Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1951 — Page 24

Mvekerenrs” Opens Tuesday

qin By Henry Butler | TUESDAY NIGHT'S opening of “The Three Musteers” begins the final trio of 1951 Starlight Musicals productions at the Fair Grounds. - Like “The Firefly,” in its last performance tonight, “The Three Musketeers” is a Rudolf Friml opus. . But it's Friml as of 1928, which is a different thing

3 from Friml as of 1912. In Gary: Phil Hirsch, Marion; Lucille the 16 years that followed Murovich, Whiting, and John ‘ . 3 : {Condie, Spring Valley, Ill. | ‘The Firefly,” Friml had had; Prof. Richard A. Moody of the, the ben:fit of competition from; yy drama faculty will direct. composers like Jerome Kern and, "ae George Gershwin, ANOTHER IU PRODUCTION, By 1928, he had to be able to the Gilbert & Sullivan “Mikado,” concoct richer, more significent which opened Friday and will music than had satisfied audi- still have another performance ences In 1912. And though he tonight, will be repeated next|® went backward in history for his|Friday, Saturday and Sunday in book, he chose a theme that ren- East Hall on the Bloomington ders well into an operetta—cos- campus. ‘ tumes, swordplay and all. | Under joint direction of Law- , # 8 =» {rence Carra, stage director; Ernst . BEFORE going on with de- Hoffman, music director, and| ig tails of the cast, I might say Theda Taylor, technical director, gs again that this year's Starlight the operetta is the second of three

! steadily to be get-/ TU School of Music summer pro- ig : j te a sled Rhy gel aucticns this season. EIGHT-FOOTED TRIO—Harold Patrick and Betty Ann Busch,

: ae i " keteers," greet a four-footed dge and con- It will be followed by the sea- heading the cast of "The Three Mus rs," g Top oye KnoWiedes son's most ambitious venture! friend also currently rehearsing at the Fair Grounds. Mr Patrick Leading next Tuesday's cast “Lost In the Stars” the Kurt| and Miss Busch will open with the third Starlight Musicals produc-

Bett Ann Busch as Weill-Maxwell Anderson opera jon next Tuesday evening. ul be rh Harold Patrick based on Alan Paton’s novel of S as D'Artagnan, both of Broad- race-relations in South Africa, » ° » x way. Mr. Patrick earlier this sea- “Cry, the Beloved Country,” | nt usiastic oosiers

son played Frank Butler in “An- which opens In East Hall July 27. nie Get Your Gun.” Sete ————————————— Others in the large cast will ‘include Doris Patston, as Lady

Haylofts Stealing ‘Attend Cincinnati Opera

D& Winter (no relation, appar- | CINCINNATI Bpeelal 10. The | £30UY made the ‘four-act opera 4 - . ’ J 1 8 $ . Som I ently, to Rebecca of Daphne Du Romantic Scenes | sixth annual Indianapolis night a visual treat ome excellent

Maurier’'s novel); William Cook, of Civic Theater experience, as Planchet; Charles Dosch, also a @Givic player, as the Cardinal de Richelieu; Charles Aschmann, as the Count de Rochefort, and Patti Browne, as Queen Anne. Also Malcolm Beggs, as Louis feel right at home in a movie love XIII; Richard Winternheimer, scene. Duke of Buckingham; Edward She has found that the most Green, Capt. Treville; Robert effective love scenes on the screen — Eckles, Vernon Roth and Charlés are those played in a hayloft. Julian, as Porthos, Athos and "I don’t know what it is,” she Aramis, the three Musketeers; says. “Offhand, there doesn’t seem Patty Wilson, Zoe; Donald Thiele, 'to be anything romantic about the Sgt. Jussac; Kenneth Lemons, whole thing, when you break it innkeeper; Tom Wadelton, valet; down, unless you are a horse. John Cavosie, Fred Mertz, Rob- “A creaky, old building, the ert Srock and ‘James-Sommer, smell of new-mown hay and the =e @ardinal’s-guards, and Gene Pos- blatant sounds of farmyard aniton, bo'sun. . ° mals just don’t add up to a ro-! In Marguerite ‘de Anguera's mantic background for a tender ballet, Mary Ann Wilkinson will love scene.

{excursion to the Cincinnati Sum{mer Opera tonight drew a small but enthusiastic group of HooBy United Press siers to “Il Trovatore.” HOLLYWOOD, July 14 Teresa! In the serene and musically hisWright thinks a horse ought to toric setting here in the Zoo Pavilion, Verdi's tragedy of revenge, love and self-sacrilce seemed grimmer than ever. Costumes, settings and pag-

a treat to hear.

Stella Roman, as Leonora, won big acclaim for her confident performance of the difficult soprano role. In the Zoo Pavilion, which sometimes . is a bit unkind to voices, she sounded beautifully clear. Francesco Battaglia, as Manrico, and Frank Guarerra, as the evil count, did admirable singing and acting. | A highlight of Act II .was Margaret Harshaw’s impassioned singing as Azucena. Miss Harshaw has great vocal power and stage presence. Virgil Lazzari, as‘ Ferfando, earned big applausé for his long narrative in-Act 1. ; A newcomer to the company, Militza Kosanchich, ample oper-

From Boudoirs

As usual the Cincinnati audience was more than just courteously attentfre and responsive. This summer opera tradition has come to mean a great deal here. Tonight's excursion dianapolis was sponsored Gladys Alwes, Indianapolis representative of the Cincinnati Summer Opera.—H. B.

