Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1951 — Page 28

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Tickets to Buy For October

By HENR DOWN there

SETTLE October ale while we remind you of next month's stage| and music events. It won't be history's liveliest month.

On the other hand, it won't

be the lonesome October of our ‘Howard Harrington,

¥ BUTLER with a schooner of brown|

has “Been

most immemorial year, (Good able to lure some first-chair .arold Poe! Better old Bartlett!) (tists from Dr, Sevitzky's en-| Here in to the Clvic, the Semble.

Martens Concerts series and the symphony will give us our maid]

attractions. | ‘And the university dire uit wil run two major concerts: Ayars, soprano, and

7: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Indiana University, Oct. 30.

The new Civic will be formally

“adr tHe Bost "Parking emoFIaL. CVI THERLEY wif

‘public opening of the

Ey of puppy love will be Friday, Oct.

The full title of the rebuilt/™Music schools” are turning out theater is going to be a problem for conversation, newspaper writ-time-schedule 1 would suggest that Jack Hatfield ‘and his board of

ing and theater

compiling.

directors might ~onsult with Mrs.!

Tarkington on the possibility of

an abbreviation or nickname that

Ann Jerome Hines, bass, at Purdue, Oct. 6 and tenor, at!’

Feception Oct. 3. The comedy based on Tarkington's immortal!

The new Detroit orchestra undoubtedly will turn out to be the marvelous band that budget built, {With hundreds of thousands already in the kitty, the Tigers, so to speak, can outbid coach SevitzKy's team. » » x IT'S AN OLD story, tunately not completely For years now, Dr. jriained. ns

but fortragic.

‘anapolis Symphony went on four.

Luckily, the supply of first-rate] |youngsters continues ample. Big

more proficient graduates than| there are jobs available. Conse-| quently, Dr. Sevitzky can take his| pick of excellent talent whose need is not technique, but rather, jexperience and training. i When biographies are written, | it may well turn out that Fabien

Mr. Tarkington himself might, Sevitzky is tops among American!

have approved.

imagine Mr. Tarkington would! not be too enthusiastic about so long and formal-sounding a name for the theater.

THE MARTENS series will!

bring in Charles Wagner's tour-|

ing production of “La Traviata” Oct. 17 for one Murat perform-| ance, And there are some miscel-

_laneous other Murat esents, in-

cluding a still vaguely described

Fabien Sevitzky and the Symphony will commence their 15th season with an all-orchestral pro‘Oct. 27 and 28. Major work the Brahms Fourth Sym‘phony in E minor, with a world premiere of Pickett’s Coricerto for Orchestra as Dr. Sevitzky's first

‘novelty-of the season.

Dr. _Sevitzky also “will conduct i “of Bach's Gott” 1") ‘in

the was to have done “Romeo and

and His RCA Victor Orchestre MANUFACTURERS BLDG. State Fairgrounds Mon, Sept. 1 tite Now I AM,

T,\The evening bill ‘of “Lohengrin,” : Sw of bad weather and the | through the ond.story win-

conductors in the number of ex-| ;

From vivid recollection of two cellent musicians he has devel-| wonderful talks with him, I should Ped. |

But a rather bitter pill is the) ifact that other conductors, whose | orchestras have two or three! jtimes larger budgets than the In-| 'dianapolis Symphony, get all the credit for their orchestras’ smooth playing. Often the groundwork [was laid here in the Murat during rehearsals. - = A WEEK AGO Monday I wrote ‘that the Metropolitan Opera) would be paying its first Indianapolis visit with “Die Fledermaus” Dec. 10 and 11 at Loew's Theater. No less than three prominent local musicians, including one elderly member of a family famous in Indianapolis musical history, had assured me this state-| ment was correct. And no reader, | contrary to custom, called me on the mistake. Now I discover that the Met| was here at English’s late in the! 1890s (“Don Pasquale” and “The Barber of Seville,” with Sembrich | and Edouard de Reészke heading the distinguished casts), and again in 1901 at Tomlinson Hall. On the latter visit, the company

Juliet” in the afternoon, but was late in arriving from St. Louis.

put on with some difficulty on ac-! ecessity of hoisting all scenery of

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‘CELEBRITIES—The First Drama ‘Quartet, left to right, are Charles Eaughtom Charles Boyer,

Agnes Moorehead and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. They will appear

Music for two performances of their now celebrated "Don Juan in Hell"

"Man and Superman” at 8 p. m. Oct. 12 and 13.

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“Flying Leathernecks,” with John ! Tana aad Robert Ryan. at 1, 3:55,

‘ “Triple Cross,” with Joe Kirkveod Jr, at 2:5), 5:49 and 8:54,

KEITHS

“His Kind of Woman" with Robart Mitehum and Jane Russell, st 2:45. 18 and 9:51. hs a Rose,” with Estelita and Bill Williams, at 1:15, 4:48 and 8:21.

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“The Mob.” with Broderick Craw= ford, at 1, 4 7 and 10. two of a Kind,” at 2:30, 5:30

LYRIC

i “Werewolf of London,”” with Henry 10:0, at 12:15, 2:46, 5:10, 7:35 and

“Phantom of Paris,” with Maria Montez, at 1:40, 4:05, 6:35 and 9:05.

