Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1951 — Page 18

Stage and Music— Reunion of J |

Flabby Folk

: By Henry Butler THIS WEEK'S Y aie events will be “The Autumn Garden,” opening tomorrow=-night at the Murat, and the _- Symphony's sixth pair of subscription concerts Saturday!

night and Sunday afternoon. Fabien Sevitzky and the Sym-! _. phony will be busy also Tuesday ‘ with their third telecast at 8 p. m. over WFBM-TV, again Co. and Arvin Television. Now "a bit more about “The Autumn Garden,” the season's

. first touring play to reach us.

With Fredric March and Florence Eldridge in the leading roles, it « has a distinguished east, certainly needs. The theme of Lillian Hellman'’s play, discussed here previously, and briefly, Southern Gulf resort town of a group. of characters ‘who had grown up together 30 or more years previously. For a variety of reasons too complex for men- . tion here, the reunion is a disastrous flop. In this latest play, the author of “Watch on the Rhine,” ‘The Little Foxes” and “Another Part of the Forest” writés penetrating- | ly of the self-deception and moral | flabbiness of Her middle-aged | characters,

ghe shows with great skill and clude John Newman,

insight the way people's lives are | interconnected. She makes it] clear, for example, how affection, granted or withheld at a critical moment, may change the entire * course of a life.

This demands virtuoso wing}

‘and virtuoso acting as well. doubtedly Mr. March and vd Eldridge will provide the latter.

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DR. SEVITZKY and the Sym- Vicki Hadden,

phony next week-end will have

«certmaster, and the Delibes Bal-' under sponsorship of the Gibson Music from “Sylvia. "

supporting | which a play of this kind]

is the reunion in a|

ler- Sevitzky 8 «Praeludium and Allegro,” Handel's Largo, with violin solo by Stanley Weiner, con-

JORDAN COLLEGE of Butler University will present a series of operatic scenes at 8 p.m, Jan, 11 and 12 in the Jordan auditorium, 106 E. North St. fe Julius Huehn, chairman of the Jordan voice department, is mu{sical director of the productions, which wiM include excerpts from “Carmen,” “The Barber of Seville” and ‘La Boheme.” Mrs. Maryjane Warner is director of the school’s opera workshop. 2 Singing in the “Carmen” scene from Act II will be Beth Hilton; as Carmen, and John Rooney, as| Don Jose, with Delores. Spalding, | Glenna McElwain, Nancy Ford,| (Jharlene Chadwick, IdaMae Mil-| ler, Robert Bishop, Phillip Coffin and Robert, McClure in the sup- | porting cast. For “The Barber of Seville”| three days (matinee Jan, 1) at

- TALENT ARRAY-——Florence

|{O’Nan, Joe Ecktman, Donald] | Woods, Bettye Brown, Miss Mil-| ler, Mr. McClure, Claudette Had-|

(circle) will head the cast of "The Autumn Garden,"

Eldridge (left) and Fredric March opening. its the Murat tomorrow. The comic

As in earlier plays, excerpt, cast members will in-| ballerina (right) is Elaine Fifield, as Pineapple Poll, in one of the James| offerings of the Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet, scheduled to give |_two separate programs, afternoon and evening, in the Murat next

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Mar. 9 on the Martens series. Julie Strong (lower center) of Bloomington, junior student at Indiana University and audition winner in a national intercollegiate acting competition, will be co-starred with Adolphe Menjou i in a presentation of "Stage Door" over the

NBC network "Playhouse on Broadway" program at 9 p. m. (Cen-| “‘rhe frustration of his job may|

tral standard time) next Tuesday.

nn M Chadwi Mr. Coffin,| en, Mis craawic, ur. coin, "Ml jonaire® Is for Hire

land Ronald Doak.

Singers .in the {selection will include Mr. Roone ey, | , O’'Nan, Mr, Bishop, Mr. By United Press (Woods, Ruth Ann Myers, £3 HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29—Fred-

Shirley Wallace and erick Valencourt looks like a mil|lionaire,

; . That fact pays him a handsome THE CIRCL E PLAY ERS, now wage and it makes him one of the

Spalding,

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|same woman his ame never gets!

mentioned in the society goss)

columns.

This, of course, is because he is!

a dress extra in the movies.

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LOEW’ “Quo Vadis,’ wih Robert Taylor and Deborah Ket at 12, 3, 6 and 9.

RCLE “Elopement,” with Willlam Lundigan and Anne Francis, at 2:05, 4 50, 7:35 and 10:15 “Chain of Circumstances” at 1, 3:40, 6.25 and 9:15 ESQUIRE ‘A Christmas Carol, Sim, at 1:35, 3:45, 10:15.

" with Alastair 5:55, 8:05 and

Train Crashes Truck But Driver Escapes

| NEWHAKA, Neb. (UP)—When {a pickup truck is struck in the middle by a train with enough |force to tip it over on its side and push it along the tracks, the truck driver usually doesn’t {live to tell about it,

Lift Operator

Doesn't Go Up |

means, "(going up or down. .

Carroll Glenn, violinist, and her|

“It must be my year-round tan|

INDIA “My Favorite Spy,

NA "” with Reo Hone and Hedy Lamarr, 3.25,

Pdi Charles Attebery walked away

If you buy anything you're in | business. Harold Hartley's “To- | day in “Business” lucid column | in The Times every day is ! written for everybody.