Jean Perry and Luan Buckhorn. forget the boudoir romancing.”

a. 8 8 Miss Wright finds her theory : IN NASHVILLE, the Brown getting additional support in her Gounty Playhouse tonight winds 1, est picture — “California Conyp its three, week-ends of A quest.” For her big love scene with ~ Murder Has Been Arranged. Cornel Wilde in that film, she

. Starting next Friday will finds herself surrounded not by

be “The Barker,” Hoosier-born Ken- perfumed elegance of a boudoir but the pitchfolks and lanterns

n Nicholson's stage success, to of a hayloft.

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n four week-ends.

# Heading the cast of this drama SOLOIST—Kay Fields is vo.

gt carnival life will be Don me adults ea 10 Hones cal soloist with Billy Moore and | ———————_——_ sev ic jancy, Micigan OY i hay. Some of her predecessors h band, new rounding out Complete Dinners

arker. Dody Henley, Bloomington, will play the feminine lead of ¢arrie, the hula dancer who is the Barker's love interest. Both Indiana University graduate students, they were selected last year | as the best character actor and |

actress in Dr. Lee Norvelle's IU Work Rewarded Theater.

have been Jane Russell in “The Outlaw,” Linda Darnell in “Storm . Warning,” Silvana Mangano in Russian Roulette

“Bitter Rice” and Virginia Mayo “4 or i a ~%<sd oo r in “Along the Great Divide, Proves Fatal to Playe Dee North on Keystone to Ruth Drive A young man played Russian | west to the river. roulette last night and lost. = a Wilbur Huskins, 20, shot him-

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Julie Strong, Bloomington, will. PROVIDENCE, R. I. (UP) — self to death in a room at the OO Gas ine play Lou, the snake charmer. The harder you work the soqner Hazel Hotel, 329'; Indiana Ave. David Watson, Wabash, will por- you get out of state prison here. He invited another hotel resitray the Barker's naive son. Gov. Dennis J. Roberts signed a dent, Joseph R. Hackley, to play &> Also In the cast will be Jack law under which two days will the deadly bame, but Mr. Hack- yr Strain and James Purkhiser, be subtracted from a convict's ley refused. » Jewelers Bloomington; Robert Foor, East sentence for each month he works Police said Mr. Huskins had Next Door fo. Indiana Theatre

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Be prima ballerina in an Oriental # a =n atic Dagmar type, does better as ahs number, also doing a "pas “BUT THAT'S the scene the an actress than as a somewhat e quatre” with Mary Ruth Siebe, fans remember—long after they wobbly-voiced singer. 1

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By DONNA MIKELS WITH “SHOW BOAT” tied up to dock in Indianapolis, it's only fitting to mention the new M-G-M album of the wonderful Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II se-

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help questioning the sagacity of the producer who let Jush-voiced Lena Horne slip by the board in favor of Ava Gardner. the album taken from the film sound track is generally enjoyable. The album .comes In three speeds to suit either standard, 33or 45-rpm record players Other new releases include: " » n MERCURY—Whoooosh, is all we can say after a week of relistening to the fine jazz item produced by Johnny Hodges and a group of greats under the direction of Mr. Jazz himself, Norman

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{tured on his own composition |“Castle Rock” along with Sammy |Greer’s Rembrandt-like brushing. The second side—if one of two sidés of equal excellence can be! 80 termed—pours forth that melted honey Hodges alto on the old standard “Jeep Blues,” with some soulful trombone work by Lawrence Brown. A new singing star frem Chicago, Tony Fontane, reaches out for stardom on Mercury label and |his two latest efforts feature him

ers quartet on “Losing You” and (“Bring Another Jug of Wine.”

G. & S. REVIVAL—In the cast of "The Mikado, Indiana University School of Music this week-end and next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, are (left to right) Frank Blanning, Hanover; Sher Lee Cheek, Indianapolis; Howard Kahl, New Albany; Diane Grif. fith, Des Moines, la., and Earl Jones, Ithaca, N.Y. . All performances are at 8:15 p.m. in East Hall

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New Masonic Music Album Produced by IU Groups

: were the Philharmonic Orchestra, { BLOOMINGTON, July 14—The Male Choir, Oswald Ragatz, or- : {New York Music and Record Co. ganist; with Piper Laurie and Tony Curtis, {has released an album of Mozart's Richard Edward, Robert Hale, » 4 an . “Katie Did It.”

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By Its Star, F DOUGLAS

I've just returned from a tflp around the country, where I attended a series of press ‘screenings of my latest picture, “ACE IN THE HOLE.” Never in my entire caréer, including “CHAMPION,” has a picture stirred up the heated controversial discussions that greeted this film.

Many people said it’s stark and pitiless.

Even more said that “ACE IN THE HOLE” is vivid... exciting . . . realistic. That it portrays true-to-life people as they really react to a desperate situation.

You know there are women as greedy, as heartless, as un. faithful as Lorraine, played by Jan Sterling.

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I think American audiences are adult enough to appreciate the impact of this frank, hard-hitting picture, especially as brought to the screen by Billy Wilder, whose equally powerful pictures, “The Lost Weekend,” and “Sunset Boulevard” were universally acclaimed.

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