‘When You See Pat, , So Don't all Her Ma

Bispham and. Al In th * HOLL OD, Sept. 22 (UP)— an varez in the cas It’s another example of how | - "0 of a king ‘is too much, to dangerous generalizations can be |Patricia Neal's way of thinking. about local history, musical or The two of a kind, in this case,

otherwise. | being two roles of the same type, I

IN AL IGHTER ® el. since 1 coming one right after the other. started out with a swipe from tite! The roles were those of mothers.

office copy of Bartlett's Familiar which she played in “The Day the|

‘Quotations, here's something elses! ” from the saine source. Earth Stood Still” and again in

He who goes to bed, and goe |Universal- -International’s ET eng EOS end With Father.” Falls as the leaves do, and | “I hope I'm not being typed,” dies in October: | Miss Neal said. ! But he who goes to bed and This business of rearing fami goes to bed mellow, {lies on the screen is giving m . Lives as he ought to do, and! |ideas and that’s bad enough,” con i dies an honest fellow. «(tinued the glamorous, unattached That's from a “catch” or “gles” actress. “But at 25, I'd hate to be-| based on a song in the tragedy come known as a screen mother; “The Bloody Brother,” by John| and nothing eise.” rad Fletcher (1579-1625). : Her answer to the problem isla. Anyway, see you next month, that she plans to shy away from or even before. imother parts for awhile, now.

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SONGSTRESS — Rita Hayes -vocalist, will be featured with Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra, Sept. 24, in the Manufacturers’ building at the Fair | Grounds.

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CIRCLE TAVERN

In Indianapolis It's The Circle ON THE CIRCLE

will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata," Charles

Wome operatic production |

which will open the Martens Concerts series this season at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the Murat,

Butler Music Heals

‘To Write Solo Series

William Pelz, chairman of the {theory department in Butler Uni\versity’s Jordan College of Music, — and David Hughes, director of student teaching, have been commissioned fo write a series of instrumental solos.

To be published by Sam Fox of New York, the solos for band and lorchestra instruments with piano accompaniment, called the National Soloist Series, will be used as text materials.

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Be a Legend

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Whiteman’s orchestra back dur Ing the golden jazz'era, said the

fo records.

TENOR--John Gallo, tenor, |

Busse Says Bix Shouldn't

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 22 ne The man who once played in Paul

{late Bix Beiderbecke wasn't the great figure he’s cracked up to be .

Band leader Henry Busse, here for a dance and dinner engage-|

ment, said it's not professional jealousy to debunk the Beiderbecke legend. Bix was considered the original “young man with a horn.” Mag-|

1 azine stories have been written . |about his style and tone two i. decades after his death.

“If they want a legend, there's

i Bunny Berigan,” Busse said. “He \had a phenomenal lip, wonderful tone.”

Busse described Bix as a or ‘perior musician, but not the! genius time has made hina.

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the influence of liquor. You ed play great that way.” Busse, however, said this of Bix: “Whatever he thought out he went into with his heart. He did have a sense of tone, and he knew how to hit a note where it stood out.” Busse, a popular trumpeter, played side-by-side with Bix in

living trumpet player. - Busse described Rafael Mendez (as “wonderful, out of this world.”! | Asked to compare them, Busse {said “You can't. Joe Venuti's a! \good fiddle player, and so is! {Kreisler.”

| Played with Greats |

Busse was first noted for his| | “Hot Lips,” written and recorded | {in 1922. It sold more than a mil-|

Four years later he had a tune {named “Madonna,” changed to {“When Day Is Done.” Busse wrote | “Wang Wang Blues” and “Fiesta.” He was with Whiteman for 10 years, in the days when Bing Crosby, Bix, the Teagardens, the iDorseys, Frankie Trombauer, |Ferde Grofe and George Gersh{win were associated with the | band. | Busse came to this country {in 1912 with his horn and $3. He {gets as much. pleasure with the ‘horn today as he did back in the days when he was just another trumpeter,

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DAIRY. SHOW FF THRILL The § cliss, will be a feature of the 20-act Oct. 9 through 13 at the International Dairy Exposition, The expesition itself opens at the Fair Grounds Oct. 6. '

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Ballet Players Plan Small-Town Tour

The Ballet Players, Marguerite| car and truck from their headde Anguera directing, will start alg uarters in the Indianapolis tour of smaller Indiana commu-|/Academy of Theater Arts, jointly the old Whiteman orchestra. He nities with a Greensburg program directed by Miss de Anguera and picked Charley Spivak as the best! {in the - Community Gymnasium Mrs. Fullwood and now located |Oct, 2at 8p m Formed about a nucleus of balilerinas from the annual Starlight {Musicals seasons, for which Miss {de Anguera has served as choreo-| grapher, the group will present {two original ballets: {Her Wonderful Doll” and “Voices! of" Spring.” two productions,

in the Colonnade Hotel.

Seeks Wage Boosts

BURFALO, N. Y., Sept. 22 (UP) ~The International Union of Electrical Workers (CIO), has re{solved to seek, “fair and equitawhich ble” wage Increases for its 350,000

“Lisa and!

combine hallet with drama, were, members.

{devised especiall ple by Miss de Hunt Fullwood Florence Kyte, miered last March lin the Murat.

for young peo-| Before winding up its third annguera, Anne nual convention, 600 delegatés ‘4nd composer approved .a resolution that locals They were pre-|seek wage increases first and then ask the Wage Stabilization Board

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