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; Boat” opening Tuesday at the Fair Grounds ceron draw the largest crowds of Starlight Musicals’

wonderful collaboration between the late Jerome| 308 partner; Vernon Roth (Pats),

Lemons (Windy), Rich ard Buerkle (Rubber-Face), Edward Green (Vallon), Margaret

Clung (Ethel), Mary Cavanaugh Mother Superior

ton (Backwoodsman), John Malloy (Jeb), Carroll Reynolds

pro- (Jake) and Virginia Berry (Kim).

ot the large fund of Negro talent here, " The Dett Choral Club, Dr. Roscos Polin directing, will augment

Mr, Hedley’s regular Starlight chorus. Helen Hallums, a member of the club who formerly was golaist with the “Wings Over Jordun’ Choir, will sing the role of! Queenie. "From Chicago comes Don PlerFs Negro baritone who former1y sang with the Australian company of “Show Boat” and for a tinie was a protege of the great Feodor Chaliapin, to fill the role

Publicity is giving plenty of space to “Show Boat’s” sets, constructed by Arco Conrad, which are said to be the largest ever built for a local summer operetta, Assisting Mr, Conrad is Don Balley, who worked on the sets for the original back in 1927,

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CONTRASTING MOODS—The two principal couples in "Show Boat" here register happiness and bitterness. Happy are

| Melton Moore and Gail Manners, as Ravenal and Magnolia; bitter

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stupid persecution. The Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical favorite opens Tuesday evening at the Fair Grounds as Starlight Musicals’ final 1951 production. It will have probably the most lavish sendoff in local summer-operetta history.

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. SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1051 Strauss’ ‘Night in Venice’ [To Get Belated U. S. Trial

By United Press

NEW YORK, July 28 — The resounding success of Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” at the Metropolitan Opera last season and the subsequent interest in presenta. tions arranged for all over the country has mildly surprised

the purveyors of musical “entertainment. They knew it had popular appeal, but that it had 'so much, after all these years of presentation in various guises and in productions good, indifferent or downright bad, was not on the

As an example, the performance of the Metropolitan version in concert form at the Lewisohn Stadium in New York drew an audience of 19,000, about all the place will hold and a

with many of the baseball games and prize fights in the New York area this summer. The cast was made up of Metropolitan stars.

” ” ” WHETHER there is any connection has not been stated, but the office of 8S. Hurok, impresario,

announces that Hurok will present the Strauss operetta, “Al Night in Venice” next season. The work, which had its premiere in! 1883, has never been performed)

SOLOIST — William Bugh, young bass-baritone from Elk- | hart, will be soloist on the Indi. ana Home Economics Chorus |

in this country. : | Ruth and Thomas Martin, whol Festival, Albert P. Stewart di ! did the same service for Hurok’s| recting, next Wednesday in

current production of “Fledermaus,” are preparing a new English version based on the original libretto. Michael Kuttner and Mr. Martin will be responsible for the

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This Circus With Prayer

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The second largest circus in|paradox is the presence of the | the world never performs on Sun-| Rev. Doc Wadell, circus-born and

TeiRcLe is Goes to the Races,” with ‘Conner and Piper Laurie 7:15 and 1

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10 Up In Mabel's R: d “Getof Joe. the stevedore whose “Old| “tine Ostrios Sumer oom" an Man River” is one of the top| RODEQ--* ‘Who Done It” and ‘Trigger Aicetican songs of all time. | * NEIGHBORHOOD A LINGTON- Joan of Arc” and “A Kies| » ‘ » or Corliss.” o * vgHOW BOAT” thus will realize] *Shttation 0" the Sun” and “Bowery| gay, hat many of us have urged tor BELL als Fighting Coast Guard” and/

years, It will make Star-

BELMONT ‘Half Angel” and ‘Oh, Bu-

| closes with a religious ceremony. |

now a traveling clergyman with Mills Bros. Circus.

Living a life of humility, never

ukon Manhunt,” with Kirby Grant. at 1, 3 3 Sos and 8:55.

ht Musicals, for the first time, presentative of the entire community, w There is' every reason to be- ¥ e it will bé the most tremenus box-office success in local greretta history. | “Ir it 1s, it will help make up| fbr the depressing effect of bad weather on the 1851 Starlight

CINEMA The Thirteenth Letter” CORONETY-—"Rawhide” and ‘‘Quebec. PALSY ‘Lorna Doone” and “The Last

eal Ne ‘All About Eve” and “1001 FOUN rn LJQUARE—' ‘Haly Angel” aAR¥ELD” — Ar¥Y alentino” and “Tarzan's| GROVE Pry the Valiant" and “GooduA Hi TON ~" The ,, Outpost” “Inside the

