Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1950 — Page 6

Swope and Music Forecast— - Wartime Nerves Need to Relax

Entertainment Not Likely ' To Be Defense Drive Casualty

By Henry Butler MY PREDICTION for 1951 entertainment facts will confound the prophets of gloom. : In past seasons, prospects often have been slender. But as time rolled along, we've had shows we didn’t What's more important, we've steadily

expect to have. built an increasing number of The half-developed negative of next year's picture still is somewhat blurred—| certainly in the touring-show department. As of this writing, the Murat promises only Mae West in “Diamond ‘Lil,” starting its five days Jan. 16. Possibilities for the rest of the winter and spring and next fall will depend on the ups

and downs of show business else-| the Maennerchor schedule for the where, not to mention the unpre-| rest of the season are concerts dictable factors of transportation nar 10, with Joan Hammond, |

as affected by war threats. 2 ” ” ”

the complex of real and imagined] hazards. Regardless of what time| actually brings, we'll still have]

need for entertainment-—perhaps| even more need as tension grows.

For we're going to have to learn concerts per season. There's every|

to live with danger and face it| calmly. As London learned during) the blitz, we must continue as

much as we can of our normal cessful team work for another Program of Del-

activity. { Under stress, we may find mu-| gic and drama absolute necessi-| ties, and not just ornaments,

of coming years will give us a depth and maturity of under-| standing we've never had before. With the amazing reserve of tal-| cnt Indiana possesses, we

‘gram for 1951-52, starting with

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local and regional shows.

Charles Wagner's production of “La Traviata” and continuing with a vocalist, an instrumentalist (probably pianist) and a ballet.

Clarence Elbert's Maennerchor will° celebrate the 100th anniver{sary of that celebrated choral

group with a special concert Feb. 24 in the Athenaeum. Also on

British soprano; May 12, with

: {Eugene Conley, Metropolitan ten-| AND SPEAKING of wari, "anq May 26, with the Colum-| threats, now's the time to face, ... .4 the Murat Chanters, in|

the annual Triad program. Now enjoying capacity membership, the Ensemble Music Society will continue its program of four

indication now that Ernst Hoffman and the Indianapolis Philharmonic will resume their suc-

year. An extra musical event just announced is the Jan. 24 recital

lin World War Memorial by Stan- Will be presented It may well be that the anxiety ley Weiner, concertmaster, and in the World®

Edwin Biltcliffe,

pianist, of . the Symphony. k

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REMINDERS are due of the IU Jan. 12. may and Purdue musical importations: |

here is that

D minor Concerto. .

Claudio Arrau, world-famous pianist, will be heard as soloist with Fabien -Sevitzky and the Sym and Monday evening in the Murat,

y next Sunday afternoon r. Arrau will play the Brahms

Recital to Mark Founder's Day

Mrs. Alice Brokenburr Ray will play a piano recital for Founder's Day

ta Sigma Theta Sorority. T he program

War Memorial Auditorium at 815 p.m. Friday, I

Mrs. Ray's Mrs. Ray

produce an unprecedented wealth/Jan. 12, Yehudi Menuhin at Pur- Program will in-

of music and drama. : ® 8 0»

SO MUCH for speculation. Now Warren, baritone, at IU; Mar, 31,!

gome currently available facts. They'll have to be summarized rather briefly, and I'll start with music. For the remainder of the Symphony's current season, Fa-| bien Sevitzky has booked pianist Claudio Arrau next Sunday aft-| ernoon and the following Monday | evening; Toba Brill, planist, for

Chorus at IU; Mar. 11, Leonard

Maryla Jonas, pianist, at’ Purdue; Apr. 1, Kirsten Flagstad, soprano, at IU, and May 18, James Melton, tenor, at Purdue. ; IU and Purdue both will play host to the Metropolitan Opera sometime in May, on dates not yet announced. Dean Wilfred C. Bain's IU

|due; Feb. 20, DePaur's Infantry clude Bach-Busoni, Scriabine, Ka-

New Civic Play Cast Is Chosen

Civie Theater director Jack

a pop concert at 3:30 p.m. Jan. School of Music lists a series of Hatfield has selected the cast for

14; Heifetz, violinist, Jan. 27 and important concerts and opera per- the

thenaeum auditorium. - With Renato Pacini directing, first musical effort of the

lamateur dramatic ‘group wil

have a cast of 40 and a 25-piece tra. : roles will be sung by Sher Lee Cheek, Josephine Hah and Paul McCaslin. Also included in the cast are: Car-

_lolyn Lonberger, Mary Margaret

‘Malatesta, Mary Melle, Marge Reed, Charlotte Scibetta, Don Curran, Ed Doerr, Joe Feld, Fred Gisler, Bill Gardiner, Ed Schmid-

lin and Thomas Williams.

