Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1952 — Page 38
Stage and
Music—
‘More Support For Symphony
By Henry Butler
FIRST IMPORTANT matter today is the Symphony's announcement of its 1952-53 season.
As these pages reported |
ast Thursday, the new season
~ will add another pair of subscription concerts for a tota
“af 12, That round dozen had been standard practice for some seax sons prior to 1948-49, wien the orchestra took a gamble on a 14pair season. It gold well enough,
hut hampered the lucrative tours}.
ing and. hence forced a downward revision to 11 pairs. 3 'Y Indications are the Symphony has worked its way slowly and painfully out of a longish period of financial jitters,
lowing in debt either. There's more hope ahead than there has heen for several seasons. Conductor Fablen Sevitzky and manager Alan Meissner have been iided in their campaign this seaon by less competition from touring foreign orchestras. As one of the most strenuously traveling orchestras in the United States, the Indianapolis Symphony depends a lot on the guaranteed revenue of touring dates: LocaHy, popular support seems to be growing. Such fine ideas as the series of sponsored TV programs have greatly improved the orchestra's public relations.
~ ~ ” “ . DR. SEVITZKY has selected a. fine package of soloists for next season,.- We'll list concert dates and soloists’ names, adding individual comment afterwards: Oct. 25-26, Orchestral. Nov. 8-9, Menahem Pressler, pianist, Nov. 22-23, Igor Gorin, baritone. Dec. 7-8, Ania Dorfmann, pianist. Dec. 20-21, Stanley Weiner, violinist. Jan. 4-5, 1953, Rudolf Firkusny, pianist. Jan. 17-18, Zino Francescattl, violinist. Jan. 31-Feb. 1, Roberta Peters, soprano. Feb. 8-9, Gulomar Novaes, planist, Feb. 21-22, Guest attraction, to * he. announced, : Mar. 14-15, Artur Rubinstein, pianist.
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and 10 INDIANA “Bend in the River.” with Jim Stewart and Arthur Kennedy, at | 3.10, 6:30 and 9:50 “Japanese War Bride,” at 170 4.5% and 8.10 :
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ters, at 2 80, 6:15 and 9.45 “The Highwayman,” at 1.20. 4 54 and 8.20. LYRIC . “For Men Only," with Paul, He reid and Margaret Field, at 12 290, 338 646 and 0:54 2 “Stronghold,” at 206, 514 and 22
Mar. 21-22, Orchestral. As Dr, Sevitzky’s announcement points out, the only newcomer is Miss Peters, whose coloratura singing -has been a Metropolitan Opera sensation for the past couple of seasons. Young Mr. Pressler was here in 1919 with the Symphony. Mr. Gorin last sang in the Murat with Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra in [1941.
~ ” » AS IN FORMER seasons, pianists outnumber violinists and singers, for the good managerial reason that they usually draw better.
1950. Mr. Weiner, Dr. Sevitzky's| extremely able concertmaster, who incidentally will be heard in|
ater, accompanied by the Sym-! iphony’'s pianist, Edwin Biltcliffe,' needs no introduction.
championship. Indeed, ing: - Mme. Novaes, one of the most imaginative pianists of this era,
1950. And Mr. Rubinstein, often described as the last of the titans, will be back for the first time in five years:
- ” ~ A BUSY WEEK is ahead. This afternoon's Symphony concert, with Oscar Levant playing the Gershwin Plano Concerto, will be repeated at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow. Tuesday brings. Mr. Weiner's violin recital mentioned above, And on Wednesday,
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BALLET IMPRESSIONS—Times artist Gene Feingold here assembles some groups and individuals from the Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet, coming to the Murat next Sunday for matinee and evening performances on the Martens series. Starting upper left,
David Blair and Elaine Fifield are
Marsh, chairman of the Jordan,
drawn in a "pas de deux" from
The same evening, by regretta-
Miss Dorfmann will be making|plano department.of Butler Uni- ble but apparently unavoidable University Auditorium Nov. 28, her first visit to the Murat since ergity, will be heard in recital] coinciderice,
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SUNDAY, MAR. 2, 1050 Direct From Broadway—- Y : 2 Talking of Actors, °° Here's Mr. Harrison
By WARD MOREHOUSE .
