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- SUNDAY, FEB. 11, 1951 Record Review—
Columbia Releasing Classic in English
Strauss’ ‘Fledermaus’ fo Be Available On Long-Playing and Standard Discs
“FLEDERMAUS" is the big word with record dealers and colle¢tors right now. It fs the title of the scintillating light opera by Johann Strauss which has been captivating music-lovers with | ju hugieful he and Jomaniie story for nearly 75 years, and which n ernized into a smash h t I Now on A mnt at the Metropolitan What we record folks are ex- sang it on the Met stage. Eugene cited about, and pleased by no Ormandy, Fone Bee logs end, is that Columbia Records has of the Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded the complete new version as an opera conductor with the of “Fledermaus” in English, and Met's “Fledermaus” production, | is releasing it this week in albums conducts the chorus and orches-! of two 12-inch long-playing (3315 /tra of the Metropolitan Opera’ rpm) records or 12 standard (78 Asseciation. | % rpm) records. - | Miss Pons sings the role of : Strauss effervescent “Fleder- Adele, the flirtatious and equally, maus music has now been ambitious maid of the Operetta’s | £ wrapped around fresh new lyrics heroine, Rosalinda. Highlights of| | in colloquial English by Howard the recording are her singing of Dietz, who did the lyrics for such'the famous “Laughing Song” and! outstanding musical comedies as the well-known “Audition Song.” “The Bandwagon” and “Inside 8 8 =» U. 8. A”, and witty dialogue by] LJUBA WELITCH sings the the noted playwright Garson role of the come-hither Rosalinda. | Kanin. Everybody can now under- Richard Tucker is her former! stand the words and follow the lover, and Charles Kullman is story, as well as enjoy the voices her philandering husband. John and the orchestra. |Brownlee is the suave ballet-|
" 2 o | | SINGERS, conductor and or- master, Dr. Falke, otherwise
‘known as “Fledermaus” or “The' Chestra are just about the best gj» Martha Lipton takes the
in the business. Lily Pons, Ljuba! : {part of Prince. Orlofsky, a wealthy | Welitch, Richard Tucker, Charles| young dilletante. |
Kullman, Martha Lipton and One of the most eagerly antici-|
John Brownlee, together with]| : {pated Metropolitan productions in| the other members of the original “Wedermaus”. has be-|
Met cast, have made the record-|Occa0¢s: ing of “Fledermaus” just as they
Oscar Candidate
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it there, the new Columbia re-|
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DOWNTOWN AMBASSADOR "City Lights” and ‘‘Pertect Day.” OHIO—"Winchester 73” and “Square Dance Katy." REGENT—"Escort Girl” and ‘The Wanga'’ Tus select shorts. “Whispering Smith” and Money.” NEIGHBORHOOD ARLINGTON—''Never a Dull and ‘‘Surrender.”
AVALON—'"Flame and the Arrow” “Fifty Years Before Your Eyes.”
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Mullendore, 2202 N. Spencer Ave. new talent to replace them, or|reprint after a while, and start
Pfe. James Mullendore will be
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! and| Great Lakes Naval Hospital near gold down the river of commer- and the world of jazz will be ours “Cheaper by the Dozen” and “The Chicago. |
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By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10 (NEA)—Don'’t be surprised if the announced “All About Adam’ never gets before the cameras because of Joseph Mankiewicz's allergy to sequels. He recently vetoed “Here's Addie,” with the same characters who romped through his Oscar winning “Letter to
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Current films at the neighborhood theaters include: Bing |come a leading attraction of the, Crosby and Nancy Olson in "Mr. Music" (Belmont, Emerson, current season. It is one of the, Grove and Hamilton), Fred MacMurray, William Demarest. and Metropolitan's greatest successes’ |rene Dunne in ''Never a Dull Moment" Arlington, Belmont, Daisy, in 67 years, with sold-out houses Granada, Strand and Uptown), James Stewart in "Broken Arrow"
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(When Dave Garroway suecumbed to the lure of the coaxial cable, TV robbed radio of a top disc-jockey and it took from his disc-spinning a rare
lost my love of jazz. On the other kind of music merchant, a guy | ‘hand, I'm almost glad I'm no Who played nothing but good |
| longer picking tunes for a record music. show. (Today's guest columnist is
