Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1952 — Page 4

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"Of Thee I Sing'Purdue Show Is Best Yet

By HENRY BUTLER Times Special Writer

LAFAYETTE, May 2-The Purdue "Of Thee I Sing" production is the best Purdue Harlequin Show I've seen yet. Albert P. Stewart, music director, and Ross D. Smith, dramatic director, certainly were fortunate in getting amateur-production rights to this Kaufman-Gershwin classic be-/ Sullivan, Broadway tunesmiths, fore Broadway grabbed it again/ Maurice Ravel and Gershwin him-box-office. |self at his best. It's a treat to The show is terrific. On the gi-/ hear, though I'd like to hear more gantic stage of Purdue's Hall of strings in Al Stewart's otherwise Music, animated scenes of young/ commendable pit band. people singing and gesticulating/ Singing is generally good, spread out to mob-size. Broad-/ though ensembles tend to shout way never saw the like./ too much now and then. Big,

That wide-angle effect is one/ splashy sets (Sam Marks, tech-

(Sam Marks, tech- Barbara LeRoy,/ Favored by PTA

great virtue of this Purdue audi-/ nical director. torium. The current show, to be/ scenic artist) are swell. And repeated tonight and tomorrow, makes the most of it./ some nice dance routines dreamed makes the most if it./ up by Nancy Brock liven things Youthful Cast/ a lot.

This 1952 joint operation by show added charm seldom seen/ Purdue Musical Organizations in such quantity on Broadway./ and the Purdue Playshop is someOne thing may startle some/ thing to see. spectators. That's the freedom of/ Bruce McGuire and Thomas humor. When George Kaufman/ Wilson, assistant music directors, and Morrie Ryskind wrote the/ have helped Mr. Stewart make it book for this show 20 years ago,/ something to hear. writers could be much freer with

their political satire, Some of the gags in "Of Thee I Sing" may/ Parking Lot Burglars

make you look nervously over/ Given 1-Year Terms boys today

your shoulder. The book sums up the absurdi-/ Two 17-year old

ties of the early 1930's ("Posterity/ were sentenced to one year on Is Just Around the Corner," for/ the Indiana State Farm and fined

example). It has a President, John P. Wintergreen (nicely sung/ $100 in Criminal Court for the

and acted by John Bently), get/ Feb. 17 burglary of a downtown himself elected on a love plat-/ parking lot. form. Mary Turner (excellently/ Judge Harry O. Chamberlain, played by Martha Phillips) is the/ Criminal Court 1, sentenced Elgal./ don Shaw, 705 N. Davidson St., Naturally, there's another wom-/ and Norman Coffey, 704 N. Pine an, Diana Devereaux (wonderful/ St job by Patricia Berry of Indianap-/ The bosy now will face another

olis), who had been promised the/ judge in Criminal Court 2 on They were

candidate's hand in marriage if/ charges of escape. she won the Atlantic City beauty/ among the seven inmates who

contest. Dated Satire/ Apr. 8 after the teen-age sweetAnd there's some dated satire/ heart of a prisoner and smuggled

on the office of the Vice President./ hacksaw blades to them. Date for

In the show, he's Alexander/ this trial has not been set. Throttlebottom, played with effec- tive meekness by Frank Modisett./ Seven Believed Dead tive meekness by Frank Modisett. All this stuff, sometimes ex-/ tremely hilarious and funnier than you'd believe possible from the/ In Plunge of B-29 you'd believe possible from the 1930's, is set to nicely fluent/ TAMPA, Fla., May 2 (UP) music. As you recall, there's only/ An Air Force B-29 plunged into one good show tune, "Of Thee I/ the Gulf of Mexico near here while practing low-level gunnery.

The rest of the music is a re-/and seven of its 14-man crew markable compound of influences./were missing today and believed George Gershwin was in im-/dead. mensely gifted musician with a/ Surviviors said the big 4superb ear and memory. In this/ engined bomber crashed into the opus he has material in the/water nose first yesterday, broke various manners of Sir Arthur/in half and sank in one minute.

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‘Tune Detective’/Jap Minister To Speak Here/Apologizes to

A "tune detective" who special-/U. S. for Riots izes in tracing popular songs back to their 17th and 18th Century origins will/bloody Communist-led anti-Amer-

Wednesday noon/scores of Americans were inmeeting of the/jured yesterday. Executives' Club./Foreign Minister Katsuo OkaDr. Sigmund/ zaki called on the new U. S. am Spaeth, author/bassador, Robert D. Murphy, to

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Annual Promotion | POLICE SAID 153 suspected

rioters have been arrested in To-|

Promotion of public school/as result of the May Day demonpupils once a year only and aboli-/strations. Attorney-General Totion of the two-semster school/kutario Kimura informed the Jaption of the two-semster school/anese cabinet that a "mysterious year are favored by most Indian-/foreign woman"-reported by apolis Parent-Teacher Association/some newspapers to be Russianunits./was seen directing the rioters in Tokyo. After making a study of a school administration plan to/The cabinet met to consider a switch to the single promotion/possible crackdown on the Comyear, elementary school PTA/munists. It alerted police for new

year, elementary school PTA/munists. It alerted police for new groups registered 66 votes of ap-/disburbances coinciding with offiproval and 16 against the meas-/cial Independence Day celebra-

proval and 16 against thetmeasure. The high schools voted five/tions tomorrow to two in favor of annual entrances and promotions.

The vote of approval by a majority of PTA groups does not mean the change will be made, school officials said.

Hit by Bakery Strike SEATTLE, Wash., May 2 (UP) An estimated 10,000 bakery

workers were idled today after They said it could not be done/AFL bakers walked off the job at midnight in major Washingwithout school board approval./ton state cities, and the strike No date has been set for board/was expected to spread to Oregon action on the question./tonight.

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