NEW YORK, Mar. 1—Talking of the theater and the ““Ipeople of it." I'm now convinced that Rex Harrison is one of the finest actors London has sent this way since George |Arliss came over, liked it, and stayed. Mr. Harrison has
|distinguished himself locally in three plays in a row—‘"Anne of you'll be missing some grand the Thousand Days,” “Bell, Book clowning from Bert. Lahr, some and Candle” and 4 ’ fetching songs from Dolores Gray the current “Ve- and inspired mimicry from Elliott nus Observed.” Reid . . . Put down an important The biggest date on the first-night calendar: ° surprise I've had |Thursday, Mar. 13, will bring in the season’s |“Flight Into Egypt,” ‘by George playgoing to Tabori, staged by Elia Kazan, into date was the the-Music Box . .. Another date: revelation of Monday, Apr. 7, on which “South " «*iRobert Ross IPacific” will celebrate its third
acting finesse in (birthday. the role of the { Top performances in some of anthropologist in the recent plays? ...Add those of “Point of No Re- {John Williams in “Venus. Obturn.” . .. Con. ard Morehouse ory eq » Howard St. John in
sider th “Jane,” Philip Huston in “The Case of Leora Dana, . . It Barbara Bel Ged-
HOLLY doll would b percolate ov
TV version o replaces Penn
. =the mob of
Hughes’ big pr Vegas Story” i told me: * ‘Blondie’ h little rut for 1 handicap for wouldn’t hire role hecause a appeared on yell, “There’s 1] time I forgot Until there's version of Blo Patricia, Peni
. (of the suburban wife of the young
was enchanting in “The Madwoman of Chaillot” and com-| pletely miscast in “The Happy | Time.” In the Osborn-Marquand | play at the Alvin she ‘is superb, making a genuine, human person |
banker. There's
a, small-part Will uluva, currently in Shrike,” who always turns in a| good performance.. Helen Wood | is .a whirling delight in “Pall Joey,” and Elaine Stritch, of the same show, stops it. every night | with her singing of “Zip.”
ummer at the ‘Y’ Seems that such estimable fellows as Henry Fonda and Elia
actor,! “The|
the "Nutcracker. Center, Svetlana Beriosova and Stanley Holden, with three dolls around them, dance in "Coppelia." Upper right, two characters cavort in the ensemble of "Pineapple Pol Lower right, Sol Hurok, impresario, surveys critically his dazzling ballet
importation from London.
Jordan Groups To Give Concert
“Marriage of Figaro” at Indiana
And next Sunday brings the
at Caleb Mills Hall at 8:15 p. m.|Follies starts its two-night run Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet to
Mr, Marsh, whose program is
Brahms-Paganini Variations, two!
|
| “Poemes’” by Scriabin, the Proko-| Mr. Firkusny, Czech virtuoso, fieff Toccata Op. 11, a Busoni | had big success with the Sym- Sonatina, three Chopin Mazurkas phony in the season now almost and Liszt's 12th Rhapsody. ate ry Mr. Francescatti is the French|gpen contender for the Heifetz fiddle|«ggpe, some lis-, teners find him a lot more excit-| —
Thursday
the Antlers Hotel ballroom.
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: By BEN COOK _ | United Presp Staff Correspondent |
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 1 —. The|
else, for that matter—starts with boy meeting girl. There is just one rule to govern.the meeting. They have to meet “cute.” “Cute” is not how-boy and girl meet off the screen. Only the ex-! ceptions to the eight tried and!
measure up to movie standards. |
formation was disclosed in a na-
the Maennerchor will their guest artist at the Athenthe Circle Players geum James Pease, Hoosier bass-
The above bit of incidental in-flonal were:
in the Murat. Like last fall's
chal aL him, Psiay ij epected, lo than 8 SAP anes was hs beens show e Boo arkington Civic The- crowd, is beng produced by the Jer Fantasia, the first book of the] sp y 1 ome
Cargill Co. of New York, who specialize in directing amateur shows, Saturday, Clarence Elbert and
their’ murder melodrama, baritone last heard in these parts “Pineapple Poll,” based on a Bab) - " by Patrick Hamilton, in in the P i Pp ’ Weber and Ravel,
New York City Opera Com-
‘pany’s -production . of Mozart's music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
vie Boy Must Meet Girl °*
150 offices of the Seaboard Fi-
nance Co.
