Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1950 — Page 42

Well Deserved— Ovation Greets Symphony

Sevitzky Transmutes Newcomers to Musicians

By Henry Butler THE OVATION Fabien Sevitzky and the Symphony drew for last night's season-opener at the Murat was well . |

deserved. | In any other line, like baseball or basketball, the ova-| tion would be better understood as a triumph for the coach. i hon sB0eEn ake Sadi SPECI BOL A001 Bi ray - # ” =» | ways follow the line-up and =. , Jrek PART bf the note personnel changes. {concert included a Symphonic Last night, they should| Movement on ge Tunes, by} 4 hanges in the or-|Swedish composer urt Atter-| Baye RO au! plus| berg, Paul Creston’s “Frontiers” | a meager week's rehearsals, have|and the “Capriccio Espagnol” of! produced a Dew Indianapolis| Rimsky-Korsakov. on ’ Mr. Atterberg’'s composition, in| Symphony. } a world premiere, is good medium-| This season's orchestra is hv modern stuff that demands plenty ing everything, as it did in Son, from orchestra. As the composer | Brahms Second Symphony, whichip. 0 belatedly wrote me, anent| last night got the bang-up 5A program notes, the “Indian taneous applause any Bral-a’e Tunes” idea struck him in con-! artistic effort gets from an ou “inection with the Indianapolis ence. Even ‘muffs, like the OrD3| gvmphony. For a Swede who has at the. beginning, didn’t matter | never visited the USA, Mr. Atfer-| because the whole work was beau-{, oo 45ino okay, Pm tifully conceived and authorita- TT ga tively performed. PAUL CRESTON’S “Frontiers” The annual alchemy whereby is a fine, substantial work. Dr. Sevitzky transmutes a group The Rimsky-Korsakov “Capricof musicians, many of them new- cio” called forth the best efforts comers, into a Symphony again of Dr. Sevitzky's new first-chair took place. Here it was, Herc' performers, Here are some credwas the real stuff, to be repeated, its, and there won't be space for incidentally, at 3 p. m. today. much else: Stanley Weiner, this : season's. concertmaster, gets a ped the wonderful work-out in the “Capa riccio.” In techmigue, tone, energy j/and leadership, Mr. Weiner is tops among recent concertmasters. Other newcomers deserving high mention include Herbert Congdon, in one week's time, first viola; Jerome Carrington, positions and JR of result. first cello; Wayne Raper, first i ) oboe; Eugene Lehrman, first basDr. Sevitzky's program began. ,n: George Rhodes, first tromwith the “Meistersinger” overture, ,.4 Milton Harris, timpani. in a fine-sounding, Murat-flling myiq is a wonderful team. Don’t rendition. After the Brahms and| ooo gt intermission, it continued with - items I couldn’t hear last night, but caught in rehearsal Friday afternoon.

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By Trials as Big Time William Russell Ca Making 7th Movie This is one of a series of interviews written by R. K. Shull, , Times staff writer, during a recent visit to Hollywood. By R. K. SHULL A BIG genial fellow who used to live on Washington 8t. in Indianapolis is having the time of his life directing movies. William Russell laughs when when others curse, and he lets adversity become. routine. According to Mr. Russell, “I

used to live on Washington St. but my father moved to a farm when I was very young—a sort of ‘Egg and I’ farm, where we fell on our financial faces, Later, we went to Iowa.”

Hollywood, Mr. Russell spent sev-|

{break in show business. | aos leven 110 degrees. HE LANDED his first film job ..nn {as dialogue director at Paramount | lin 1934. Not until 1945 did he be-| {come a full-fledged director: He's now on his seventh film in that capacity. | “We're eight days behind on| jour shooting schedule for this| |film, but we're having a wonder{ful time,” amiable Mr. Russell isaid. “This is the best darned

Brennan,

Genial Former Hoosier Unharrie

{sell’'s happy spirit in making the Like most of the big-timers in|western, “Best of the Badmen.”| pack in 1941. He Earlier the same day, they had has been under eral lean years working at miscei- filmed a robbery scene on location/contract to How{laneous jobs before he got hisiout in the San Fernando Valley {where the temperature was an