Margaret R. Mellen is dra-

matic coach and Roslyn Ludwig Lauck is choreographer. mittee heads are: Mary McNulty, program; Dorothy McKinna, tickets; Janet Myers, and Bernice O'Connor and Bea-| trice Ackelmire, publicity.

Com-

costumes,

The Jan. 13 performance will

be sponsored: by the Daughters of Isabella.

IU Pianist ‘Makes Up’ As He Goes but

: SUNDAY, DEC. a, 1050 Music Hearers

Fools

Easier to Improvise Than learn Numbers

By HENRY BUTLER Times Staff Writer

Short, stocky, dapper and excitable, Mr. Fuleihan can reel off : short-order compositions in the style of any composer you want to name, 2 : He can turn with ease from a convincing parody of a whole Bach cantata to an equally convincing parody of Paul Hindeimith’s style of writing without key. What's more, in the Hinde-mith-while-you-wait act, Mr. Fuleihan even adds requisite facial expressions and interpretative gestures like those of a serious conce! artist trying to find meaning in the music. The improvising is not entirely for fun. At parties, Mr. Fuleihan many, on request, do something like a set of variations and | fugue on “Pop, Goes the Weasel!” But he prefers to term improvisation “instant composition.” That's |

TV Makers Face Sharp Cutbacks

Industry's Miracle

Boom Due for Halt

By DALE J. OLMSTEAD United Press Financial Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 30—Telelvision, the industry Whose rate of | |growth in 1950 made most other) industries look like small pota-| /toes, may be stopped dead in its] {tracks in 1951, according to lead-!| lers in the field. f Most makers of television sets agree that the industry will grow, as fast as defense preparations will let it. In the event of all-out] war, they fear television's growth’ {will be stopped cold, and held up indefinitely. | Prior to Korea, prominent figlures in the TV industry were pre-| |dicting that 30,000,000 sets would be sold in the next five years. Production late in 1950 achieved a rate of nearly 10,000,000 sets a| year, and most of the large pro-|

theater's January production, ducers agreed that the industry) O

28 and Bartlett and Robertson, /formances for the remainder of Fay Kanin's comedy, “Goodbye, could have produced that many duo-pianists, Feb, 4-and 5. A so-'the season: Berkshire Quartet, My Fancy” Jan. 12 through 15.

loist has not yet been named, to|Jan. 25, Feb. 28 and Apr. 4; IU,

To be staged in the Indiana

replace Boris Christoff (visa dif- Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan. 24, University building at the Fair

ficulties)) for the Feb, 24 and 25 with Choral Union; Feb. 25 and Grounds, pro-|Apr. 22; “Parsifal” Mar. 18, and veteran Civic actors. be (planned is a contemporary musiC charle Dosch, K

Sevitzky's final will

pair. Dr. grams, Mar. 3 and 4, built on popular requests.

‘Rigoletto,” Apr. 27. Also being

The orchestra also will give the festival May 18 through 20.

season's final “Meet Your Sym:

phony” concert Jan. 22, Concerts ithe IU Theater,

Jan. 16, at IU, and Feb. 27, at Purdue; Jan. 20, for children Cadle Tabernacle,

phony activities for the season. Dr. Howard Harrington

Sevitzky and manager 9 through 12. now are Promises another summer season

Dr. Lee G. Norvelle, who directs announces ‘Heart-break House,” Jan. 19 and

in 20; “Dark of the Moon," Mar. 2, and a tour, 3. 9 and 10; the Jordan River

plete the Sa (21, ‘and Romeo aad juliet May

Dr. Norvelle also

starting plans for the 1951-52/at the Brown County Playhouse,

season. they will be “shopping” for so ists in New York. » a » THE CURRENT Martens series) will have Ferruccio Tagliavini in| tenor recital at 3. p. m. Sunday, Jan. 21, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at 8:30 p. m. Mon day, Feb. 26, both in the Murat

