show

By Henry Butler

$5 last night, you're out of luck until the next visit of Margaret Webster's company. It's a tragedy the comedy couldn’t have stayed longer. ‘For Miss Webster's: production gave it the liveliest, least inhibited treatment I've yet seen “The Taming” get. What's: more, this produc-ii,, Giizabethan multiple sense of tion had listeners in continu- both words (even “Hamlet” con-

If you missed Toe To of the Shrew" at the Murat] °

a au in the midst of tragedy). kind . of English-class laughter! gome 350 years after its pre-| Polos draws In “Hamlet.” Iti ere the play is a bright and was nervous, irrepressible laugh- wonderful challenge to censors. ter stimulated by the outrageous-|ni.q Webster's players brought ly refined puns and re exceed out all the meaning in a big, ener=e gags Bhakespeare excelled cotic youthful sort of way. That

se xe {the way people still talk when the Miss s players prob-/censors aren't close. ably did the right thing in art - fully humming a few bars here| Mix-uj, " Mentity and there from Cole Porters) The Play lswt just gags and “Kiss Me, Kate.” |situations. Besides the mix-up of That doubtless was less $0; 4 yd, which Shakespeare's + Srouse interest in Shakespeare's y,qience dearly loved, it sets forth play than to acknowledge grati-/some 16th Century notions on tude to Mr, Porter for de-mum-inow 5 wife should behave. How

ous laughter—and not the tains verbal duels and risque puns

was a joy to hear, because that's!

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Producer Says Deanna ph Must Take Off 30 Pounds = oly “Erskine : HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Yov, 25 Jaclusfvely Yous: Joe Pasternak, who produced Deanna Durbin's greatest hits, asserts

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he's ready and willing to star Her in a big M-G-M musical. But he sayas®*She'll have to lose 30 pounds first.”

Deanna is on a diet. Two and'two make four. BD ng We nu Jie dow Lunds pest at Parsmerst Wil ve Usjon nic Sta- 4 tion” and willy be on er location .in Chicago's Union|intg MGM for a role in “Three | “ee-izk opens Oven 1:30

Station. The studio wanted Words.” “It's a very diffi

“nn I . characterization,” says ul: |] Mary Martin Star of ‘SOUTH PACIFIC’ and" Shao tm Cemtes Stal but “T piay he role of myseit” Alan Most Beloved Matodios In Mr. Dawson, a member of the | =o 3 officials sald they could|Jones may get a warbling spot In| wpe Great Victor Herbert” | Berkshire now in res- 3 . 4 < the same film, " not control the 24-hour-a-day “Pally Enchanting.”—N. ¥. TIMES, {dents ;at Indiana University, (o 4. "y, Chicago there's a two- 8 8 "Jeanette MagD | will be soloist with Ernst Hoff- 3 half hour break in the] NOW that M-G-M is releasing, “Monte Carle” | man. and the Indianapolis Phil: | gyy,,, its World War II epic, “Battleharmonic Orchestra for two : ’ “Enjoyable Musieal From

compositions. for viela and string orchestra when the Philharmonic gives its first con- | cert of the season at 8:30 p. m. today in Caleb Mills Hall,

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ground,” it is time to tell this The next Esther Williams pic- | ture, “Tahiti.” has been retitled story about Robert Pirosh, who,

|“Music on the Water,” so. there|conceived the idea for the fim will be no ‘mistake about it being while he was a sergeant, huddled an E. W. film. Much of the story|in a foxhole at Bastogne. ! will be filmed on location in Ha-| After his d , . Pirosh| wail. ; sought the help of Gen. McAuliffe, . 8» lthe hero of Bastogne, who re-| HUMPHREY BUGART'S smile plied “Nuts” to the German comalways seems to come out a leer: mander's demand for surrender. It was particularly evident in The general enthusiastically ap-|

mitying “The Taming of the Shrew” from V The play: is infinitely spicier and funnier than any naughty! farce you may have seen in past

serious the Bard was about hogs,

notions we'll never know,

Last night you couldn't hear the! imagined scholarly footnotes .for, the real guffaws. Apparently no-| | body, including me, thought the

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seasons. It's sharp and keen in ’ Bard coull be #0 smart fu writing

for modern stage. That's a triumph for Miss| Webster and her players. They've done & big item in comedy. And they've done it mainly by huge energy, well directed. Credits will start with Kate (Louisa Horton, marvelously active. in her auburn vixenishness) and Petruchio (Kendall Clark, energetically more like Hollywood than like usual Broadway Shakespeare.) Gives Top Performances Those two principals set « standard for the cast, without dominating the cast. That, I may say, is not customary, but it cer-

uction. In some big-star productions of “Shrew,” the Christopher Sly role has been played down or distorted. Larry gates. in Miss Webster's company, is splendid as one famous alcoholic who didn't become anonymous. | Among the bit-part players who | contributed plenty to entertainment, Austin Briggs-Hall, as Blondello, skilled in acting and handy with the guitar, rates high

tainly does speak well for this|

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well lighted, well costumed stage (characters

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Grand Jury Calls Driver lowing with dances on Baturdey In Bus Crash Killing 16

his band will

| while playing his sweet brand of idance music. The orchestra willl

dy Howard will bring his band to the Roof for a one-night.

at the Circle Theater this month, will be playing their first dance date of the season in Indianapolis. |

You Save Boose We ng

A mother and daughter told police ias’ AS nignt their purses had been * through a window

in their home and

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the accident.

trapped the gers In the fiery wreckage.

{gers who survived, {wished to do so.

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Police found the purses in the yard outside, together with a long

bridge and burst into flames last August, killing 16 persons, {appears before a Monroe County {Grand Jury today to tell about

The jury launched an investigation of whether there was criminal negligence when the big bus plowed into a culvert. and screaming passen-

Prosecutor Robert McCrea sub|penaed Driver Wayne Cranmer lof Indianapolis and two passenand invited other survivors to testify if they

a scene I was watching for his fad Pirosh’s plans to show new -film>“In A Lonely Place.” GI viewpoint at Bastogne but I asked him dbout it. added that he could be of little Bogle smiled--1 mean leered— help. and sald: | “After all,” the general point | “It's my upper lip. It got a ed out to Pirosh, “you know | {shell splinter when I was in the more sbout it than I do. You | Navy in World War I. A Navy were actually in a foxhole.” doctor fixed it up and I had to, Then he added, jokingly:

have it operated on later to re-| “I was there only because we move the scar tissue. When the were surrounded.” DEC. 1st

rest of my face smiles, my upper! lip just tags along.” MURAT 8:30 P.M. ONE NIGHT ONLY

80 now we both know, ' = . r } TWO more notes about Bogie:

He showed me a color photo- IN PERSON } graph of his 7T-month-old som. | CHARLES The boy is a replica of papa. ' ata he -— | LAUGHTON I asked him about the Acade-| IN HS ORE-MAN po

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