Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1951 — Page 25

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j Stage and - Play Ruth

Music— ‘Depicts less Reds

By Henry Butler

ONE OF THE most important student drama projects this season will be DePauw University's production -of

¥Parkness at Noon” next Th $4: DePauw is one of six un

ursday, Friday and Saturday. jversity- dramatic groups that

have received permission from Sidney Kingsley to present his play, currently a box-office leader among serious Broad-

wiy dramas. Dr. Herold T. Ross, head of

PePauw’s speech department, f= directing this Indiana premiere of the powerful stage adaptation of Arthur Koestler's novel about Communist ruthlessness. . Heading the cast of the play, which will be put on in DePauw’s

lout of two actors who performed in the year of this survey had {gross earnings up to $760. The (lowest one-fourth made $305 or {less, One in four made $2540 or jmore. Half of those working earned between $305 and $2540." This is ‘on top of other melanicholy statistics. New York now thas one-third the number of le-

Little Theater, is Earl Bark, Am-igitimate theaters it had 25 years

herst, O., as Rubashov, the Russian commissar and Red Army general who is accused of party deyiation, Mr, Bark recently flew

lago. It annually sees less than {one-half the number of new productions it saw 25 years ago. Among remedies suggested

ew York to see Claude Rains pave heen cost-cutting and hence

he taxing stellar role.

» » ” JEAN MURPHY, Park Ridge, Til, will play the feminine lead, Luba. Other important parts will be played by Charles Aschmann, qn ncastle, and Ira Brown, Niles. Mich. as the prison offi ciils who obtain Rubashov's confession; Dave Stockwell, Evanston; Ill, as Prisoner 4602, and Richard Luigi, the Italian striker. Also in the cast of 20 are: Bruce Walker, Laurel, Miss; David Yé&nimore and George Ziegelmullev, Indianapolis; Lee Cooper, } ymeatine; Iowa; Chauncey Isenhour, Anderson; William Graham, Marion; Bill chitle; Dave Roberts, Whiting;

Loring, New York, as

Lockwood, Green-

downward-scaling of ticket prices. But a major difficulty still remaining: is one which Miss Jones grapples with in her plan for 20 iresident professional theater companies in 20 American cities, It's {the problem of too great centralization of legitimate theater In New York,

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IT'S CONVENIENT for pro-| ducers, directors and backers to! have a reservoir of talent handy. New York can do bigger and bet-| ter legitimate productions than] any other American city, since | actors, technicians, designers and

Little Theater, Greencastle. It will

its way than there's reason why! an Everest expedition or a dash to the Pole should pay its way, Ideally, that is. Practically, course, we have to make adjustments and compromises, Artists must eat, and to eat they must earn. When we understand better the service artists perform for

run three night:.

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BIG PROJECT—Lee Cooper, Muscatine. lowa; Charles Aschmann, Grsdhcastle: Jean Murphy, Park Ridge, Ill, and Earl Bark, Amherst, O., (left to right) are an important foursome in "Dark. ness at Noon," which will have its first Indiara performance next Thursday in DePauw University's

Herron Art School 4 [Grads to Receive Diplomas Sunday

Hérron Art School will hold its 26th annual commencement at 3 p. m. next Sunday in the school milding. Prof. James Shipley of the University of Illinois fine arts department will be principal speaker, with the topic, “The Other Point of View.” Anton Scherrer, president of the Art Association of Indianapolis, will present certificates, diplomas and awards. Donald M. Mattison, director of the school, will , nen the annual student exhibition for the summer months, A tea for graduates and guests will follow, Four-year . students to receive certificates are: Charles C. Gray, William J. Hart, Lois M, Jackson, all of Indianapolis; Jack B. Clary, Logansport; Jéhn M., Marozan, South Bend; Edward M. Norman-| din, Providence, R. 1.; James F. Reno, New Castle; Ethel W, Richter, ' Poquonnock Bridge. Conn.; Donald C. Robertson, Springfield,

Ill.; Russell Gene Schram, Peru; James C. Snodgrass, Jeffersonville, and Keith Von Cannon,

Camden, N, J. The degree of bachelor of fine art will be conferred on the following fifth-year graduates: Rosemary Browne Beck, Joanne Cald-

James Pease to Sing During: Donald E. Carmichael, Ralph

Times Siate Serviee

FRANKLIN, June 2

York City Opera Co. and Franklin College alumnus, will sing dur-

re’ k 1 , |costumers dre all available in us, we'll be better able to help: x Franklin College commence-

quantity. i

But the human cost of that overcrowding, with its appalling!

