Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 38

Bill Tuesday ‘Student Prince’ and ‘Betsy’

Close Tonight

By HENRY BUTLER

ANOTHER big week is upon us, with “The New Moon” opening Tuesday night at the Fairgrounds.

In this first local production since the 1947 Butler Bowl season!

of Romberg’s Old New Orleans musical romance, the leads, as you know, will be sung by Gail Manners and John Elliott. Comedian Bert Matthews, veteran of the 1947 production,

again will rassie with the laugh

Also in Charles Hedley’'s company for “The New Moon” are Violet Marie Hadden, Indianapolis soprano, as Julie; Alexander Gray, currently singing the Dr. Engel role in “The Student Prince,” which closes tonight; Doris Patston, Frank Parrish and Tony Donadie. Mr. Parrish will sing and Mr, Donadio will act the role of Philippe, In case you're wondering what to see tonight, “Heavens to Betsy,” Tom Boyd's remarkable new musical, will give its. final perfprmance in the IU building, also at the Fairgrounds. This show, put on for the benefit of the Children’s Museum, is one of the, brightest and funniest things I've seen and heard in a long time.

» » » ELSEWHERE In the state

“Street Scene,” Kurt Well’ opera based on the Elmer Rice play—by far the most ambitious

late Mr. Weill won a brief, honorary Hoosier status two years ago by attending the world pre-

are completed, another Weill

(opera, “Lost in the Stars” willl appear here Oct, 23 and 24, with Todd Duncan, famed Negro bari-|

tone formely of Indianapolis, in the chief role.

a4 five-night run of Mill,” second of three operettas planned for this season. Staged in! the News-Sentinel Outdoor Thea-|

there are entertainment items deserving renewed mention

tonight, as well as next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in the Brown County Playhouse, Nashville. Their reasonably straightfaced version of the old tearjerking thriller actually is funnier than a burlesqued version would

The IU summer operetta series)

Here. Lee Norvell's IU Theater play- Playhouse will finish its run of| ers will do “East Lynne” again “Laura” tonight, with “The Glass!

ter in Franke Park, the series is being directed by William Meader. | Also upstate, the Maxinkuckee|

{ Menagerie”

| Tuesday. |

scheduled to open

{monic Orchestra is having diffi-| {culty finding a rehearsal hall for! {the coming season. For several seasons the ama-|

jteur musicians have used a halll

will repeat “The Firefly,” Friml's that ‘will not be available any

operetta, next Thursday, Friday|

{longer. Their problem is com-

and Baturday at 8:15 p. m. (DST) plicated by the necessity of hold-| in East Hall on the Bloomington|ing rehearsals only on Monday

campus.

It's to be followed, evenings, when conductor

Ernst |

starting July 27 by a run of Hoffman comes up from IU

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With an active membership of

some 75 musicians, the orchestra

difficult undertaking! of the éntire season. I might remind you that the

miere at IU of his American folk! opera, “Down in the Valley.” | If Murat booking arrangements

Upstate, the ¥t. Wayne Light Opera Festival, Inc., tonight opens| “The Red

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Principals in 'Best Voice' For Hoosiers at Opera

John Elliott and Gail Manners have the leading roles of Rob- | ert and Marianne in "The New Moon," Starlight Musicals’ second operetta, opening Tuesday at the Fairgrounds.

‘La Traviata’ Performance Superior

To Cincinnati Zoo Setting as Usual

By HENRY BUTLER, Times Staff Writer CINCINNATI, July 15—Some 70 Indianapolis opera patronsifante et de la Mere, recorded on

last Traviata.”

Sponsored by Gladys Alwes, Indianapolis agent for the Cin- haud conducting

of new Columbia LP “moderns” to which wé have been

der what the younger generation, | jor even the musical technicians, see in them. : Then a composition written no longer ago than 1926 jumps .out and engages our ears, and proves to be one of the miost entertaining pieces of music we've heard in a long time. It is— KODALY'S HARY JANOS SUITE, played by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, on 12-inch LP ML 4306. This wonderfully imaginative and witty suite by one of Hungary's foremost composers tells the story in music of a national folklore hero who sounds like a combination of Till Eulenspiegel and Baron Muenchhausen, There are six movements, all novel with some quite catchy tunes among ithem. On the other side— | RAVEL: RAPSODIE ESPAGINOLE, which, as played by Or[mandy and his Philadelphians, is

— |plenty “modern” but plenty good.

