Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1950 — Page 24

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- As ously announced, ‘the jatest addition to the roster of « ¥drive-to” theaters is the Maxinkuckee Playhouse up in Culver, It will open Tuesday ‘evening with Noel Coward's

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nings for 11 weeks, In Bloomington next Thursday the Indiana University opera department will start a four-per-formance run of Sigmund Rom__berg’s operetta “The New Moon,” * which also is on the Starlight Musicals Fairgrounds series this _ Beason. Under joint supervision of de-signer-director Walter 8. Russell and conductor Ernst Hoffman, the operetta will be repeated next Friday evening’ and Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, "July 6 through 8, in East Hall,

Summer Theater—

-Drive-To’ Bills Are Promising

Maxinkuckee Playhouse Will

By Henry Butler

THIS WILL be a good entertainment week on the out-of-town |

the music school’s opera theater or the Bloomington campus.

[to Betsy.” And, of course, Lee Norvelle’ 8 about Betsy

' YU drama students will continue| 1,4 ang her winning of recogni-|

‘New Moon’ at IU

“Blithe program of plays . that will run

versity, His most recent appearance on the musical stage was in a leading role of the Bloom-! ington . premiere last month of “The Vell” new one-act operas by Bernard Rogers.

~ = = TOM BOYD and the teen-age Cock & Bull Players, whose! “Chalet” was a resounding suc-| cess laft summer, will put onl their new show, “Heavens to! Betsy,” July 12 through 16, In the IU bullding at the Fair

grounds. ; § As he did for “Chalet,” Mr, Boyd has composed .the book,

lyrics and. music for “Heavens The new show is Ross, her tragic,

their week-end performances of| i, for sewing together the first

“Peg 0’ My Heart” at the Brown|

: County Piayhowa in Nashville.

J HERE'S A WORD about the Cincinnati Summer Opera, which opens next Sunday evening in the Zoo pavilion. Season-starter will be “Samson and Delflah,” with

Winifred Heidt (familiar to Indi-

anapolis concert-goers through her appearance in Fabien Sevitzky's 1647 “Alda” production at

Butler Bowl and a subsequent

solo engagement with Clarence ’ ¥ibert's Maennerchor) and Ra- * mon Vinay. Local ticket agency for the * Cincy opera is the Gladys Alwes | Music Shoppe, 120 N. Pennsyl-| vania St.

MEANWHILE, progress on the | Starlight Musicals series includes | today's announcement of two ad- . ditional castings. June Blair, of New York, has been signed to play the part of

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1 Gretchen in “The Student Prince.”

! Miss Blair, whose experience has included seasons in the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Paper Mill Playhouse, also will appear fn the third Starlight operetta, “rhe h Red Mill,” opening July 25. Peter Smith, son of Mr. and

Pennsylva role of Capt. Tarnitz in the Rom-{'® berg operetta starting the sea-

American flag. Net proceeds from what promises to be a lively successor to “Chalet” will go to the Children's Museum. “Chaiet” jast year earned $400 for Crossroads. 1 might add here that Jack Benny's contribution to the Polio Fund, based on a percentage of his! $10,000 guarantee for the May 24 Coliseum show, was $500, {

Hollywood Stages

Jane Cowl Rites

HOLLYWOOD, June 24 (UP)— A sprinkling of movie celebrities joined other friends today services for the late Jane Cowl eulogized as “the first actress of the American theater.” Miss Cowl, 65, died Thursday of cancer of the pancreas follow-' ing surgery. Actor Gregory Peck, who | appeared with her in his tirst | Broadway play, Julia,” delivered a memorial address In a Beverly Hills funeral! parlor. ; ‘He reviewed her most triumphant roles, “Lilac Time,” “Smilin’ * “Romeo and Juliet” and

“Twelfth Night.” Miss Cowl was

“The greatest Juliet of her generation,” he said. The Rev. J. Hubert Smith, rector of the Beverly Hills All Saints’ Episcopal Church, read the Episcopal funeral service. Opera star Jarmilla Novotna sang “Abide with me.”

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Audio-Visual Classes to Open

Butler University’s annual au-dlo-visual workshop will begin tomorrow and extend through Fri-

day In Arthur Jordan Memorial

Hall, ~ Classes will meet twice dally from 8 to 10 a. m. and 1 to 3

p. Mm. Leaders of the four groups will include Dr. P. W. Holaday, director of audio-visual aids at Bhortridge High School; L. W. Wilson, director of audio-visual aids, Janesville, Wis., Junior - Senior High School; Veron McKown, director of audio-visual aids, New Albany; and Otto Kuehrmann, Manual High School.

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At far left is Vera Scammon being costumed by Mrs. Walter “Russell for the lead in the IU a "New Moon," opening T y in Bloomington. 'Josephine "Justice with pooch, is Peg in "Peg o' My Heart," playing week-ends at the Brown County Playhouse. June Blair (above) and in the circle) Peter * Smith of Indianapolis are additions to Starlight Musicals casting of "The Student Prince."

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By DONNA MIKELS MERCURY PAIRS its two top juke box draws Frankie Laine and Pattl Page—on a disc designed to double. the nickel take. Patti, who more frequently sings duets—and even quartets with herself on trick recordings, sings with Frankie on “If 1 Were You Baby, I'd Fall For Me,” and “I Love You For That” Could be this is a good idea. Add,"

lots more Laine admirers. them together and you have a sizable outlet for the double header.