Alan Pollock, Oak Park, 111.; Mary) 6 oures of unemployment, is some-|

Ann Foust, Youngstown, O.; Hubert Warren, Gary; Jim Williams,

Columbus; Mildred Trares, Dan-

vile, 1I1., and Jane Dinkins, Paris, Ten, Besides DePauw, the schools witich have been granted permisgion for this production concurreptly with the Broadway run

are: Harvard, lowa State Teach- artist means starving ourselves. right kind of organization Florida Southern 1 think a good case could be popular

ere’ College,

thing else again. Among the! kinds of waste we heedlessly tolerate in this country, one of the worst is waste of talent. As I've repeatedly said before In these pages, we feed the salesman and |starve the artist. | We haven't yet reached the ma-| [turity to see that starving the

them help themselves. 1 personally favor subsidies, especially in the case of music, though we may have to call subsidies by- another name that sounds less “socialistic.” I think! we should have a national department of art functioning some-| what similarly to European min jetries of art. {

” » { HERE IN INDIANA, with the! and

understanding of the

College, the University of Omaha made for. the proposition thatiprojects, we could accomplish sevrnd Birmingham - Southern .Col- part of our often-assailed emo-|eral important things.

lege.

» ” ” FURTHER comments on Margo Jones’ “Theater in the Round,” fmehart, $3) reviewed yester-

sI'd like to quote some facts al . igures Miss Jones has com-| pill on actors’ employment. She writes: “In September of

1819. Actors’ Equity Association ,ainer the hardboiled, unyielding|ing. Once we enabled the Symwted a total membership of ,55i0ation of our conventional phony to offer musicians a real

€, : while the median figure of e*=~oyment for the year was 1 ‘that is, only 19 per cent. } imum theatrical

tional immaturity comes from ar-| tistic malnutrition. We have too |little good drama, too little good {musie, but far, far too much com. | imercially exploited mediocrity.

din of iniquity. Most of our enter-

tainment lacks quality and depth. *. = = |

We could give the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra security. We

ment exercises here June 10. Mr. Pease, son of Pr. and Mrs. Charles Pease, R. 5, Franklin, was graduated from Franklin College in 1936. He entered Indiana University School of Law, making his musical debut in 1938 when, on a dare, he tried out

Mr. Pease annual IU Jordan River Revue.

apolis

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Orcnestra, also in

Wayne Philharmonic.

for a part in the

A talent scout from the Phila-|

delphia Academy of Arts, present

could even re-name it the “In-| " at the show, asked for a private diana “Symphony” and give it a audition. The result was a $10,000

of concerts with soloists in what-

{ever other Indiana cities are in- | terested. The point is to keep the orches- amination,

on The Times Book PAZE, mp, air waves ceaselessly carry| longer season, With a brief series .o;,, a nip to the Academy.

¥ be in order here. {what the Irishman might call a

studied in Philadelphia

After passing the state bar exMr. Pease studied!

IT'S NOT LACK of talent. It's| tra going and the musicians eat- 0 in Philadelphia fos two and

economic theories to the uncon-| ventional field of art. i

| Art is not a commodity like could do significant things he's the unemploy-igiasl Not to sound too preachy, planned for a long time, but has operas.

livelihood, the orchestra woul

improve,

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Purdue Schedules Eight-Program Summer Series

Times State Service LAFAYETTE, June 2 — Eight programs are on the Purdue University summer séssion convocation series, according to Dr. Ross D. Smith, incoming convocation committee chairman. Dr. Smith, who will replace Prof. J. T. Gunn, retiring this

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SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1951

Starlight Chorus

Daily Rehearsals Start Tomorrow

First rehearsals of the singing chorus for the coming six preductions of Starlight Musicals will ba held tomorrow at 1 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. in the 4-H building at the

Fair Grounds. Edwin Biltcliffe, pianist of the Indianapolis Symphony and associate conductor of the Symphonic C:holir, will train the vocal ensemble for the coming season. under gen eral supervision of Charles Hedley, production director. Rehearsals will he continued daily except Sundays for the 37 choral members, chosen by audi tion from Indianapolis and central Indiana applicants. Besides Indianapolis, towns represented in the chorus include Veedergburg, Rushville, Batesville, Greenwood, Franklin, Shelbyville and Linton. 2 Mr Biltcliffe’s first assignment vill be preparing the singers for “Song of Norway,” operetta haged on the career of Edvard Grieg, yreatest of Norwegian composers, which will open the 1951 season June 26-July 1. Concerto in Finale Besides choir direction, Mr. Bilteliffe also will be piano soloist in the finale of the operetta, which includes a large portion of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Broadway stars Norway” will be Peggy Engel, ‘who appeared here last in “The Great Waltz,” and Wilton Clary, Laritone formerly of Indianapolis, who recently appeared with Lawrence Tihbett on Brodway in “The Barrier.” Miss Engel and

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in recitdil at 7:45 p. m. today in Horse, a Russian animated car- Mr. Clary both toured in the na-

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