{It was written in 1907, and was {the first work of Ravel's to win {universal praise for its fastidious {and subtle orchestration. Ravel {was one of several Frenchmen, {including Bizet, Lalo and Cha{brier, who wrote some of the most {effective and popular “Spanish” imusic. (ML 4306).

| MILHAUD: CANTATE de I'En-

night trekked here to the Zoo for a performance of “La 12-inch LP ML 4305 by Madeleine |

Milhaud, diseuse, with Darius Milthe Juilliard

/ | einnati Summer Opera, the excursion gave patrons a good view of String Quartet and Leonid Ham-

needs a sizable room with reasonably good acoustics. Its budget allows only a minium for rent—|

maybe enough to cover lights and| oqy of the consumptive Parisian/in the Zoo. The seating pattern

heat. : Anybody who knows of a cen-| trally-located building where the! Philharmonic might rehearse regularly can do the orchestra al favor by communicating with J.| L. Smith, vice president. Mr, Smith may be reached at

{Empire Life, LI, 4368.

CLUB LUNCHEON PLANNED | The Oak Hill Grandmother's!

{Club will hold a noon luncheon well - staged production,

Wednesday at the home of Mrs.

this historic project in music Lion roars in the

distance

drama.

{bro at the piano, This is quite an

{unusual record, which must be

punctuated Act 1 of Verdl’s trag- far surpasses theater design here, ..4 a4 it is hard to describe.

too well.

Up to the moment when I had

| dame who loved not wisely but Which now includes extra chairs { {badly crowding the aisles, needs It should no take

jrevamping.

to leave to phone in this story, |. seated.

Violetta, the was in a decline,

pathetic

conclusion of the opera.

Of the three principals in this Lucia! and |

Evangelista, as Violetta,

heroine, ! It's quite pos-! | sible somebody may have administered one of the new miracle {drugs and thereby changed the

But the important thing

stuff,

Job Offices

{15 minutes for prompt arrivers to!

is | what this annual season means to music. It helps keep the Cin-| cinnati Symphony going. And it} sustains popular appetite for good

’|The melodious voice of the com{poser’s wife recites, not sings, {several poems in French by the {Belgian poet Maurice Careme, {with a “background of her husband’s striking modern music. On {the other side is Milhaud's ‘La {Muse Menagere,” played by the composer on the piano, a ‘work {written -for amateurs that presents no technical difficulties for ithe pianist. ‘ | LALO: LE ROI d'YS/ Overture, {and Elie Siegmeister's “Ozark {Set,” recorded by Dimitri Mitro-

Some of the tems in a group|

listening | make an oldster who likes his

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{poulos and the Minneapolis SymAssociated Employment phony Orchestra on the two sides | glamorous and too healthy look-: Agencies of Indiana yesterday of-{of 10-inch LP ML 2123, Two very

ing for a dying heroine's role, has ferred its services to state and different pieces of music, the first

{sometimes seems to be outside mobilization. {of her personality. Telegrams sent

| Mr. Weede, as the spoil sport, | socially ambitious father, knows how to project tone without strain, Charles Kullman, acting well go. » as Alfredo, evidently was suffer-/ ing from vocal fatigue. |

reached at a quarterly meeting|

chestra was whipped into knifesharp precision, with accent on Maury G. Fadell, brass, by Paul Breisach. dent of the group. As in other years, performance Indianapolis officers include

Ancil T. Brown, vice president,

LAST DAY

rom a seldom<heard French op-!|

to President era of 1875 by a sensitive French! wyliams and Van Johnson, at {Truman and Gov. Schricker read: cOmposer who took great care| 3:35 {“In the event of a manpower With his work. The second is the mobilization program, our assocta-| incidental {tion 1s ready and prepared to go 1943 by My. Siegmeister for a play| all out in any capacity you de-'about the Ozarks produced by the | Theater Guild, and therefore com-|.* Decision on the matter was Pletely American.

