Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1951 — Page 9

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Loss of Brifish Sub Highlights Film Here

J. Arthur Rank Picture ‘Operation Disaster’

Closely Parallels Recent Tragedy in Channel By HENRY BUTLER THE LOSS this week of the British submarine Affray tragically highlights the J. Arthur Rank documentary, “Operation Disaster,” coming to the Lyric next Thursday. “ Besides that harrowing film story of a lost submarine, other major offerings will include “Raton Pass, a western with new angles (Circle, Thursday); “Of Men and Music,” a big concert-artist deal (Esquire, next Friday); a re-| turn visit of the Biblical extrava- portant orchestral sequence with ganza, “Samson and Delilah” (In- Mr, Mitropoulos. diana, Wednesday), and “The Great Caruso,” in a Loew's open-| ho he ur le bill is the British ing postponed Irom today to next P Are, lude to Fame,

Saturday. Fo 5.8.8 “Raton Pass” is a story of] “SAMSON AND DELILAH” is

sharp conflict between old-time another gargantuan epic dedicatranch kings and homesteaders ed to the proposition that Cecil B in the New Mexico territory. The pn, . : cast 18 headed by Dennis Morgan, Mille is filmdom’s greatest crewith two leading ladies: Patricia 30 Neal, cast as an ambitious, It was summarized in these

money - hungry villainess, and pages a couple of seasons ago, on

Dorothy Hart, as the girl Who jt first jocal visit. All that's

£u s Miss Neal in Morgan's! DE TEATS necessary this time is a reminder

Miss Neal's machinations, after that the hugely expensive proshe has married Morgan for his duction stars Victor Mature, as property, stir up enormous trouble Samson, and Hedy Lamarr, as!

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in the Raton Pass region. It Delilah, with versatile G rge|

wouldn't be fair to give away the ending, except to say that Miss Neal gets deserved punish-| ment. There's plenty of shooting! and fast riding in the film, made largely on location. i ” » » i “OF MEN AND MUSIC” is a glorified concert in which Jascha| Helfetz, Artur Rubinstein, Nadine Conner, Jan Peerce and the New| York Philharmonic-Symphony, |

with Dimitri Mitropoulos conduct-|oreater fame than the late John

ing, give a ‘program more costly, than most of us will ever hear) in the round. | The picture resulted in part from the experiment Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Cen-tury-Fox, tried a year or so ago when he arranged for the Phil-| harmonic-Symphony to play a couple of weeks at New York's Roxy Theater. At the time, the experiment was widely hailed as the first appearance of a symphony orchestra in a movie house. | That statement was somewhat exaggerated, in view of the Roxy's own program when it opened nearly 25 years ago. A full symphony program, with the orchestra on stage conducted by the late Erno Rapee, who later went to Radio City Music Hall, was a regular Sunday morning, feature before the first of the day's shows. “Of Men and Music” gives long

Sanders in the unlikely role of the! Saran of Gaza. { The picture’s in color, with, enormous sets and big mob scenes, both festive and military, | in the manner Mr. DeMille made| famous 30 years ago. ss 2 = ! “THE GREAT CARUSO” is given a brief pictorial summary at the foot of this page. {

Caruso achieved probably even

Close competitors in concert box- ytaljan importation, acts and|with recent Italian operatic! Cherry are principals in "Operation Disaster” (Lyric, Thursday); | | movies. | Scott Forbes, Patricia Neal and Dennis Morgan are a stormy trio

office and total sales of records.

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and short shots of Heifetz and ¥ Rubinstein doing their customary :

marvels on fiddle and piano. It also presents Miss Conner and Mr. Peerce in operatic solos and duets, and, of course, the Phil-harmonic-Symphony in an’ im-

TIME OUT—Debra (“Bird of Paradise") Paget takes time out from studio work for a little sunning on the California coast.