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fpason. Added to the excellent! VW f Foisom Prison.’ LIN oy “You're in the Navy Now’ and i the Rodgers & Ham- om Wore Spurs

MECCA" Pent Point Story” and “Mon-

Rorstein Festival has had, “Show! tana" at” may finish this season in| OLIVER The Bulifiehier and, the Lady # golden blaze of glorious sol- ORIENTAL inside Straight” and “Man| TO! ALL ney. Ta | pix dB Hy tins Command” «nd| “ @ n Vans, # As previously announced, the REX Salento, and “host Catchers.” L} nge an anta Fe." ads will be Gail Manners and; | RIVOLI — That Midnight Riss’ and “Toast of New Orleans

re em miaSnollh, fn saNbEia 1 Wor s Communi, for the #nguishing herself in the R. & H. be gee To ‘Born Yesterday: a “The! festival, which gives its last per-| STA ¢ Lemon Drop and

Kid" Pix. Subma rine.’ mance tonight, starred in “The! sr."C CLAIR "The Fighting Coast Guard”

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M ay Moon” last year. nS “The Fighting Coast Guard” “Salcolm Lee Beggs, Mr. Hed-| | ACOMA 3. WR, Stock” and “Lion ¥ 8 stage director for this sea-| UXEDO. ‘Appointment With Danger’ s '. will play Cap'n Andy. Ex-| and “Dodge City’ ; prrienced on TV and Broadway, VOHH- Hall Angel” and" "A Kiss for ; Beggs recently had an im-| ZARING “Joan of Arc” and “Sealed

yetant role in “The Moon Is| iis,” with Barbara Bel ork | OLE pd Donald Cook in New York.

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hd ‘Harriet ik DIAN DRIV! a COPPEr Canyon” | “Whispering Smith

oofer., Daughter” and "The Outriders’ . THEA AIR TWIN DRIVE- IN— (EAST) 5 u » » | “Teresa” and “Force of Evil" (WEST). plod Old Summertime’ and “Circle of LOCAL PARTICIPANTS, be- EattAke DRIVE-IN “Oh, Susanna” es the Dett singers, will include! eine Bt htin east Guard. Re ullaby of ice Smith, as Mr, Julian's danc-| Broadway” QUIDIOR e

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| ‘Glamour Boy’ | helping others. His story has ap-

. | peared in several national magaAt Caleb Mills |

| Zines. The Shortridge summer dra-| About 60 couples—all happily | matics class will present a three- yharried—were united by the |act play “Glamour Boy,” at 8 clergyman of the Big Top. p.m, Tuesday in Caleb Mills Hall.| \, w,4e1) will be wtih the cirSupervised by Miss Eleanor D.|

cus when it appears here WednesTheek, the play is being coached day at the State Fairgrounds.

by Charles Epstein, Shortridge, Tomorrow he’ll be on television |sradumte. facludes: Jack Bulger, | with Gilbert Forbes at 10:15 p. m.

| Denise Clark, Phyllis Cohn, Bétty| Tuesday noon he will speak to

Copeland, Phyllis Cotton, Sandra Crouch: Thelma Deputy: Mr. Ep-| Istein, Lloyd Fine, Patsy Grager| Emily Gray, David Gullin oan nf Fo Hirsch, roy] tions. Several more are on his 'Houghland, Gail Jaffe, Jerry | tentative agenda when the circus Lewis, Nancy Payne, Anita San. comes to Indianapolis under the | gent, "Harold Steinberg, Frances Sponsorship ¢ of the Masonic Hi-12 Stricker, Nora Talesnick, Mary Club. |Ellen Virt, Carolyn Watters an | Geraldine Wekslar. Lloyd Madden add Leon Shi-| man will head the stage crew for! this final production of the sum-| {mer school class.

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Current plans call for a national tour of “A Night in Venice” before bringing it to New York in the season of 1952-53.

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CESARE SIEPI, Metropolitan Opera bass, ‘who went to Italy this summer for rest and study, has taken on some singing engagements instead. . He will be heard at the Verdi festivals in Trieste, Siena, Parma and Busseto.

among other operas, in “The Marriage of Figaro” (his first time at the Metropolitan) and in “Aida.”

” ” ” JOSEPH SZIGETI, violinist; will be heard in his first pers formance as an American citizen when he appears at Lewisohn Stadium as soloist with the Stadium Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Pierre Monteux Monday. ” ” » He will play the Beethoven Vio« lin Concerto, with which he mad his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski in December, 1925. Szigeti became an American cite

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