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Samuel Spewack Comedy Not Logical but the Fun Fun Is Swell Henry Butler

By “Two ‘Blind Mice,” the Wie s April production; has a good blend of plausibility and insanity.

like furniture polish or a pousse cafe. Author Samuel Spewack didn't attempt to shake it up into any kind of logical conclusion, which is Just as as well i in a play deliriously satirizingl ~— mm car Washington bureaucracy. (Mix Kin Hower... He isn't concerned with a Mis johnson

message. The audience at last EES i night's opening needed no mes-|3 Visiter ie sage beyond the refreshing and Wie: long-suspected truth: Back of most solemn pronouncements by MS ohsl

roh, USA Lt. Col Washington politicians are hs ra N Lew Am ments of comedy. SHY Meg...

rnest To make this clear,

Edward Gi Norw . Mary Elizabeth Kirk Pr Tnreadwaite Dept.

Raries Eire Mr. wl Jamison’ Senator Kruge:

Gr arl —emhardtl Youn, ‘Rick ok Val Dyke Spindel] (1

wack puts in a decaying George- ul McNamara | town mansion a bureaucratic’™MaR oi... Ben Janney orphan, the Office of Medicinal Wonderful in their, incredible]

Herbs. The OMH, which flour-/roles. Mrs. Hazen (the program| ished in Teddy Roosevelt's time, Says) was in the Civic's “Arsenic| has been terminated but never ‘and Old Lace” back in '43, be-| officially closed. Two elderly| fore my Times time. I'd say she! ladles, Mrs. Letitia ‘Turnbull hasn't got the arsenic entirely] (widow of OMH's founder) and Out of her system, and it's a perMiss Crystal Hower, carry on thé suasive drug. work of sorting and classifying Charles Dosch, as neWsman herbs. Thurston (did Mr. Spewack name

the character after the rnTR cian?) acts with customary force sist by subletting rooms and run- and skill, dominating well with-| ning a parking lot. Into their, out ranting.

Mary Elizabeth Kirk, as Karen “peculiar tranquillity, a bit remi-! . . niscent of “Arsenic and Old Norword, Thurston's ex-wife, is

Lace,” comes a bouncing news- well cast, as is Ernest Grosdidier,

as Karen's fiance. aperman of the sort, I might Pole who hounces more often on| Jack Hatfield has done a good stage and screen than in actual] {Job with this laugh-provoker, and ity rooms. {so—has Fredric Rhoades, scene ey !designer, who ‘doubles in Army This glib character sees Prac- prass at Lt. Col. Robbins of the tical-joke possibilities on a cos- ygAF. mic scale. He gets State, War| The lively show will remain on and yy Ive & hep] Ve" through through next Saturday. mention r|

fiance, involved in a hoax to end si" hoaxes. “OMH"” temporarily [Feeney Asked to Attend becomes “ISSOMHC,” top-secret Housing Conference

agency-of-“herbological warfare.” Mr. Spewack’s point simply is, Mayor. Feeney has been rethat such a thing might happen, quested to attend a housing con-| granted recent and current Wash-| ‘erence with President Truman ington “red-tape confusion. For an¢ Housing Expediter Tighe ‘EA

two acts, he almost persuades Woods in Washington, D. C,

it could happen. If Act 1III| Thursday. Tou: on that's because the The conference will be attended |

by mayors of ‘“representative”| me. was deliberately too fan-|°Y. J p | phe in Acts I and IL . [cities * throughout the Rut the fun ie swell while it's Housing conditions will be dis-

oing on. Margaret Coppock, as| cnsged in preparation for congresgoing na and P Florence, S10" sional hearings on the subject. Hazen, as Miss- “Hower; both- are - vy

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Dance

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Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, will be heard in concert at 3 | A p. m. tomorrow in the Murat Julian, id Theater as the final artist of the

season on the Martens Concert

Series.

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CIVIC we Blind Mice,” comedy. at : MURAT :

eath Salesman.’ Thomas Mitchell at 2:30 rf 8 or

CIRCLE Perfect Strangers, with Ginger R s and Dennis Moran, at 11 Cade "4.38, 7.28, 10:15 and “Father Makes Good,” with Raynond Walburn, at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 9:10 1 ; ESQUIRE “Peter Jobsisen;: with sary L ooper and Ann Harding at 2, . 7:38 and 10:25

“If 1 Had A Million,” with W. C. Plelds and Charles Laughton. at 3:35, 6:25 and 9:10,

INDIANA

“Cinder ella, animated cartoon feature, at 50. 2:05. 4:15. 6:20. 8:39 and 30 1 “Heart Fund” show: screen stage, at 12

and Junior City Slickers on nifdnight KEITH'S “Ma and Pa Kettie Ga to To with Marjorie Main Rd ; Percy "Ki. bride, at 12:15. 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 and

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‘Tarnished,”

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‘And Baby Makes Three,” with ‘Robert Young and Baryars Hale, at 1% A 3:26, 6:25 and 9:2

1 It To The Judge.” with Rosalind “Russell and Robert Cummings at 11, 1:50, 4:58, 7:57 and 10:59

LYRIC

The Destis, on stage, at 1:15, 3:48, 521 and. 3104 i

“Whirlpool,” ith Gene Tierney and Righard Conte. at 11:38. 2:11, 4:44, 7:27 and 10.

DANCE: TONIGHT

At THE BEAUTIFUL; NEW

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On his second Indianapolis visit 5% {this year, David Lloyd, tenor, |§

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| EMERSON “Guilty of Treason.’ UNTAIN

“Sliver River" and * Tune Lanes Gf

“The Hasty. Heart" SQUARE— "Dakota Lil" “Blue Sra of Kentucky,” plus toon Rev

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| A—"Malaya’ and “Tension.” | No | aTON Tuene 0 Clock Hah sol wi RE “All the King's Men" and De = av a an, of st wr and oo +h Lust for Gold" and ‘Frontiers ve room.” | a -— | ke ~ Joon, & : Dark” Glor = “Little Women" and ‘‘Beyond d n cA og 1 " | ppiiiunde BY va” and : eT ¢ One False Step” and “In | CINEMA" “Mrs. Mike" Ma Toe Hasty oid RAIL Malaya” and “Tenston.' Heart." TAL—""Montana™ and “A Pon ous | CORONET—"Pinky” and “Bverybody Does Sony 1 ar =n cn entine’ ad ag RR "‘Desperadoes™ and ""Sher1 — m: {PAs Ml hag utpost in Morocco” and “It Hap-

pens very Spring.’ Z— Montana” and “Port of

Voki oMalare aod akota LP tonigh Kiss

Screams” Key to the City” of ay

Yor EEDWAY—"Malava A “Brimstone”

' and ; Tylon." and

{Musicale yesterday afternoon in st. CLAIR— “Twelve O'Clock High"

{Ayres’ auditorium. ~

ST Mr. Lloyd, last heard here Jan.

128 and 29 with Fabien Sevitzky, {the Symphony and Clarence

Elbert's Maennerchor in the UPTOW

{memorable Goethe program, iterday gave further proof {musicianship and vocal quality. He has a rare understanding of M style. With consunimate skill, he m

can project a brilliant and exact- PENDLETON oF ive

ing aria like Handel's "Sound an Alarm.” And he can turn, as he did later in yesterday's program, with equally impressive effect, to !Gabriel Faure's long-phrased,

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lemotionally difficult “Apres un reve.” In a recital of many moods,

Mr. Lloyd demonstrated the great truth I wish student singers I've heard in.the last few years would please note: Singing must have good musical background. Sense, feeling and technique—not easily lacquired—are more than half the

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