Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1952 — Page 24

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Stage and Music— Condition - Critical _

By Henry Butler

(With apologies to Ogden Nash)

“*People sometimes say, “How much fun it must be to write | fee criticism!” » =A painful remark which, nevertheless, the exigencies of courtesy oblige me to greet as if it were a sidesplitting witticism., ’

- Slor comments of the sort, which show insensitivity,

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y pirsons seem to have a knack that began with their Se. nativity, EThey should try being on the rece “ postcards anonymous, | Which conjure up visions of the devils in a painting by| Bosch, Hieronymus.

p . . H EVEN signed letters, complaining of “d -and obviously written in high dudgeon, i On occasion have made me out to be an anti-social, , irredeemable, dyspeptic and scrofulous old curmudgeon. & Some nice letters, which I treasure, bring a glow evanescent, & Scarcely enough to keep a critic's zeal invariably and day in, a day out, incandescent. i That's the nature of the beast. if you too were given free tickets to anything and, everything within 100 miles radius, outside of basketball | finals, and told to go have yourself a high old time only on condition that you sit down afterwards and write, a story, would you regard this as an endless feast? esides which, a eritic who writes about musie, during «intermission has to listen to a lot of guff. : and walks away, he may leave readers

"and even subscribers in a huff,

= TOWARDS every lobby commentator’s preference =i He must, if he has one ounce or iota of tact, show deference. 0 he smiles when he hears the ultra-conservative listener, 4 for whom music ceased when Gounod finished “Faust,” ‘% Express the at least debatable opinion that all music since, 2 together with all eager listeners thereto, should promptly be de-laust. concert-goers say the works of Darius Milhaud #dake them want to lay their aching heads on a foam-rubber.

Others, more avant garde, au courant and hep, say of Paul Hindemith

That their acquaintance with his abstruse, abstract, atonal, scholarly, sometimes rewarding, but never easy to i. understand works is not only nodding, but also inde-

he starry-eyed sort, having heard Beethoven's “Eroica,” Will say it makes them feel not more pleasure-loving, but rather stoica. § And the Franco- and Belgo-philes, after hearing Cesar bi-lingually comment during intermission of his Sym- * phony in D minor that from it “rien ne manque.”

a CRITIC sometimes has fun

From the lesser compositions of Manuel de Falla He may get an auditory treat comparable to the gustatory : treat of juice of the papaya. he can relish a performance of the “Papillons” by Schumann, ich Guiomar Novaes, the celebrated Brazilian pianist, can play better than in the entire world any other

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ARRIVAL—Railroad station bystanders in Bloomington May 19 and Lafayette May 21 are apt to catch scenes resembling Times Artist Gene Feingold's fantasy of an o disembarked from its special train. Any resem ber of the Metropolitan Opera Company is merely accidental,

a company just nce fo any mem.

says Mr. Feingold, who drew the busy panorama out of his head. But it's more than coincidence that the Met will be in Hoosierland for three performances next month: "Aida," May 19, and "Cosi fan tutte," May 20, in Indiana University auditorium, and “Carmen,” May 21, in Purdue University's Hall of Music.

“Morowitz!’ The fiearer’s the winner, not

So what does it matter when mothers

others?

That'd be psittacism.

He may be the first to throw his hat in the air and shout,

For when Vladimir plays a march by Sousa,

Write in to the Editor and say the critic, if he were halfway a gentleman, should keep his adverse remarks to himself and merely parrot the favorable comments of

Even if he obligingly did so, that wouldnt be criticism—

the lousa. angry relatives and anguished

Job or Drop Candidacy

WASHINGTON, Apr. 26 (UP) ~Chairman James P. Richards of the House Foreign Affairs Committee demanded again today that W, Averell Harriman either quit as Mutual Security Administrator or withdraw his candi dacy for the Democratic presidentigl nomination, South Carolina Democrat

said the success of the foreign ald program, now pending in his committee, Harriman's “undivided attention and upon bipartisan support in Congress , . .”

