Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1951 — Page 25

r, OCT. 7, 1951

4 i Lim R — The Littlejohns, 2, "fantasy in jewels," e of the acts in the val Dairy Exposition ne Show at the Fair The Hippodrome | run the last five the exposition, Oct. 9 3...

role of the party wallhel Boke, in “Sevenmedy based on Booth 's famous novel, is inaugurating the dicated Booth Tark-

sic Theater.

ble Green » Pulpit Noble Green will asduties as new pastor t Methodist Church in { Sunday.

. Mr. Green has been pastor of. the Westfield is a member of the

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SUNDAY, OCT. 7, 1951

Stage and Music— ‘La Traviata’ Coming Oct. 17

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By Henry Butler THE CHARLES WAGNER production of “La Travita" will be a brilliant season-opener for the Murat Oct. 17. Publicity releases for this Martens Concerts item now ndicate the cast will be another of the youthful and petnable groups Mr. Wagner an-|

ually contrives to assemble for| is streamlined operas. Theodora Brandon, young so-| rano from Pennsylvania who! made her debut with the Philaelphia Orchestra two years ago, ill sing the tragic role of Vioetta, Miss Brandon began her opratic career in the title role of Madam Butterfly” in the 1950 ummer season in Central City, olo., that remarkable place ransformed by good drama and ppera from ghost town to a kind pf Rocky Mountain Salzburg. After her coming tour with Mr. Wagner's company, Miss Brandon, ain will appear with the Phila- ph toy n “ly peiphia Orchestra, both in the Pay Dots ell oh cademy of Music and, New| 2:30. 5:30 and 8:48 Nork's Carnegie Hall, as soprano oloist In Honegger's “King Daid.”

Amusement Clock

CIRCLE

“David _ and Bathsheba,” with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward, at 1:45, 4:20, 6:55 and 9:30

ESQUIRE “Oliver Twist” at 1:45, 3:45, 7.50 and 9:55. INDIANA

“People Will Talk,” " with Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, at 2.45, 6:20 and 10 : “Pardon My French, with Paul Henreld and Merle Oberon, at 1:15, 4.55 and 8.30.

KEITHS “Secret of Conviel

Glenn Ford and Gens 45. 4, 7 and 10

Times

5.50,

Lake,” with Tierney, at

LOEW'S

Carnival,” Red Skelton Miller, at 2:15,

with Esther Howard Keel 4:50, 7:20

“Texas Williams and Ann and 10:05 “The Rix

Morris, at 1,

» ” ” A FEW WORDS of praise anually are due Mr. Wagner for aking opera self-supporting. He roves each year it can be done Athout sacrificing quality. True and_8.50 h, his singers probably don’t J, Fler 23.” with Hugh Beaumont, at BE rer but they, 13:15 3:05, 3:38 ang 5:0 flo gain valuable experience they ouldn’'t get elsewhere. like Fabien Sevitzky training young musicians in the Indian-

Gusher,” with Wayne

3:35, 8:10 and 8:50, LYRIC

with kdmond O'Brien at 1:20, 4:10,

“Warpath” and Forrest Tueker,

was an

extravagantly costly process. ~ » ~

a polls SYmpPRORY;-—- Mr. - Wagner MR. WAGNER enjoys the great Three leading Since PIOVETrs Will receive the nation’s’

a kind of where young

as it were, ppera school-—-a company mbitious and talented

advantage of specializing. he takes only one show on tour, he: can cut down overhead. The

onducts,

ingers can get a.start. The question arises each year: f Mr. Wagner can produce pperas that rival the Metropolitan n many ways, and do so on a business basis, why can’t the Met make ends meet? » On my desk right now is a pubicity story about the forthcomng book, ‘Opera for the People.” by Dr. Herbert Graf, the Met's tage director, which will be pubished Oct. 18 by the University pf Minhesota Press, Mr. Graf ives financial figures for the det's 97 per cent sold-out season f 1947-48. Total income was 3.024 688.78, Expenses were $3-

R52 45.86.

Part of the Met's trouble has en due to hopelessly inefficient

Met goes on tour with a repertoire, and furthermore has to rotate operas and casts so as to avoid strain on stars’ voices.

But even a casual onlooker is forced to conclude the Met “travels too heavy.” Surely new scenic and lighting techniques could reduce the weight and complexity of the Met's current staging. A final word on “La Traviata.” It belongs among the more “sensible” Italian .operas, despite the absurdity of the consumptive and dying heroine singing a vigorous soprano. With a libretto based on Dumas’ one-time sensational play, “La Dame aux camellias’

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"TURN ON CHARM!" —Six chorines of the large cast in "Ankles Aweigh" are (left to right), Ginger Pinkus, Carol Gold, Roye Leve, Beverly Farber, Jackueline Stolkin and Joan Ossip. Now in daily rehearsals, the group of more than 125 performers will stage a two-hour song, dance and specialtynumber show. Proceeds will benefit the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregations building fund.

