Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1950 — Page 26
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Stage and Music—
JATP to Return To Murat Friday
Ella Fitzgerald Heads Granz Instrumental Music Program
By Henry Butler THIS WEEK'S biggest entertainment event is “Jazz at the Philharmonic,” coming Friday evening to the Murat. This annual visit of Norman Granz & Co. will give local hepcats a last wild fling before Fabien Sevitzky and
{the Symphony open their series Oct. 14 and 15. The JATP line-up is much the same as in former sea-|
* sons, with pianist Oscar ™ygnt add here comment that
Peterson, Canadian virtuoso, these “MM” programs in the past : : : i _‘have brought us artists who later making his Indianapolis de (went on to bigger things and but. bigger fees. Violinist Erika Morini As this column mentioned last wag one. Fugene Istomin and
Sunday, Ella Fitzgerald, bosomy|yacob Lateiner, pianists, were two,
diva of jive, will be chief vocal- more. not to mention soprano
ist in a program mainly devoted frances Yeend.
to instrumental music. i Other personalities familiar to] local fans will be Coleman Hawk-| MARGARET WEBSTER has, “Ins, Lester Young and Flip Phil- canceled her Shakespearean tour lips, sax artists; Harry Edison, | for the coming season, The reason | trumpeter on his first tour with | given is lack of sufficient backing. | JATP; Bill Harris, trombonist,| Miss Webster told the New York| and Buddy Rich, drummer. {Times she might reconsider if] * 8 = |last-minute’ guarantors should] ANOTHER evening of not-too-| appear. serious music before Symphony! The cancellation will leave gaps opening is the Rudy Vallee show, In the Indiana University and]
{itemized in these pages a couple of weeks ago. I've suggested to] {IU that “Lost in the Stars,” the [Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill |opera, turned down by the Murat because of high cost, would make a fine event for the IU--Audi-| torium date of Nov, 13 left open by Miss Webster's company. | It would be appropriate for “Lost in the Stars” to play at IU, where Weill's “Down in the Valley” had its world. premiere, | “ land. where Ernst Hoffman and] Walter Russell last summer did al magnificent job with Weill’s| “Street Scene.” If the show is] available and can be booked, it should attract considerable local interest on account of the In-| dianapolis background of Todd | [Punean, who heads the cast. {
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‘Marsh Piano Lecture
booked for Tuesday, Oct. 10. Rudy, Series Opens Oct. 3 hase "of “Bing Jad $e Sarreat First lecture-recital to be con-| been making pemarkabl Succe "ducted by Ozan Marsh at Jordan) ful come-back a; YS College of Music in a series of evening instruction courses will
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Ossy Renardy, violinist; Nancy Carr, soprano, and Gold and Fizdale, duo-pianists, will appear on the Matinee Musicale's artists’ concerts this season in L. S, Ayres’ auditorium. Dates in chronological order are: Oct. 27, Mr. Renardy; Feb. 2, 1951, Gold and Fizdale, and Apr. 27, Miss Carr.
{Purdue big entertainment series, _
Star Once Sang At Columbia Club
spent part of the summer in Hollywood talking with stars and other people who work for the movies. This is one in a series of his interviews and ob-
__ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Artists on Matinee Musicale Series
SUNDAY, SEPT. 24, 1950
{conversation to Bob Hope and
Marilyn Maxwell's Li ps Well-Tagged As "Most Kissable,' Times
their work together
| “I've never enjoyed movie work so much as with Bob,” she said. headquarters, he got an interest
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By R. K. SHULL The most kissable lips in Holly~ wood belong to Marilyn Maxwell, according to one lipstick manufacturer,- and anyone who has been close enough to observe will agree. Blonde and beautiful, the Marvel Maxwell who used to sing at the Columbia Club in Indianapolis
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Exit Marvel Marilyn Maxwell.