at 1:15, 3:45, rDANC The traditionally excellent or-|of 40 Indiana private employment STRINGS, recorded by the Stuy-| “

|agencies in the Washington Hotel. | vesant Sinfonietta, Sylvan Shul-| Gary, is presi- man conducting, on 10-inch LP |

music composed

MODERN MUSIC FOR

{a true and powerful voice that|nation for possible assistance in B the rather popular overture

in|

Laura Castellano, soprano, will have the title role in “Rosa-

ances tonight and next Thursday _ at the Cincinnait Zoo. "Rosa-

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| to be produced in the history of | | the Cincinnati Summer Opera,

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i { ML 2121. A group of short pieces {for strings by some of the most remarkable musicians of the cen-| ‘tury, including Rachmaninoff and {Shostakovitch of Russia, Bartok of Hungary, Hindemith of Ger-| many, and Shulman of the United! States. Well played, no doubt, even If hard to understand, | W. M

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Select Group Leaders For Butler Workshop |

Group leaders have been named for Butler University's annual] kindergarten - elementary work-| shop to be held tomorrow through | Friday. i { Mrs. Lucille Field, public] schools 80 and 35, will act as leader for the kindergarten group. Miss Eloise Proctor, public school! 43, will lead discussions for the| (first grade group. { The second and third grade unit} iwill be directed by Mrs. Roxie

{Day, public school 80, and Miss! A Song,” and “Me and My Imag.

Olive A. Purdy, public school 8, will direct activities of the upper! {grades group.

| Times Amusement

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| FAIRGROUNDS ! tans Student Prince,” operetta, a i “Heavens 16 Betsy,” musical com= y Tom Boyd. in Indians versity Bullding at 8:30,

VIRL “The White Tower,” with Ford and Valli, at 12:35, and. 10:10 “Armored Car Robbery,” Charles McGraw, at 2:40, 5:50 £5QUL

Uni-

Glenn 3:50, 7 with and 9,

“Goin' to Town.” with Mas West, at 3:20. 6.10 and 8. : “Belle of the Nineties,” with Mas West, at 1:45, 4:35. 7:25 and 10:15.

“Winghester { tewart

1:50. “Motor Patrol and Jane Nigh, and 9:10 KEITH'S “Bright Leaf,” with Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall, at 12:30, 3:35, 6:56 and 10:05. 3 sama World,” at 2:25, 5:40 and

with James Winters, at with Don Castle at 2:40, 3.30, 6:20

LOEW'S “Duchess of Idaho.” with i

5, 6:53 and 9:51. “State Penitentiary,” with Warner Baxter, at A Ag 36 and 8:34.

“Tarzan and the Slave Girl,” with Lex Barker and Vanessa Brown, at 2:20, 4:50, 7:30 and 10:10. “Dynamite Pass.” with Tim Holt, 715, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:05.

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{Four Hits and a | linda" will be the first operetta |Miss.

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| Yankovic's “Beer Barrel Polka,”

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1950

Gary Sings With Pop

As Crosby & Son Team

‘Simple Melody’ by Groaner and Eldest ~ Boy Appears Sure-Fire Best Seller

By DONNA MIKELS LOOK FOR this disc to climb right up to selling list. > It's the old Groaner Bing Crosby in duet with eldest son Gary, who is making his disc debut. The father-son team sings one tune already headed for hitdom, “Simple Melody,” backed by “Sam's Song.” : Another addition to Deéca's roster of singing talent is leggy, curvaceous, sometimes blonde | peautitul ob on “A Foggy Day” Gloria DeHaven. Gloria phono- and Stat low and Dreaming.” graphically doesn’t quite stack jimmy Dorsey and his Dixieup to Gloria, _ {land jazz group work out on | “Long Way to Tipperary,” with % ‘a Claire (Shanty) Hogan vocal, {On the flip Terry Shand sings, “You Don’t Have to Be A Baby

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