- Only 23 per cent of the girls| {basic plot for a motion picture in met their husbands “cute,” or un-| Hollywood—or almost anywhere|der circumstances not governed by the orthodox eight, and they furnished no rule of thumb for a
girl with her sights on a plain|g Through a relative. 5. At a
the Murat for two separate shows on the Martens series. | The afternoon program will present a concert at 3:30 p. m,, consist of a complete performance Mar. 23 at Meridian Heights of “Coppelia,” with music by Leo Presbyterian Church, Delibes. land Central Ave. | The evening program will in-| With Richard Whittington diclude two scenes from Tchaikov- recting the choir and Beldon
{ |
|Ballroom,” by Geoffrey Toye and/gram will include the “Theresa”
Kazan and Oscar Hammerstein {II, according to . Lewis Funke, have done their share of living iin the YMCA. I'm one who shares {their appreciation of the Y's service and comforts. There was a {good Y in Savannah, another in Atlanta, and certainly another in Roanoke, Va., which offered me its hospitality during a hot summer after I'd been stranded in southwestern Virginia. That can
The Jordan Chorale and Or- happen when you quit school and chestra of Butler University will try to go in for some touring as talked
lan actor. “The difference between the
47th St. London theater and the New g
|York theater,” observed a saga-
cious New Yorker the other day,
“is that in London people go té
have as sky's “Nutcracker,” “The Haunted Leonard the orchestra, the pro-'see the plays; in New York peo-
iple go see the hits.” , , . It would
now of that play. I thought she SPrike.” .
{des plays “Saint Joan” at Arden,
{Del., this’ summer I intende to see
it, unless I'm in La Paz or Saskatoon, and I'll go most anywhere to see Clarence Derwent play Shylock . . . That Derwent Committee, which passes on the none
(featured performances gvery sea.
son and gives away $1000 of Mr, Derwent’s money, is still in existe ence, I suppose. Numerous sup-porting-cast performances already come to mind. Unless ‘Mr. Derwent has changed his plans, the meeting will be held as usnal in Gilbert Miller's offices, and in May. The committee members, when I last looked, were Mr, Derwent, Mr. Miller, Brooks Atkinson, Margaret Webster, Herman Shumlin and myself. t's a rough season that offers {80 fine an artist as Judith Ander'son only a few week's work , . , |First time I ever set eyes upon
Miss Anderson she was playing in
| “Cobra.” Good cast in that one, |A particularly good performance {from a tall actor who has had a {lot of stock-company experience, |His name was, and is, Louis {Calhern. | He told me he was going te tour in “King Lear” when I last with him ... Wonder what ever became of that notion? And of the ANTA Album. If they're {going to have one for '52 they'd {better begin moving.
Symphony to Appear
song-and-danc she made her | cently at the " in Las Vegas. caping “Blond Penny “Blond
o SHELLEY"! to battle it out for a big sala sign her new gets it, ,.. PF mates are ce
RECITALIS chairman of # piano departr versity, will b
| one of the company's novelties, 'mass of Haydn and works by be difficult to convince fvestors/ At 1? Thursday
in “I Am a Camera” and “Pal| Times State Servis Joey” that show business igwt/ BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 1—The a sane and merry indust Indianapolis Symphony, Fabien “Camera” will start paying off Sevitzky directing, will make fits
lits backers any day now; “Pal 16th appearance on Indiana Uni- 3
‘Ballad by W. S. Gilbert, with
— Sevitzky te Play
at 8:15 p. m. in Caleb Mi will go-to the morial Aware
For Columbia Club
| A concert of chamber muysic by dated his brother, who introduced members of the Indianapolis {us after a year.” ’ (Symphony, Fabien Sevitzky diIf a girl wants a husband, here recting, will be presented for Coare the eight ways 77 per cent of lumbia Club members at 8:15 the girls said they met theirs: |P- Mm. next Sunday in the club
1. Through a friend. 2. At 2 Progr
dance. 3. Childhood sweetheart. Programmed are Boccherini's trio for Two Violins and Cello,
Cute’
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gold band for the third finger of \cjup meeting. 6. In church. 7. At/Mozart's Concerto for Flute, Harp
her left hand.
Only three ‘reported of their| There is one ftem on which the
spouses: “He was my doctor.”
: “At a bus stop..He asked me if [true (resulting in marriage, that had a schedule,” was the an18) boy-meets-girl situations gwer from only one girl.
Others among the very occas-
“He sold me a car. On an
tion-wide survey conducted|island. Over the phone while talk-| among married girls employed in ing with ‘another boy friend. I|
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