Will Honor Groups Here for Hiring The Handicapped

Three leading Indianapolis em-

highest award for hiring handicapped workers tomorrow. Awards of Merit from President Truman's National Employ the Physically Handicapped Committee will be presented United States Naval

to, the| Ordfance| *

plant, P. R. Mallory Co., Inc, and|

Indianapolis Goodwill

Industries, ||

Vice Adm. Ross T. McIntire heads *

the President's committee. The NEPH “kickoff” luncheon will be in Hotel Antlers tomorrow. Few of the coveted awards have been made since NEPH Week was first conceived and put into effect. All of the local firms receiving the honor have been cited by other civic organizations for their employment practices in using handicapped workers. The luncheon tomorrow will be

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; Director of ‘Folies

Denies Show Too Naughty to Export

By United Press PARIS, Oct. 6 -Paul Derval, director of the “Folies Bergere,” said today ‘that no one has anything to fear from: an version of his famed bosom show, Told that indignant: protests were already reaching Australian officials over the scheduled (opening in Sydney next year of a road version of the “Folies” Derval moaned: “People will protest even before they know what they are protesting. “There is nothing ® my show that can't be imported anywhere with a few slight changes, of course,” he added. Derval emphasized he was not signalling out Australians for {special criticism, He said he ran into the same kind of opposition almost everywhere, “The truth is,” he admitted, “our reputation has gotten out of hand. When people think of the ‘Follies,’ they think only of nudes. Which of course is silly.”

imported leg-and-

Derval, whose 20 vears as “Follies” director has left him a calm, greving late 50, said unfortunately he ran into the same thing personally. picture my office with beautiful blondes, champagne running out of our ears,” he said. “Now I ask you, doesn’t this look like any other office?” It did.

Dervel

“People jammed

said he would gladly

Australia or anywhere else the troupe goes. “Naturally we have to respect the laws and morals of the country receiving the show, just as a motorist in a foreign country conforms to traffic regulations different from his own,” he said. ‘ Dervel admitted that mere of the feminine body can be displayed in Paris than almost anywhere else and added: “That's fine for us. But if nudes have to stand still, like those in our show now playing in London, then they stand still. “Maybe nobody will believe fit, but we are not engaged in pornography or its export abroad.”

anything,”

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RIDE ‘EM COWBOY—Among the many bronc busters-to ap-

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shown here trying to stick in the saddle at a recent Fair.

position Rodeo is Marlin Morgan,

Urges Rescinding Of Security Order

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6- President Truman's ‘security order to non-defense agencies iz “more suppressive than similar orders issued during World War II" Rep. (Cecil Harden, Covington Republican, declared today. Mrs. Harden, who is also the Republican National Committee-

Gigi Assists Sis To Be an Actress HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6 It is rare enough for a nine-year-old to blossom into ‘a full-fledged film star. It becomes even more rare when the nine-vear-old can give her seven-year-old sister coaching calculated to further the sister's screen career, as well. But rare as it is, this is the’ case with Gigi Perreau, who showed herself during filming of Universal-International’'s “Weekend With Father’ to be more concerned over the acting future of her sister, Janine, than about her own career. Gigi and Janine play the daughters of Van Heflin, who co-stars| in the film with Patricia Neal They conspire with a score of other youngsters to put Patricia's

woman from Indiana, urged that the President rescind the order and stick to the American tradition .of freedom of. the press. “Under cloak of this order, Mrs, Harden said, “the Office of Price Stabilization immediately issued an agency directive ordering OPS officials to withhold from the

~ press any information that might

make OPS look ‘bad with the spoble.

“The Truman directive, in shorts, Pete

plainly told federal officials to keep from the public any information which might prove embarrassing to the government or, more likely, to Mr. Truman.

Jane Wyman Gets

Intellectual Bath

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8—The gossip columnists are missing out om one of the juiciest items of the year. The new man in Jane Wyman's life is (Shh-h-h-!) Charles Laughton.

She admires his brain, The Academy Award winnin actress and the Academy Awar winning actor never had met un~

Druggist Wins Prize " James W. Kelgo of ths Hodk Drugs chain, won third prize in the national display contest sponsored by a deodorant manufacturer. His original display methods earned him a $100 savings bond.

(“Camille”), Verdi wrote a splen- cosponsored by the Indianapojis did score. It's not up to “Othello” junior Chamber of Commerce and or “Falstaff,” of course, but it's {hs Indiana Manufacturers’ As-

affection for Van to the acid test.til they were cast in “The Blue Throughout the production, Gigi Veil,” made by Jerry Wald and coached her younger sister, helped Norman Krasna at RKO Radle, ‘her with hher lines and business! “But when I did meet him, ¥ and counseled her, against over- was an experience,” Miss Wyman acting and underacting. She even, gushed. “He has a phenomenal of all things, gave her a few. of brain. He is the most learned . the secrets of scene-stealing. {man I have ever met.”

statisticians of the puarters. Irving Kolodin, in the ana Conference, and atypday Review of Literature, fe secretary of the ame time® ago pointed out that OF strict. erely moving scenery from the Still fine music with the added gneiation. a fet'= warehouse in a nearby merit of being instantly appealullding to the opera house itself ing to most listeners,

"WEIGH ANKLE!"—Fred Evans of New York, director of the benefit variety show to be produced at the Murat Oct. 22-24, instructs four members of the chorus line (left to right): Mesdames Irwin Lorey, Robert Lutz, Coby Levin and Caroll Kahn, .

All three firms were nominated for the awards by an organized group of handicapped workers. {The Indiana State Department of the American Federation of the si y Handica $ $ Physically I andicapped suggested each of the to the President's commit! s that, the outstand

firms was eligible for ing recognition Harold Russell, handless World War II veteran and star of the motion picture, “The Best Years eration of the Physically Handiof Qur Lives,” will be the prin- capped, of which he is national cipal speaker at the luncheon to- president, and by members of morrow. AMVETS.

A BIG EVENT FOR INDIANAPOLIS!

Mr. Russell will be met at Weir Cook Municipal Airport today by members of the American Fed-

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