Preview: 'The Great Caruso’

Mario Lanza (left), in the title role of "The Great Caruso" (Loew's, next Saturday), starts his climb fo operatic fame in Naples. After some discouragements, he returns to Naples to tell his father of his success in gettting an engagement

In this film biography of the! The picture, containing excerpts! golden-voiced Neapolitan, Mario, from familiar grand operas, is an; are Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, as Samson and Delilah, in

McCorm , th 0 W | ack, though the two were; .. the Metropolitan's new|example of American competition|

Benjamin influences other boxholders against the new tenor, : who gets a cool reception on his first night. But Benjamin's daugh- Caruso, who is regarded as socially inferior by the “old-New- trouble. One evening he is scheduled to sing the ter, Dorothy (Ann Blyth), encourages Caruso, tells him to sing to York-family" set the Benjamins belong to. The happiness of their - difficult role in 2

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Times SATURDAY, APR. 21, 1951

“OPERATION DISASTER" Siu

Circle "RATON PASS"

SCREEN CHARACTERS—In an Oriental setting of luxury

| the film of that name (Indiana, Wednesday); John Mills and Helen |

” . | in "Raton Pass” (Circle, Thursday), and Metropolitan singers. Na- | Esquire | “OPERATION DISASTER” dine Conner and Jan Peerce are heard in "Of Men and Music” | y | seems to have been inspired by! (Esquire, next Friday). {the loss in January, 1950, of the a —

| ® {British submarine Trucutent,T el} 1 T Freee etree este Et tio hich sank tn the Thames sores 183 0 r eatment Iter College, she was studying for] UNLIKE MOST movie starlets,

|with a loss of 64 of her 79 crew By PATRICIA. CLARY la master’s degree at Columbia Piper Laurle prefers a sheepskin |members after being rammed by! United Press Staff Correspondent When she began modeling for While other voung beautios aie |a Swedish tanker. | oa1q HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 21—Helena Carter, beautiful but not dumb, Harry Conover. Fidel a EE hoora are | This week, the tragedy of the tps Shes hored ax glu) ows who treat her as if she had! She made so much money as 2 rhumba with movie producers, Affray is a grime reminder of the Miss Carter reads the front page before she turns to the movie! model she couldn't afford to stay) Miss Laurie is home pounding the {terrible hazards of undersea craft. gossip columns, she knows several words of three syllables or more in school. And from magazine school books, Sqmeday she this |The picture's drama is not only and sometimes she even reads a book. re covers it was a quick step to the She 1 haye - Squeation, while ; In trad of being talked down, oe | cameras of Hollywood. Ray % oye mya 0,” she . “Mos *S-EAS £ / | a , | . i lout stint more in the contrast be- re sa Most men you date, ITS-EA Y to see why men fit But I haven't lost my love of, The red-haired starlet’s work in ywood — and that means Miss Carter into the beautiful-but-| ducation.” sh i “r |“Franci the R. " at {tween life on board and their life not only actors but also writers dumb class. She has flaming CH OB, tas . oa S$ ion Hane 8 Ses bo - cee - |ashore. |and directors—operate as if you natural red hair, a face that er are Tae. R e Tore ol BE te ors on eps ae Coupled with “Operati ./were a beautiful doll with nothing launched a thousand magazine g an 0 Wen lo theo) lusy oso gular um ouple t Operation Dis Mocambo with whom versity. So she has become the {aster” is “Target Unknown,” a il your head but thoughts aboutcovers and a figure that gets) “ ) Vv ole rg { , 1£ dh jes 1 . | Miss Carter doesn’t want to only student in one of the world's {World War II action drama of Yourself and the movies. |Whistles every time she walks on| ve the Impression that her idea|strangest colleges. | |AAF bombing operations over| “If a girl tries to discuss pol-/the set of Warners’ “Ft. Worth.”| +o class “A” date is a discussion| She is taking a full course in Europe, wtih Mark Stevens, Alex|itics, world affairs or books, they| But this beauty is deceiving. of Elizabethan novels. |languages, literature and philosoNicol, Robert Douglas, Don Tay-|look startled, then wary, and then Miss Carter might just as well be| “I just want dates who can talk| phy with Gladys Hoene, in charge lor, Joyce Holden and Gig Young|take off for girls with minds of a teaching courses in English litera- intelligently. But I love a good|of the studio school at Universal in the cast. {less complicated nature.” (ture. After graduating from Hun- rhumba too,” she said. | International.

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Despite strong opposition from her father, Dorothy marries Some years later, Caruso develops throat

Martha." Dorothy fries to pers

fo sing in La Scala, taly's leading opera, in Milan. From La Scala, the next step the genuine musicloving listeners in the gallery. Caruso does so, marriage is complete when a Sauder whom they name Gloria, suade him not fo sing, but to save his voice.

ard is the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where Caruso. is well received

by fellow singers, but makes an enemy of Park Benjamin, one of the wealthy patrons. Dorothy.

and scores a huge success. That is the start

his romance with is born fo them. Caruso, now in the prime of life, is reaching a insists on singing, and the appearance is one - pinnacle of financial reward. : ; . it his last. i