Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1950 — Page 24

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| Starlight's ‘Great . IU ‘Street Scene’ End Today : Regular Late-Summer Lull in Live Entertainment : Sets In; Only Relief to Be Bob Hope at Coliseum

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By Henry Butler THERE'S STILL a chance to see and hear the Indiana Univer-| sity production of “Street Scene.” | ol opera will have a final ; (DST) today in East Hall on the Bloomington campus. . i Also today, Starlight Musicals winds up its current Fairgrounds; season with the last performance of “The Great Walta* . | We're in for the usual late] sumer lull. The only live-enter- started his orchestra on the distainment prospect for the re- sonant and tragic measures of mainder of August is the Bob the introduction, I could tell it Hope show, scheduled at the Coli- was going to be good. | seum for evenings, Aug. 31] There was no let-down through Sept. 2, and one matines, (hroughoU. the performance—no Sept. 3, as a State Fair feature. |uncertainty, no muffing of lines The annual State Fair Follies or awkwardness of action, This

will play nightly at the Fair- thing was real and, even for a thing together in three weeks. In

{hardened reporter; most moving.

grounds Sept. 3 through 8. i Weill may not have been a

” » » AND NOW oack to “Street Verdi or a Wagner, but he wyote!

Scene” As 1 wrote in these with consummate skill. And the

pages last Thursday, this IU gimer Rice play which inspired : Bake os ONeHON 18: BAnaior- heat real win wasn w= Tot BFE ROTHER IHN gens x event, I say that without any an American audience than Ital- 5 :

of the customary allowances one jan mejodrama or German myth. makes for student ventures, | “Street Scene” blends logic with Last spring, when Walter RUA- pyyugi0 and, T think, gives you a sell was discussing with me his non keener sensé of tragedy

plans for a summer operetta Sea-'(pan anything In the Metropoli-| {

~son.at the Ill School of Music, I... pern‘s-repert Leon suggested “Street Scene” as ar ol ay. ire;

possible item. It had the merit IN LAST Thursday's review, 1 He Errs at Times ; of being a radical change from lacked space for deserved men-i HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5 (UP)—| g Bailey Circus will be no exception-when-it-comes to the 16th the usual Herbert-Romberg-Friml tions, Here's a belated word of] Quizmaster Walter O'Keefe judges] St Bay: Sies for $wo ormances Saturday at 2:15 and 8:15 routine. And the album of re- praise for David Alken, who does 340 persons a day to find whether| ~" pe +hi +h | T'd listened to dozens of aswell acting and —singing- job they'll make good-contestants-on P: M. In This case, The

times at home proved it to be a with the role of Frank Maurant, superb musical job, {bull-headed, jealousy-crazed husMr. Russell liked the idea,| . partly. because he himself is a| . veteran of the original production Times Amusement of Elmer Rice’s play, in the tour-| Clock ing company of which he played the part of young Willie Maurant. But even though I knew he'd do| *¢ "CIRCLE a good job with the staging and “Night and the City,” with Gene

| } { FAIRGROUNDS i he Great Walte,” operetia, wt

Ernst Hoffman would skillfully Thetney and, Richard Widmark, st __ieiled. with laughing gas...

steer a student orchestra through the difficult score, 1 Senay wasn’t prepared for the surprise

“Friple Trouble,” with the Bowery Boys, at-2:30, 5 30 and 8.55,

8:25 and

of last-Wednesday night's open-| § Open City. Italian Sim. at 3.30, {voice,” Mr, O'Keefe says. “We Rut they think the “big confusion” over how fast a recor

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: y 8 @» IN THE WORDS of the most 330, 5:45, 8 a moving aria of the score, “some- KEITH'S !

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band. And though there are doz- = ens ‘of others in the cast who! °° should receive credit, I want to single out Louise Herber, as

Miss Herber manages to be both funny and frighténing—fright-| ening, because she's so.real. | § You can expect good technique of voice and diction from voice students in a schoel like IU. But you might be amazed, as I was, at the confidence and mastery all those youngsters displayed in a very demanding score. Messrs. Russell and Hoffman and their eager students put this

that time, the students alsg were attending classes. © i How they did it is a mystery.

For Air Quiz. Show

Walter O'KeefeSays| ™

{hs quiz show. Once in a while, he! star with her in her riding act, {makes a mistake.

omemes |e mien 3.§n@@d Record Headache transfixed, while the expensive! ‘ | minutes tick past. sometimes §@@ON for Another Decade Versatile Changer Is Listeners’ Only

Solution in Manufacturers’ ‘RPM War’

“NEW YORK, Aig 5 (UPJ==Thé men who make and sell phono- You Break My Heart?” Sloan “I'm always lookKlag for a per- graph records say the music will keep going ‘round in three speeds “Golden Sails.” “paisan,” Italian fim, ‘st 198, {sonality that is reflected In 2a gor another decade. * |

they erupt like an oilwell, and| capping the gusher is quite a job.! Some of them go off on a hys-| terical binge as if the studio were |

can't have an accent that nobody! revolve is about over.