ALL WERE joking about the Dim until after heat, with the exception of Walter | whol was wearing of long underwear, a heavy wool f shirt, a leather] coat and a Con-| | federate Army,

overcoat. Mr, Brennan didn’t BACK IN A CORNER,

a Jew-baiter in “Crossfire.” ‘“P'ye been trying to redeem myself in the eyes of the public since I took that role,” Bob said. “This in ‘Badmen’ is my fourth sympathic one in a row now, but

it'll take at least six good parts h s T'11 be back in tile public's

redeeming for Bob Ryan than for Jack Buetel, the baby-faced kid

Star of the touring "Kiss Me, Kate” company is Frances Mes Cann, who, with her partners in the Cole Porter musical, will tread the Murat stage for six days, starting Oct. 30,

tinee idol of the small fry years ago. Other pi than a few more years on his age, the only change is in his hat Back in his heyday, while Tom W ! Mix, Ken May- §& Mr. Buetel nard and the J ‘ other heroes {law. wore 10 gallon § “Of course, I've been studying jobs, Tom Tyler = dramatics all this time, but that .4 a 20-gallon i doesn’t help the public rememberigi;e Now, he ime,” he lamented. wears the flata..8. 8 topped, pork-pie variety. away “It’s this way,” Tom said, “when | Gene Autry came along he was a

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TMURAT ’ Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, “Fo Please A Lady,” with Clark [buneh of actors ve eyer Worked mind the heat, from the spot where Mr. Russell t h rt r than the rest of us Fablen Sevitsky conducting, at 3. Gable and Barbara Stanwyck. at | mp but he was com-|,.4 his principal actors were °° #1 e ry CTRCLE 1:34, 3:39, 3:44, 1:48, snd 9:56. | e actors he referred to were plaining about so he wore a smaller hat. He'd “Three Secrets,” with Eleanor LYRIC Robert Ryan, Lisire Trever, Wal-| : the delay in fin. holding their huddle, Lex Barker nave looked pretty silly with one parker, Patricia Neal and ~ Ruth {ter Brennan, Jack Buetel, Robert] ishi |(ne's Tarzan on the screen) was like I d to wear, Well, it wasn’t : , 3:45, . i : | Mr. Brennan ishing the film. | {like I use , , Ryman Sgt? x as 3 gn 0:30. oi sunt ad uhies, os Reen st Preston, Bruce Cabot and a new-| x a Back in the talking to a fortyish man with allong until we all switched over ling and Joan Dixon, at 2:35, 5:45 | “Shakedown.” with re Dutt sore named John Archer. {northeast corner of Oregon, he familiar face. [to the little ones. Besides, they're CARE | and Peesy Dow, at 11:08, 1:31, 33%, | he hole gang of actorsioperates several businesses, in-| The familiar face belonged toa lot easier to keep on your pyemationr NE ie Howard | ST: 4 and 11:15 seem o have caught Mr. Rus- cluding a motel and theater, and Tom Tyler, hero of the horse | head.” and Wendy Hiller, at 3:30, 7:05 and ig {runs a cattle ranch. He doesn’t operas back in the early 30's. Tom Mr. Russell called “places,” and Majer Marbara’ with Wends Elected President Of Club at Butler |2pPreciats the big city life around still has the rugged all-American everyone shuttled onto the “pet” "ANC or I, :10, | 00d. | - 5:25 and 8740 : William G. Clark, New Au-|Peggy Day, Indianapolis, secre-| yw * = = features which made him the ma for t the next next JSEene, hn eee) INDIANA tary, and Jack Albertson, Indian-| , " n gusta, has been elected president y ac on, Indian ROBERT RYAN wasn’t in any| pro Bocky Mountains with Errol |. yothus Club, religious organ-|aPpolis, treasurer. hurry to get anywhere. He's | NOW yan an : [— to ge yw one|

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