In Hollywood

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (UP)—-. There is an old and never-very-| funny ‘joke about” the life of ani elevator: operator—that- it's just | a series of ups and downs. In the case of one elevator op- | erator, Sam Krebs, the joke has lost whatever point it once had. | His job doesn’t have any ups and downs, . For the past 35 years, Krebs has been one of the most frequently seen elevator operators in motion pictures. “The only trouble is that I never really take my customers up or down,” he says. “It’s all a | horrible fake.” Once Krebs lets the actors into the elevator and closes the door, | trick photography takes over, | By lighting effects or other to create the illusion of |

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| KREBS HAD a thrill of antieci-| pation when he heard about the| filming of “Grand Hotel.” He] learned the set was to be realistic] enough té@ have. two stories and an honest to goodness elevator.) geature:’

He telephoned the casting office 1;15:3:8 to see if he could get the operator 2 WM CIRCLE “Sorry, Sam,” he was told.

“We're using a real operator this {time-—one who knows how to stop {flush with the floor.” | Krebs-celebrated his 60th birthday and 250th film the other day | by taking Marjorie Main and Per- | cy Kilbride “up” in the elevator of the swank Louis Quatorze Hotel] at Universal-International for “Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Paris. »]

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laccount for Krebs’ always-ag-| 'grieved look, which has earned ‘him the nickname of “Sad Sam” | among Hollywood oldtimers.| Some directors cast him especial-| ly for the comic effect they get) by shooting a close-up of the elevator operator.

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More Remodeling

NEW YORK—The clay floor] land wall tile industry will stress home remodeling and moderniza-

husband, Eugene List, pianist, as/Industriously rehearsing for their champion Hollywood party-goers and white, wavy hair,” Valencourt | joint solotsts. This will be the fifth production, will put oniof all time. opined after a pleasant afternoon | first local appearance of the two “Come Back, Little Sheba” Jan.| During the past six years he has of dancing with Jan Sterling for a| as_a team, though Miss Glenn 10 through 13 in the Antlers Hotel heen a prominent guest at more scene in “Hear No Evil” at Uniplayed with the orchestra in 1944, |bapiraom. {than 500 big parties, a claim that versal-International studios. and Mr. List was on one of Dr. Willlam Inge's play about an even such social lions as Peter Gets $22.23 a Day Sevitzky's “Stars Under Stars” concerts in the 1947 ButJer Bowl series, The two will be heard Saturday night and Sunday afternoon in the Haydn's Concerto for Violin, . Piano and Orchestra, an Indian- ' apolis premiére, and in Paul Nor-\" doff's Double Concerto for Piano|

“I'm strictly the party type. The|

won for Shirley Booth a Best Bautzer and George Jessel would g 3 Quy studios pay me $22.23 per day to,

|Acting Award on Broadway. ‘have a hard time matching. In the Circle Players’ cast will] Happily married though he is, . be Ruth Trees as Lola and Joe|Valencourt never has taken his| _ 1Vve worn out 14 tuxedos since Lawrie as Doc. Nancy Grosdidier wife to any of these shindigs. In-/1944 but I've never been to Ciro's (will play Marie and Walt Wood- stead He sips cocktails, dances and °F the Mocgmbo or any of those son, Turk, chats with such glamorous| famous Sonja Henie parties. Walter H. Hogan is directing, |“dates” as Joan Crawford, Linda ‘Im Hollywood's number one with Mary Karly as technical Darnell, Rita Rayworth and Ann Stuffed shirt and I hope I stay

and Violin, a world premiere. fw » that way The Nordoff Concerto was director. cs a aaa | Blyth, Ge “It beats one of the jobs I used . written especially for Miss Glenn, Never/Gets Dxunk lto have.

, and Mr. List. ‘Lang to Appear i in Court He admits having downed as| Also programmed for the week- | HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (U P)— many as 75 drinks at a single end are Dr, Sevitzky's transerip-| Handsome actors’ agent Jennings party but says it never has made! tion of the Bach D minor organ Lang will “probably be able” to| him tipsy. He never leaves until More Money Now Toccata and Fugue and Stravin-|appear in court when Walter(the last dog is hung, but he always! In 1850 the amount of money 2 sky's “Firebird” Suite. |Wanger, who shot him in the gets to bed by midnight. iin circulation in America was $12 For his New Year's Day tele- groin, pleads Jan. 7, Deputy] He owns more formal clothes a person, half of which was in cast over WFBM-TV, Dr. Se- District Attorney Adolph Alex-|than street clothes, and although! coin; today there are $10 in coins ! vitaky has programmed the Kreis- ander said t today. he never is seen twice with the and $170 in paper money.

“I hauled coal in Chicago.”

IT's THE CALL TO ADVENTURE!

. emdctually filmed in - Florida Everglades where cameras never penetrated

before—in color by

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"man-devouring wilderness to free a captive beauty from its perils, turning the tide of the savage Seminole Indian War!

Captain Quincy Wyatt and = Swamp-Fighters! The heroic rescue-band who fought through bottomless quicksands-— and

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6:40 and 9:55. “Highly Dangerous,” with Dane Clark, at 2, 5:15 and 8:30. KEITH’

2 S Bayonets,”” with Gene and Richard Basehart, at ‘05, 6:55 and 9:45. ‘Northwest Territory,” at 3, 5:50, and 8:40,

LYRIC “The Tanks Are C aming, Steve Cochran, at 1:4

with 0, 4:25, 7.10 “Ft. Dodge Stampede,” at 12:40, 3:25, 6:10 and 8:55

from such a wreck when his [truck was struck south of here lana dragged about 60 feet. Both {the train and tHe truck were

traveling at about 10 miles per hour. | Mr. Attebery said he “just hung |

on in the cab and rode it out.”

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