As far as I can see, the crop of | Mr. G., now too busy accepting the last year has produced nothing awards as a top TV star and but hill-billy, mamba and novelty| on network radio shows’to give junk, none of it worth'the vax it’s the spoken word that frequently letcned on : | guidéd his listening public's hn : a | record buying. But if Dave There’s’one notable eXception— ‘were still holding forth on those {the Benny Goodman Carnegie {Hall LP. And that was cut in 1937. | But where are the Georzs thing like this on the current |Shearing’s like *“Consternation?”| ¢rop of I''tle black biscuits. | Where is the spirit of Woody Her-| —Donna Mikels.) | man’s “Bijou” and “Apple Hon- - ey?” Where is the Duke Elling-'to blame, but if people didn’t buy {ton who made “Moon Mist?” The the junk, the companies wouldn't Louis Armstrong who sang “Back produce it. On the other hand, | o' Town Blues?” Where is the there used to be enough of us simply complex Sarah Vaughan to force the companies to throw, jof “If You Could See Me Now?” us some wax crumbs from their { These people are all my friends, tables of otherwise inedibles. There's only one solution—don’t {to the point of idolatry. But none buy the bad new stuff, ask for | of them have the spark they had and keep asking for the good old {two years ago. And where is the stuff. They'll run out of stuff to
WMAQ, he might say some- |
{compete with them and urge looking around for talent, encourage the basically good people Somehow, I suspect, we've been they've forced into commerciality,
(Garfield and Rex), Gary Cooper and Ruth Roman in “Dallas” James Cagney in "The West Poi Hale and Larry Parks in “Emergency Wedding" (Rivoli, Sheridan, St. Clair, Strand, Uptown and Zaring).
Plays Civic Role te is wearing a $10,000 mink
midnight chats on Chicago's 7
Three Wives.” Says Mankiewicz: “Sequels are like second honeymoons,
—the spark is gone.” * 8 8 | CONSTANCE SMITH, . Fox’s| Gaelic version of Hedy Lamarr,| is due to wed John Boulting, the (British film producer. . . . Daria| | Massey, the pretty teen-ager who plays Jennifer Jones’ sister in “Carrie,” is tussling with her first! | grown-up part in “Lady Be Good” {at the Hollywood Playhouse. . , . | Frank Sinatra, who could use the (money, is needling his agents to |get him a new movie deal. {dream boy wasn't kidding when {he told Monica Lewis: “Next time you're at MGM, drop in on wardrobe and say hello to my old sailor suit.” » ” » JOAN ORAWFORD, chewing) and clicking the inevitable knitting needles that are her re-| hearsal trademark, is the big at- | traction on stage 12 at Warner's where “Goodby, My Fancy” is before the cameras.
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to the motion picture industry.” He said: “Theater owners must prepare for big-screen television. Movies should be publicized on TV. Maybe in 20 years there won't be any theaters at all. I don't know. I wish I knew.” o n ” ANOTHER Orson Welles’ stony tickling European ribs: A U. 8, newspaper correspondent in Paris cabled his office to ask how much of the story on the opening of Qrson's production of “The Unthink= able Lobster,” a satire on Hollywood, should be covered. “Don’t file,” cabled back the office, "until someone shoets Or son.” o » s GARY COOPER isn’t joining the I-Hate-Mimics Club. It's OK with Gary if the boys pull on imaginary suspenders and mutter “Yep” and “Nope” after they anmounce, “And now my imitation of Gary Cooper.” He started the gag himself, “It was in my script on an Edgar Bergen show before the war,” Gary shrugged. “I got a lot of
gal who checks out all the mink and sable at the rental studio made a howling mistake when the coat was ordered. She entered the coat with: “One mink coat for Joan Crawford in ‘Goodby, My Fancy Pants.’ ” = » - - AS A GLAMOROUS congtesswoman Joan is returning to the college from which she was expelled many years before to receive an honorary degree, The script calls for Joan to glide past Eve Arden, as her hardbitten secretary, and look misty-eyed at the dormitory room she once occupied. Director Vincent Sherman {is pleased with the star's comedy timing. ? “Wonderful,” he says “Miss Crawford, you're liable to wind up a heckuva comedienne.” ..: - “Really?” Joan laughs. Bi “Yep,” says Sherman, ducking.
Justyn Blackwell plays the |“You're liable to be another role of Ruth in the Civic The- {Martha Raye. oe
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laughs doing it. Every mimic in the country does it now. It doesn't bother me. No harm in it that I can see.” Gary, who's rounding out 23 years as a movie star, doesn't cotton to the idea of playing the tough-grained Army colonel in any film version of Ernest Hemingway's “Across the River and Into the Trees.” He read part of the novel and says: “Hemingway should play it himself.” s s ” IN ADDITION to awards for the best movie of the year, best actor, etc, Alan Wilson predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will give a special Oscar to television as the best nuisance of the year, -.
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