“The | / 4% Lemon Drop Kid,” which they had re i ——————— ee , © |just completed. Times Staffer R. K. Shull | 3
New Civic Technical Assistant Is ISTC Sycamore Players ‘Grad’
Howard L. Grigsby
Likes Student Drama By HENRY BUTLER Howard L. Grigsby, the Civic Theater's new technical assistant, says he has “great hopes for theater in’ Indiana” As a graduate of Indiana State Teachers’ College, where he worked with Dr. Robert W. Masters and the Sycamore Players, he admits he has a bias In favor -of student theater, rather than professional. But the fact that he still is “mainly interested in educational theater” increases his optimism. 2 “Indiana always has had high ° standards in education. Maybe we can do big things with tour- 3 ing student companies to bring theater to everybody,” he says. . fiis interest in the stage goes back quite some years, . Though he was born in Chica- ©Ff Hopalong Cassidy? go in 1922, he moved with hisjand ’'47 Contemporary Drama for a Ph. D. took most of Mr, parents, when he was about 6,Summer trips to New York) Grigsby’s post-war time up to his to Terre Haute. There his father,irounded out his experience at|Civic engagement. He has been the late Heber P. Grigsby, was/ISTC. engaged to teach some classes in employed in the Department of| That's not mentioning World|the Butler University department Veterans’ Affairs. |War IL. Mr. Grigsby, a tall, rangy|of speech this fall. Unpromising Debut {and untroubled-looking guy who| The Grigsbys currently are live 3 {used to play second-string footballing with their 5-year-old som, re a anurans agelin high school, enlisted in the John Michael, at 2851 N. Capitol 9, he sang a song in a minstrel Marines in Indianapolis in Janu-| Ave, show in Centenary Methodist FY '42. They trained him ‘as a| John Michael, an Orchard Church in Terre Haute. ' “ !School pupil, lately has fallen Back to Okinowa [from grace. He used to be interIn the First Marine Raider ested in Shakespeare, Shelley and “Maybe it was just stubbornness Battalion, he saw service on Tu- Keats. His parents took time that got me back into theater.” |lagi and Guadalcanal. He didn't| teaching. him passages from those From his mother, who now 1s|do much sniping. “Most of it was great poets. . living in Indianapolis and working regular infantry stuff,” he says. “But the neighbors downstairs at the American Legion's national An attack of malaria put him on have television now. These days, limited duty as signal quarter- John Michael doesn’t know which it parts in junior and master in New Caledonia. And a is more important, Shakespeare . |senior high school operettas (“I 30-day leave brought him to San or Hopalong Cassidy,” Mr, to sing baritone in those Diego, where he married his high Grigsby told me. but lately I think maybe School girl friend, the former Miss oii eeipidipiempiatniite he says) kept him|Mary Jane Dimmick of Terre ndigng State Teachers
behind footlights. aute. . BH Ne from teachers Miss Dimmick, by then a trained Enrollment Up This Year
, had enlisted in the Navy. kept him active on the stage. And nurse ) Times State Service so when he enrolled in a pre-legal| Under Navy regulations, she had| TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 23—En-
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Grigsby and son . . . Shakespeare
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course at ISTC, a chance to ap- 3 Fesign from the service after roliment at Indiana State Teachpear as Lysander in “Midsummer os Harring. Pacific i5 ¢lérs College here was higher this Night's Dream,” a role he played| = te SRCEPer CECE tou oO |vear than last, President Ralph in high school, brought him into| uty A — i Mr, | N- Tirey said. the Sycamore Players, Grigsby was dwcharged wa No- With enrollment still not com~ Managed Trips vember, ’45. pleted; President Tirey said the Acting (Benvolio in “Romeo| Finishing an A.B. at ISTC and Rofeall War and Jubscquent draft and Juliet” for example), tech- PPren ly od Bol ou down
getting an A.M. at the University nical work and business manag-|of Illinois, where he has a bid in 0 the 1950-51 attendance.
third year He was | spoken wo penses in t “How is Holllywoc had fallen «
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As emcee, with his own style } fiickerville allt 1 be titled “The Art of Piano Tech- . of drollery, Me Vall wi [regent nique.” The lecture will be held She started out in Ft. Wayne, a variety show, backed by Chris at 7:30 p. m. on Oct. 3 where she was born, and spent the Cross and his NBC orchestra. a [le «He early days of her car band. late-night drink and to talk busi-| Other subjects to be covered by y day areer on ban | The Vallee evening is the only stands d the state of Indi. Ness with a producer who wants + addi to the time of this MT: Marsh in the series of master * ngs aroun e state of Indi, a m stery series on the ’ tion, up of this are: “Recital Prepara- ana. After she was in Indianapo-| Y . . writing, to the Murat schedule for " po wi lis, h ht fi {air this winter. | * th. tion,” Oct. 31; “Memorization,” lls, her career caught fire. | “I have it pretty nice,” she said, \jext month. Nov. 21; “Interpretation,” Dec. 12, Maybe Indianapolitans remem-| “have It pretty nice.” she said, J THR MATINEE MUSICALE and “The Concert Pianist,” Jan. ber her as a brunet, since even R3! Er ad I - wg e pe. has announced its artists’ concerts|16. Marilyn has trouble remembering| 1%" JF © TE Tv, ws wy | series for thls season, “Designed for plano teachers When the hair-bleach and name- “T° appeal oh any 4 radio or| Programs, all to be given at 2(2nd advanced students, the change took place. OT or ou] p. m. Fridays in L. 8. Ayres’ audi-({classes will provide participants| “I do remember the thrill of To gis Foe! ar. " torlum, will be: Ossy Renardy, With an opportunity to discover coming back to the Columbia) VitB Dean Martin ‘and -Jerry| . David Harding: Comtsiony. with violinist, Oct. 27; Goid and Fig. new approaches .to these areas ot Club last year as a guest and | Lewis soon. dale, due-planists, Feb, 2,1051, ana [thelr work. Mr. Marsh, artist. meeting the same people who had ard. Widmark and i teacher always k .| She stopped the conversation| qld Nancy Carr, soprano, Apr. 27. and plano department Ja WBOWH It asa POOF Work | long enough to greet Butch Jen-| “Widers In" the Hip" with Gene | :
the first-aid sald: “It’s not will be requ Presently “= with bands + when we | how lucky = “Lucky! ~ “Mad!” we be glad you
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