Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1950 — Page 28

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Weill's ‘Down in the Valley,’ G.&S. ‘Trial by Jury’ Lauded

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By Henry Butler GREENCASTLE, Mar, 17—DePauw University’s Little reater last night opened a three-day run of & lively operatic program. The double bill, to be repeated tonight and tomorrow, | includes Kurt Weill's “Down in the Valley,” which had its (world premiere at Indiana University in July, 1048, and

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a rl that Gilbelt = el Lewis’ Bullock will direct the | Ty perenna, iT Y| 20.voice American Male Chorus Jury. | of Kalamazoo, | Mich., in a con-.

cert fomorrow “might in Caleb Mills Hall of Shortridge. High School.

two items, “Down in the Valley” comes off better. It's closer to us. It has more immediate appeal

than the “Trial by Jury” sophis- : a ticated satire on Victorian law | Times Amusement courts. . lock | So it's not surprising that Cloc . George Gove, musical director; CALEB MILLS WALL

stage director due f5aivaraity Glee Club, in.

and their student actor-singers achieved a more effective production of the Weill ‘than of the Gilbert and Sullivan.

yo 1c “An Inspector Calls,” 30 WORLD WAR MEMORIAL New York Piano and String Quartet presented by the Ensemble

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LA " Music Bociety in concert, at 8 0, SOMEWHAT handicapped by a CIRCLE » a y 3 “Sword In the Desert.” with Dana small stage and rather inade nvard in the Dasari. with Dana quate lighting, the “Down in the 2:45. 6:28 - i” = Valley” cast nevertheless made “Woman with Ilda . y Lupino and gL uf, at 1:10, the tragedy of Brack Weaver.and' ¢50 and 830 Jennie Parsons come alive, ESQUIRE } . An Aet of Murder," with Fredric I must add the criticism that Mare and Florence Eldridge, at Arnold Sundaard’s libretto fails! & @ a d 10 to make clear why Brack was INDIANA | sent to the gallows for killing in| Dear Wile." with Wiillam Holden, self-defense, especially with so at 11:10. 1:55. 4:40. 7:25 and 10 “Radar Secret Service,” with John many witnesses present at the Howe dg hi Ale "Vices at.12.80, fatal Saturday night dance. It's 3.35, 6:25 and 9.10 true that Brack killed ‘the son of KEITR'S “Johnny Roliday,'

with William 1:45, 4:35 7:25 and

a powerful mortgage-grabbing!. money-lender. But the should make the point clearer, | If the victim's father controlled; local justice, that also is an item recurrent in American folklore, gut} land should be: included in the libretto. That vagueness of the) Mn truder in the Dust,” with David plot gives a kind of shadowy| Tih &37 end doe on UT effect to the entire opera, ed LYRIC

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{Aschmann, as the leader-narrator, | last night seemed to me the most | (UP) — baritone voice and good stage! their Irish tempers ups-learn te. presence. William Lockwood, as day whether they can keep on! Brack, is pleasant of voice and “dishing up suds.” The skirted convincing in manner. Anna Lee bartenders were confident that Schmidt, as Jennie (Jean Foerster Judge Chester P. O'Hara would; ‘will sing the role tonight, and Miss issue a permanent injunction] Schmidt again tomorrow), acts against a five-year-old law mak-!| well and has some fine tones in ing it illegal for women to tend her singing when she doesn’t yield bar in cities of 50,000 population to vibrato, {or more. Frank Wyka, as Jennie's father, | and Ted Blum, as villainous Thomas Bouche, are the other principals. i The chorus, partly rec ruited| trom Or. Gove's DePauw Choir,| sang with good tonal quality but} occasional hesitancy about pitch. {They probably could have done| better with orchestral rather than. plano accompaniment. Principals in “Trial by Jury”

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{is afraid of himself. There's Ja full-length mirror. in his dressing room on the set of “Alias Mike Fury” at RKO. Vie cov-| ered the bottom two-thirds of it with paper so he can't see himself while lying down (his favorite {between scenes position). He exlainped: “I'm repulsive, I {hate to look at myself. I even find Ht repulsive to talk about myself. ”

- BEING reluctant to talk about himself is a switch from the prewar Mature, who did nothing else but. But it's becoming. DeMille, he thinks, should have a special Academy award for his long list of box-office hits and for being “Mr. Hollywood.” Vic plays a gambler about to be

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