Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1952 — Page 24

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% By Henry Butler + - THE WEEK'S main theater attraction starts tomorrow when Ethel Waters and her touring company open “The Member of the Wedding” at the Murat. That's not to overlook this afternoon's re petition on

the same stage of last night's me - concert “Lohengrin” by Fabien Kurt Baum will sing Don Jose. Bevitzky, soloists, the Symphonic, The singer for Escamillo had not ~ Choir and .the Symphony. been chosen

A® probably the biggest enter- “While were mentioning ,Burp Dr. Sevitzky has ever at- due’s Hall of Music, here's a s 3 : reminder of the concert by Eu-

te ed in the Murat should at tract today a good many listen ers Who may have missed it last night. The score, best and most profound of Wagner's early pe riod, has great impact. Back .to Miss Waters and the Carson McCullers Drama-Critics!

gene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra on Friday evening, Feb, 29 y Opinions .may differ as to the merits of Mr, Ormandy’'s conducting, but there's no question of the merits of the orchestra, It's one

of the world's greatest, as even Do 8 ard-winning Le naldson award-winning rooters for Boston, New York or

y the cast will include Betty NBC & . : NHoONland in the role of the!’ BC Symphony will agree, motherless an@ sadly perplexed =e hl = adolescent girl, and ‘young Rob MUSICAL reminders start with ert Mariotti as the 6-year-old mention of the concert Tuesday * iaginative youngster who con-| evening by Ernst Hoffman and tributes whimsical comedy to the the Indianapolis © Philharmonic

proceedings. Orchestra, with Marie Zorn, well $ non known Indianapolis pianist and FROM BI xineton yin e member of the Indiana University sloonmiingtor C4 S

music faculty, as soloist in Moword the Metropolitan Opera has. zart's E flat Concerto, K. 482 announced the casts for “Alda Mr. Hoffman and the orchestra May 19, and “Cosi fan tutte” of eager and increasingly skillful May 20, in Indiana University | “98° RENEY EM amateurs will] be heard in a Conauditorium. certo for Small Orchestra, by Singing leads in “Aida” will be Bernhard Heiden, composer and Delia Rigel, as the tragic heroine gqgocjate professor in 1U School herself; Blanche Thebom, Robert or Music, They will finish their Merrill, Jerome Hines and Nor-'propram with Borodin’s Sym man Scott. Others in the cast will phony No, 2 in B minor. be Mario Del Manaco, Thomas = giapnley Welner, concertmaster Hayward and Anne Bollinger, of the Indianapolis Symphony, Janet Collins, ballerina in the yn be heard in recital at 8:30 New York performance of Verdi's , pn, myesday, Mar. 4, in the opera, wilt ‘be with the Met for its g,,tn Tarkington Civic Theater. IU visit. Ozan Marsh, chairman of the Miss Thebom is singing Ortrud ping department of Butler Uniin Dr. Sevitzky's above-mentioned yarsity's Jordan College of Mu“Lohengrin,” to be heard again gi. wiiI'give a recital at 8:30 p. m. at 3 p.m. today. Wednesday, Mar. 5, in Caleb Mills’ For “Cosi. fan futte,” the re- yg) _styled Bozart opera, stage- 8 .m directed by Alfred Lunt and sung FINAL PRODUCTION of the in English, Eleanor Stebertjively (ircle Players’ current Patrice Munsel, Mildred Miller season will be Patrick Hamil=: and Richard Tucker will be prin- ton's “Rope,” to be staged in

cipals. The cast also will include their customery arena style Mar. “ Frank Guarrea and Lorenzo § through 9 in the Hotel Antlers Alvary. ballroom. With Howard 1.. Grigs-

“8 8 ’ by as director, the cast will inTHE MET'S PURD UE visit clude: H. Webb Gunderson, John May 21, as previously announced, T. Osborn James Powrie, Robwill present “Carmen” in another bie Robinson, Sher Lee Cheek, H. of manager Rudolf Bing's revi-‘Ross Copeland, Margaret Kast-

gions of the company's old ridge and Jerry Vance. chestnuts, leslie F. Ayres is technical diThe title role will be sung by rector, Rise Stevens, As of this writing, ! “0 un 8

further casting details had not! FINAL REMINDER: It's never been settled, though probably too early to start buying tickets,