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Gladys Alwes, Martens manager, here will be discussed at & meet-| ing of Indianapolis Theater Association officials Jan. 8. Best guess

announces a similar seasonal pro-

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{present Oscar Straus’ “{Dream” Jan. 12 and 13 in | Athenaeum auditorium,

In the next few weeks, Nashville, with nine performances each of four popular plays, following |sons’ practice.

the past two successful sea-

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the play will feature Included fn the ca st are: atharine Pantzer, Sara Lauter, Robert Loomis, Robert Cook, Walter Pippert, Julian Bamberger, Margaret Eastridge, Helen Morton, Nancy Lynch, Rita Small and Connie Jenkins. Newcomers in the play’s personnel will be: Tommy Wade: ton, Marguerite Farkas, Mary Louise Bundy, Alice Fath, Mary Lou Pfaffenberger and. Laura Jean Ray, Fredric Rhoades, technical director, and David Morton, sound effects man, both will have parts {in the production. :

a 1951 season, provided the cooperative, contingent agreement can be renewed with local talent

and the various unions involved. |

| Undoubtedly ‘here will be numierous additions to this list, which will be noted in these pages when {they are announced. : : | . Herron Art Museum is planning fone of its most interesting series {of exhibitions, starting Jan. 7 with a selection of contemporary American paintings from the Carnegie Institute. A show of Scandinavian arts and crafts, Feb. 11 to Mar. 18, will be: followed by an exhibition of paintings, both new and old, by American Indians, and. -an important April show of contemporary British paintings. {The annual Indiana Artists Exhibition, Apr. 29 through June 3, will finish the current season.

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sets or more in 1951.

Production Slash Seen But Korea, and the deteriorat-| ing international situation, changed all that. Latest industry estimates of TV set production for 1951 ranged from a low of 4,000,000 to an admittedly optimistic forecast of 6,000,000. | According to the Radio-Tele-| vision Manufacturers Association, | production of TV sets in 1950 will! approach 7,000,000 when all the figures are in. However, the RTMA declined to make a prediction of what production in [1051 might be in view of the quickly changing international picture. Even before the recent reverses lin Korea the Association had esti{mated that both radio and TV] production in“ "the first 19514 quarter would be cut as much as! 40 per cent. . Radio Declining i

| The phenomenal growth of tele-|~

vision is illustrated by the fact! that in 1948 Americans owned 200,000 TV sets, Today there are! between 6,500,000 and 9,000,000 sets in use, This astounding growth has been achieved in the face of component shortages, the freeze on| new TV stations since late 1948.

Met Star Coming |

Ferruccio Tagliavini, leading tenor of the Metropolitan pera's ltalian repertoire, will appear in recital at 3 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at the Murat,

| as the season's third attraction

on the Martens Concerts series.

| \composition” was born of necesi isity. Back in the early 1920's, ,

what he calls it on the lecturerecitals he has given extensively before music clubs.

Born of Necessity A lot of his skill in “instant

Anis Fuleihan . . : Nobody ever knew the difference.

|young Fuleihan, native .of the sions, which he still refuses: toa whopping royalty payment on {island ‘of Cyprus and star pupil specify, he even extemporized the [behalf of the French equivalent of the great piano pedagog Al-|piano part for one or another of of ASCAP. The Frenchman inberto Jonas, started concertizing. his own piano-and-orchestra com- | sisted that all Mr. Fuleihan's | “Managers used to ask me’ to positions. “I hadn't had time to mythical “modern composers” {play contemporary works. I was learn the piece after I wrote it; were members of his society. Ex{too busy to sit down and learn so I just told the composer to re- planation was a bit difficult. {them. Rather than say I couldn’t/lax and not worry—I'd keep with| Improvising is not the only mu{do it, I just put down on programs him,” he said. {sical experimenting Mr. Fuleihan {whole strings of mythical compo-| Repeating Difficult {has done. Also back in the "20's, sitions by mythical composers,”| One thing the improviser has when he used to make pianola he explains, Ito do is follow a definite plan. “I rolls for Aeloian-Duo-Art, he tried The beginning of this musical found I had to organize carefully new ways of playing the rolls. “double life” was at his second anything I extemporized, other- One big experiment was taking {recital in New York’s old Aeolian [wise I'd be in a predicament if the féur-hand transcriptions of Bee{Hall “I played a whole ‘modern’ audience wanted me to repeat a thoven symphgnies, turning them igroup, mostly made up as I went given piece. Many a time I did upside down, so that treble played ‘along. Nobody ever knew the dif- have to repeat something. It was bass and vice versa, and then ference,” he told me. {never identical the second time, playing them backwards, i | The thrill and perils of impro- but it was close enough so that| “It sounded as if it didn’t be(vising seemed to take hold of nobody noticed the difference.” |long to this earth at all, but it (him. He would do such risky| Just before a concert he was made beautiful musical sounds. It {stunts as ad-libbing a whole so- giving in Cairo, Egypt, Mr. Fu- had logical form and rhythmical nata or fugue in front of a mu-|leihan was approached by a gim- structure. It was just out of this {sical society. On certain occa-ilet-eyed Frenchman demanding world,” he concluded.