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lke Pays Farewell Visit to Luxembourg

PARIS, Apr. 26 (UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pays a farewell visit today to the little Grand Duchy of Luxembourg— and to former Washington hostess Mrs. Perle Mesta, the U. 8. minister there. Hale and hearty again after his bout with a cold earlier this week, Gen. Eisenhower will fly to Luxembourg this afternoon on another leg of his final swing around Western Europe as supreme North Atlantic commander,

Kokomo Student Wins Scholarship

Misch Kohn, Herron Art School graduate formerly of Kokomo, has been announced as one of 11 winners of $3000 fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Kohn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kohn of Kokomo, now is

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Visit to West Point BLOOMINGTON, Apr. 26—Two Indiana University seniors will live the life of West Point cadets for four days, beginning Thursday. Dean M. Atkinson, Edwardsport, and Benjamin N. Cragun, Lebanon, will represent the IU ROTC unit in the 150th anniversary celebration at the military academv.

Hold Political Rally . CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr. 26 (UP)—Seven thousand persons pledged themselves at a torchlight meeting last night to fight the nationalist government's attempt to make Parliament supreme over the nation’s courts.

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A. Of course. Q. Name the London plays Broadway will probably get next season? A. “Much Ado About Nothing” (John Gielgud), “The Little Hut” (Robert Morley), “Waters of the Moon” and Terence Rattigan’s| “The Deep Blue Sea.” | Young Going Up | Q. Name 10 brilliant young play-| ers of the current American] stage? A. Julie Harris, Maureen Stapleton, Elf Wallach, Barbara Bel Gedes, Cloris Leachman, Leora Dana, William Prince, Margaret Phillips, Harold Lang, Maggie McNamarra . . . more on request. Q. Are most of the surviving stage stars of yesterday living in New York or vicinity? A. Many of the great ladies arg here; most of the oldtime male stars have passed on. Q. Who are the famous stage people now living in California? A. It's a big list, The West Coast colony includes Elsie Janis, Blanche Ring, Grace RaRue, Louise Dresser, May Boley, Georgia Caine. Q. A few more? A. Well, there's Mary Mannering and Ina Claire and Izetta Jewell and Maude Fealy. And Marjorie Rambeau, Julia Dean, Mary Nash, Mary Young, Edward Ellis, Harry Hilliard, Olive Oliver, Adelaide Nowak. And, of course,

Class in Dramatics

By WARD MOREHOUSE | ~~ NEW YORK, Apr. 26—The critics have done ing on the season's top plays; their luncheons and passing out awards; the drama season. of 1951-52 has only a few weeks to go before it’s writterr

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Broadway area. Q. Such as— : A. Joseph Sweeney, Doro Merande, Russell Collins, Nicholas Joy, Charles Dow Clark, Martin Wolfson. And perhaps, Howard Lindsay—a great one. Q. Who is the theater's most versatile actor of the moment? A. Probably Jose Ferrer. Q. Who used to be? A. Holbrook Blinn, and no dee bate about it. Q. What plays seem to have a chance for the Pulitzer Prize? A. “I Am A Camera,” “Point of No Return,” “The Shrike.”

Lawrence School

Presents Operetta

Lawrence, Ind., Grade School will present the operetta, “Hangel and Gretel” at 8 p. m. Thursday and Friday in the school auditorium. : : J. T. Krantz will take the role of Hansel and Judy Hinds the role of Gretel. Other main characters are Jane Stepp, Judy Giither, Claudia Rea~ ger and Stephen Waymire. A 50-voice choir of boys and girls will be on the program.

Circle Players .—

Hold Audition

The Circle Players will hold auditions for “Detective Story,” their next production, from 7 to 8:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Hotel Antlers ballroom, Douglas Conrod,. who will direct the new production, to be staged June 26 through 29 in the Antlers, invites newcomers to try out. The melodrama calls for 25 men and nines women.

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