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for’ The Times Ice-O-Rama Mar. gUndoubtedly Manual Plans the-Mmost spectacular benefit eyer Pl put on locally by volunteers, this Mystery ay annual event now has few na- ‘The senior class of Manual High School will present a threeact mystery, “A Murder Has Been 3 Arranged,” in the Manual audiMeanwhile, mail orders are being torium Mar. 21. Charles Monroe, taken here gt the office. Ad- production manager, and Ice-O-Rama, Hilgemeier, student director, will Indianap- assist Douglas Conrod, teacher, in directing and producing the play Cast - members will be Ted Raymond Strege, Sandra Side mezzanine, Shc, Ketchum, - Bessie Miller, Betty Kast end mezzanine, 80c. Settles, Versa Cecil, Jim Weber, - we Pat Birl and John» Livingston,

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~ Of Fine ‘Lohengrin’

The villainess was the hereine sings with great good taste, but in last night's “Lohengrin.” her voice, as of last night, seemed That is to say Blanché Thehom, almost immature at. times. singing Ortrud in Fabien Sevitz- Manfred Hecht, as Telramund, ky's concert version of Wagner's does a splendid job of singing, as [ Robert Speaker, as King ought to “be Henry, Bernard Izzo, as the ‘grand King's Herald, deserves special mention for extremely compes-

lot of show to steal. Dr Sevitzky tent, thoughful work in a role § : . hia .: ‘tant than it may seem Sv the Sym- more impor ) . the Sympnony J Ee od Best of all (bettex even than Da tr ets “outdid them- the Symphonic Choir, which does ay umpets, amazingly well in this tough asselves.

. : signment) is the orchestra. Not Word gets around in this genu- egen in the Met would vou hear _opera-minded town. It ¥ iy henorin® like this. With wasn't publicity that: sold’ he great flair for the impossi« house out tail but 30 seats) last \ \, "5. Sevitzky tackles a come night and has it packed for this pletely crazy project like “Lohenafternoon, It was hunger for the o.,»" and makes it click better kind of thing Dr. SevitzKy does iy. jt would in the old barn-at supremely well. 39th St. and Broadway. Gets. the Credit Two comments -on the printed “With all ‘the limitations of the prooram: One, the four extra Murat stage, this. “Lohengrin,” truympeters, one of whom was sung in English (awkward Eng- winner of a Park Department lish, to be sure, but still under- music contest I helped judge

She. probably benign and

standable) comes alive. And'back in aught 47, are not named. most of the credit for the dra- Two: The fiat “Intermission matic impact goes to Miss The- shall he 7 minutes after each bom. ’ act” sent me, The “shall,” almost

She has a voice in a million,- echoing the Book of Genesis, was plus looks and: fine intelligence. something, as -a deceased aunt of From the very start of her sing- mine used to say, to tout the ene ing Ortrud’'s malicious wiles, her semble, H. B. voice carried right through cho —

rus and orchestra, even when she di was singing mezzo-forte. Ra 10 Stars In appropriate wine-colored velvet, Nigh: necked, long-sleeved (Not. Human) with a beaded, medieval-looking head-dress, she managed to make To Be Hunted herself look mean, ugly and menacing. For so good-looking Col a -gal, that's no small achievement. And the . quality of voice and superb musicianship won her some European-style bravos. Had Tough Role

By Science Service UMBUS, O., Feb. 23—A search for radio stars, those pee culiar stars whose cosmic hisses can be picked up on earth, will soon begin here at Ohio State University. A radio telescope 160

| A close second was Ramon feet long and.12 feet across is Vinay, singing Lohengrin with being constructed to record their !more effort ‘than drama. That noisy signals. *

role is a killer, and probably few The telescope, to be one of the tenors in this era, since Melchior largest in existence and the only in his prime. have been able to one of its particular design, is do it altogether well. Mr. Vinay being built under the direction of has fine tone and phrasing. As Prof. John D. Kraus. The instrue of last night, he hadn't quité ern- ment will use spirally wound ane tered into the spirit of the show. tennas which Prof. Kraus ine Florence Manning. in white by contrast with Miss ultra high frequency of 250 megaThehom’s villainess outfit, was cycles, visually a better Elsa than vo- The new radio telescope will be cally. She knows the role andput into operation in March.

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