ith Newton and Bobby Distoll, at 1:15, ian arrogant show-off. What we 19 years,” an official of a chain

want is contestants with whom/| of music stores said.

every listener can identify him-| The simple day of only one self.” | record speed is gone, manufactur-| From the 340 persons who jam ers and sellers agreed. To keep {the NBC studio daily to see “Dou- jn the spin, you must pay your

ble or Nothing,” Mr. O'Keefe must money and take your

4 chojce, |. pick 10 persons to go on stage. The traditional disc, which 1° After an interview, five are chosen turns at 78 revolutions per min ute, gradually will pass out o “I've never seen any of them the picture, But since 16,000,000

to go before the mike,

before, but that pays off with existing phonographs are ol

150 VIRGINIA AVE. FR-0510 Monte Hale, at 1, 3:39, 6:18 and some of the most unexpected bon style spinners, record makers say| — {mots imaginable,” he said. “I they will produce 78 rpm’s as long| don’t think there's anyone more as there is a demand for them— | confused or delighted than the probably for 10 years at least. {layman_ facing a. radio audience Many. dealers blamed a slump ‘who suddenly discovers the quiz- in business last spring on the con{master is playing straights and fusion resulting from the competitive slow speed records—those There was one contestant who that revolve at 33'4 and 45 rpm. |

HE's getting the laughs.” referred to himself as an under-|

ales Slump Denied taker, A few sentences later he Sales Sump /

sald he was a funeral director.! The “big four” among the man-

2 % {the difference,

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“On Sundays.” the man replied | Columbia, which touched off > p the “battle of the speeds” two

The contestant then added he Tas age Wien ont ost lst ily to “Doubl - e long-playing a rpm record, Siena daily to dble or-Noth {is the only one of the giants not

“Everybody around the place) thInn out platters in all three

“I'm a mortician.”

ar Mr. O'Keefe asked. good business” for fall.

ing” at his funeral parlor.

enjoyed-it,” he-added.

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Can't get enough of that Andre

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“Jean Arthur, Boris Karloff Repeat Roles From N.Y. Stage Hit in Skillful Adaptation -

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3 One of the topmost hits on the New York stage today is, surprise’ _

ingly enough, that delightful childish fantasy of yesteryear, J.

| Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” If you are not privileged to see and hear

there, you can enjoy it on a new Columbia LP recording just res

leased. _ BARRIE: PETER PAN, staring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloft

prodigy.

Words," is equally as fine as its predecessor, “Previn Plays mer! Piano.” Nothing nicer could be} composer, Yeehnded on LP record), some Hungarian folk songs : | The New York stage production, tive girl singing. film of | She same title, ie i | which was ecstatically received by Long op THE GOLDEN

sald. © i’ Tunes, all from the new MGM

“All Alone Monday,” “Who's » Sorry Now,” 4 “Where Did You Get ‘That Girl”

. Pretty ladies and white hoises are standard stock in the circus

trade, and this year's edition of the Ringling Bres. and Barnum |

dy is Cilly Feindt and the horse will co

“| Here's another boy-girl duet,

| A spokesman for RCA Victor Washerwoman,” backed d-/8aid “the -speed-happy situation “Rockabye the Boogie” has been “resolved.” ! “Our- program is to sell music| Tzena Tzen and not speeds,” he said. | An official of Capitol predicted Sec that before long the record-play- pagne.”.

ihg public could have anything| Dale Evans, Mrs. Roy Rogers -DANCEit wants on both the 45 and 335. to the six-gun set, steps out of: |B

Fourth Speed Rumored ithe sagebrush atmosphere on,

rumor that a record to play at Saddle {16 rpm has been developed and wim may he marketed. Columbia's Wallerstein said it was “very un-| t | Hkely” that a fourth spéed would 80 over with the public. | | A spokesman for Liberty Mu-| ale Shops, a New York .chain,! {however, said that If the manufacturers should press the speed rivalry to “the almost no-speed! irecord,” it would ruin the bus|Iness for everybody. ait re aa merits] CTE IR ROMINE oul against the] |45 rpm speed promoted by its {arch rival, RCA Victor. But Ed- { ward A. Wallerstein, Columbia | | president, said that if it ever finds] { Columbia popular business is

_hinon uiacturers — Capitol, -Columbia, | ngey- | Decca and RCA Victor--disclaim| “What's the idea of getting|/any unusual slump and predic

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She teams with Jack Smith on and Boris Karloff are especially the Hall of the Mountain King’

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Arthur Godfrey and Janette Da-| gypraNA: FROM MY LIFE, Philadelphia Orchestra, who also

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|“Crying Myself to Sleep.”

| Ken Griffin at the organ and {Jerry Wayne offer “Why Did

d should | RCA-VICTOR-—Phil Regan for a great composer, ‘was total| ? sings two oldies “Three Little deafness, which led to Smetana’s~ can understand and we can't have “Thre three-speed changer will be the thing for the next five to Words” and “You Are My Lucky Withdrawal from the world for Star” with Lee Arnaud and the the last 10 years of his life and being lost by “not having 45, we ju4 Conlon choir.

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