But as for me I'll take my Laine solo, A second party seems to corset him. Laine's volce flows like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube. Alded and abetted it's like trying to put the paste back in. Other new releases include:

COLUMBIA With the success of “LP Dance Parade” series, Columbia is Introducing a new series of long playing’ microgrooves designed to give 15 minutes of uninterrupted dance music --on each side. First of the series will include Xavier Cugat, Les Brown, Tony Pastor and Hal Mcintyre, all featured on numbers never released before. Theme .of the new series Is “Don’t Stop the Music.” Anybody who doesn't have one of the 33 rpm. players is out in the cold this one’s exclusive on LP. Arthur Godfrey with the Cherry Sisters sings “Gone Fishin’ ”

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Like the blues? Then you'll like Oscar Mogre’s “You're Getting Tired” and\“Ill Live Again.” vHerb Jeffries teams “Call Her Savage” and “Pagan Love Song.” Ken Griffin, the darling of the organ fans, is featured on “Roses,” “Little Sally One Shoe,” “Are You Lonesome Tonight.” and “When I Lost You” | One of the best in recent Co-| lumbia releases is “I Didn't Slip ~—I Wasn't Pushed—I Fell” by

In the better Dixieland cate-| gory is Phil Napoleon's “Copen~ hagen” and “Sioux City Sue.” The little girl with the big voice, Toni Harper, sings “Choo 'n. Gum” and “Floppy,” with Mannie Klein's Dixieland Band. “Am I Blue?” asks Billie Hollday. Maybe she is but the people listening to it can't be anything but happy. » . - RCA VICTOR -- This is one that will keep running through your mind. “You Are My Love,” — by Wayne King. Fran Warren catches the ear with her bluesy “Cloudy Morning.” Second side is “When We're »

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Here's an old and little known Jerome Kern, “Babes in the Woods,” performed by Hugo Winterhalter. Vaughn Monroe, the man with the nose with the voice, sings

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“Our Very Own” and “Violins caress 08 Te id From Nowhere.” Dick Leibert, organist of Radio alk. 48," with ® adolgh Scots City Music Hall, features such| $f and loge °F 49% 40 tunes as “Stardust,” “Smoke Gets wit Th. Tgane.c I Cornel in Your Eyes” and other oldies OBS in “Organ Encores.” 4 “Ths Reformer and the Redhead a hh Juba Hn a5 33 Bik Powell,

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ment Park. Dancing was instituted Thurs-| 8nd 10:33. a {day In the Ferris Wheel Res-| taurant on a three-times-a-week | Guidance Workshop

basis. Ace Balley and his orches- | Announced by Butler

, whic A ee Jansing w An institute and workshop July For marksmen the park has in-|10-14 in the techniques of guidstalled a “bazooka” range. Three- ance has been announced by the| ©® linch rubber balls are fired from Butler University College of Edu-five-foot guns under 80-pound air cation. pressure at targets 50 feet away. Bight new motor boats also were put in service last week.

cBabogta,’” at 1, 3:21, 5:45, 8:00

The institute is designed for counselors, deans, teachers and administrators.

TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW CLAYPOOL HOTEL TICKET CENTER PRICES: Gen. Adm. 60o—Reserved Grandstand Seats $1.20--Track Seats $1.80-Boxes $2.40 (all Sax fmel) Special Attention Given to Mall Orders—Enciose Self -Addressed Stamped Envelope.

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dominant role, and in the hands of such a master as Casndamua, that's On the other side of this ‘Feo ord is:Cesar Frank's “Symphonic Variations,” with Casadesus again

is the Philharmonie, conducted by. George Weldon. This work, while artistically one of Franck’s best, is musically deep, and perhaps will appeal more for its technique than for anything e

+ » BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 8 in C Minor for Plano and Orchestra (Op. 37), played by Claudio Arrau, piano, with The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, on Columbia 12-inch LP MI-4302. The remarkable performance of this great work for piano and orchestra by Claudio Arrau, the sensational - Chilean pianist is ample testimony to his eminence as 4 Beethoven interpreter. Beethoven composed this work in 1800 as a display piece for his own virtuosity as a pianist, and that, of course, has made it a challenge to every concert pianist since.

» - Ld MOZART: SONATA NO. 26 In B-Flat Major, played by Isaac Stern, violin, and Alexander Zakin, plano; also, Haydn's “Concerto No. 1 in C Major for Violin and String Orchestra” played by Stern and a string orchestra with

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Andre Kostelanetz and Maurice which |Abravanel. She does the soprano arias Ws ag Japredasd Ber. Ttlot Seville” “Le Coq d'Or” “The per-| Tales of Hoffman" and other opwarnings eras; also, such favorite French

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" ” ” NADINE CONNER in Scotch and Irish Songs, with Sylvan Shulman conducting the Colum-

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attractive Scotch and Irish songs, including “Danny Boy,” “Comin*® Thro’ the Rye,” “A Little Bit of Heaven,” “Where the River Shannon Flows” and “Loch Lomond.” --H, W, M.

Manual Editors To Attend Parley |

Gay Smith and Charles Bure gess, Booster and yearbook editors gt Manual High Bchool, are 11 pudtNication staff members who will attend the fifth annual Indiana University High School Journalism Institute at Bloomington July 9-23. 3 Other delegates include Martha Sherman, Joan Emhardt, Willlam Stokes, Jerry Hendricks, Rose-

lyn Bennett, Chariés Sharp and Evelyn Baumer. Miss Gretchen Kemp, former director of publications at Manual and now a member of the IU faculty, is in charge of the institute.

Rain Scares Of Crowd As Chicago Fair Opens CHICAGO, June 24 (UP)— Thundershowers, mixed with heat and humidity, today put a discouraging damper on the opening of the Chicago Fair for 1950. The local weather bureau reported a fall of .75 inches in the latest of several thundershowers to beset visitors to the fair's inaugural on the lakefront during the afternoon. Disheartened by dark skies, only 4673 persons Went through

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