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ROME, Dec. 30 (CDN)—There's Rome Playhouse opened this ganized the Student American

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MURAT Grand Ole Opry, stage revue, at 11 pm

CIRCLE Mr. Music,” with Bing and Nancy Olson, at 12:2

6:45, 9:55 and 1. “Call of the Klondike,” with Kirby , 8:45 and 12.

Grant, at 225 3.38 “Night Train,” with Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood, at 35

Crosby 5, 3:35,

10:40 39 Steps.” with Robert Donat and i Carroll, at 3:15, 6:20 and BN INDIANA “For Heaven's Sake,”

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with Clifton Joan Bennett. at 1:45 5. 8:10, 10:20 and 12:30.

Are,” with Ingrid Berg120, 3:25, 5:35 7:40 and LOEW'S / “Pagan Love Song,” with Esther Williams and Howard Keel, at 1:11, 51, 6:34. 9:17 and 12. “The Tougher They Warne Morris, at 2:31,

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“Where Danger Lives.” with Faith Domergue and Robert Mitchum, at 110, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:05. “The Blazing Sun.” with Gene Autry, at 1, 3:15. 6 and 8:50. ay Zee, magician and h¥pnotist, on stage at 12 m.

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{its most ambitious project—the somehow had been begged, bor-

a new American export showing month with “Boy Meets Girl,” & nfedical Association today to preup in Europe—the community lit- comedy that lightly kids Holly- ,are members “to meet the mortle theater. [Wood and the movie business gen- ,; anq ethical obligation of the Groups of earnest young Amer- ETL. ' - |profession.” {lcans, mostly students, are bring-| e star is “Miss Illinois off warren R. Mullen of Jackson, ing American-style plays, in Eng- 1949," lovely blonde Trudy Germily,... o gtudent at the Univerlish, to two capitals of Europe— of Chicago, Ill, who won a .. "0, Michigan Medical School, as pure private enterprise, not scholarship to Rome as a reward | o% elected president of the new government propaganda. (for placing third in Atlantic City’s yo <iootion. The idea started with the big Miss America contest. ; The association will be made American colony in Paris. The| When the curtain went up the| S580 a O8 WO BS TCS Ph American community theater mostly-American, partly-Italian _, approved by the Council there already has weathered two audience stirred with surprise at| 08 am Education of the seasons and gone on to present the sleek, professional set that), =... . ‘Medical Association

i 1 musical, “Knickerbocker Holi- rowed and bargained for, and| |day.” painted by the Dublin designer|§ {| Here in 'Rome, a little theater Liam O’Kell. jopened last winter, brought the! The cast of 18 Americans, one | {sprawling American community Englishman, and one Portuguese] {together for a series of four plays, had rehearsed six and eight hours {then quietly, and honorably, suc- a day for three weeks without! cumbed to financial troubles. pay. Most surprising of all, a few The idea refused to die, how- of Rome's smartest Italian dressever, and this month, more eager makers and modistes donated land determined than ever, another costumes—never before offered in {group of Americans has formed the business-like eternal city. ithe “Rome Playhouse.” Using ac- Copyright, 1950, for The Indianapolis Times | tors from “Quo Vadis” and other American movies made in Italy,

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In 1951, the figure is vague, but’

leveryone agrees that it will be considerably smaller than in 1950.

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