Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1952 — Page 20

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By Henry Butler LAFAYETTE, May 22—The Metropolitan Opera's

new

“Carmen,” which occupied the Purdue Hall of Music last

night, is dominated by one presonality.

That is Rise Stevens. For better or worse, Miss

Stevens departs from tradition.) g,ccess than the first, though also| The Marion Circuit Court judge | She does Carmen with something hampered by the

of the spirit of the “Carmen Jones™ adaptation of Bizet's

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unfortunate |

{shaliowness of the Purdue stage. Thurl Rhodes that tHe ordinance |

Ramon Vinay, the evening's

opera. jDone ‘Jose, was in unfortunately

‘She takes romance and rose-in-, teeth cuteness out of the lament-|

able heroine's performance and| That was regrettable, since he

makes her all too evidently a Qu-/ Tae on excellent appearance in [the role. | Frank Guarrera, as FEscamillo, believed adequate laws on which!

did excellent singing and acting to base arrests of suspicious per-|

liquent girl. After two acts of her stomping about the stage and literally screaming when the score permits, you begin to wonder what, besides Miss Stevens’ evident physical endowments, Carmen has that induces Done Jose to wreck! his life for her.

Hard-Boiled

As a high-tempered, shrewish| Carmen, Miss Stevens has the) advantage of a formidable mezzo voice not over-burdened with) subtlety. . . her *“Habanera’ | and “Seguidilla,” possibly with | some influence from Conductor Eritz Reiner, who keeps tempos fairly lively, are hard-boiled rather than romantic. The familiar proceedings of the opera take place in settings somewhat shifted around from traditional arrangement. Costumes, also by Rolf Gerard, are somber, using probably historically accurate colors instead of the usual parade of many-colored operatic Spanish outfits,

In Bad Voice

As of that time, the second act had been a much greater artistic Owing to present temporary difficulties of transmission, we were obliged to leave at the end of Act II in order {o get this report on its way.

DOWNSTAIRS

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White by

bad voice, with fatigue and flatting sometimes painful to hear.

in the Act II Toreador song. Mr.| Guarrera Tuesday night had done | big work in “Tosi Fan Tutte” down in Bloomington. |

Sings Micaela Nicely |

Nadine Conner sang Micaela Very nicely. Others needing men- | tion are Osio ‘Hawkins, as Zuniga ;| Clifford Harvout, as Morales, Lu-| cine Amara, as Frasquita; Herta Glaz, as Mercedes; George Cehan-| ovsky, as Dancaire, and Allxx| Alessio De Paolis, as Romenado.

It was a real experience to hear the Met's superb orchestra ripping off that introduction and later doing the wind-up of the gypsy dance at terrific speed. The ballet were somewhat handicaped by ever-present danger of falling into the orchestra pit.

Speaking of the Gypsy dance, ! Miss Stevens’ sinuous performing during it was something to see. There's a gal who never need! worry about losing her voice.

Watch for Spud Culls

DENVER, Colo, May 22 (UP) —Vigilante groups of organized potato growers set up road blocks in the San Luis Valley today to keep cull potators from reaching the retail market.

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‘Won't Replace It,’ City Officials Say

Indianapolis today wiped off its iq {law book ‘an ordinance branded a!”

“police state measure” and city officials said there would ‘be no effort to replace ft. Judge Lloyd D. Claycombe yesterday ruled invalid the ordinance which required citizens to, “give an account” of themselves to police officers.

upheld the motion of attorney |

which grew out of the 1951 codi-| fication of city laws was '‘uncon-! stiutiondl.” City Corporation Counsel Pal-

no plan to write a new law to re-| place this ordinance, He said he,

sons already are on the books. | Woman Released 3 The ruling unlocked the door of | Indiana Women's Prison today| for 19-year-old Marelyn Hopper, | whose conviction on that charge was used to “tést” the ordinance. | The teen-ager was arrested in| her hotel room on that charge) after a wife named her as the| “other woman” in a domestic tri-| angle. | After her conviction on the] charge, a group of citizens interested - in testing the validity of what they called a “police state measure” retained Attorney Thurl Rhodes to make a test-case of that conviction, { An order for her release was signed by Judge Claycombe after he gave his decision that the city ordinance violated provisions of] the Indiana and U, 8. Constitue tions. Charges Dismissed The ruling figuratively unlocked jail doors for five other persons, all currently under arrest and awaiting hearing on the same charge. | Judge Phillip Bayt of Municipal Court 3 today said he would have] officers inform these five people, | all free on bond or on their own recognizance, that charges against them have been dismissed. ‘Prompt Account’ “I didn’t think much of the law |

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was not truthful, it empowered

anyway,” said Judge Bayt. The ordinance required any person stopped by a police officer ‘to give a “prompt, straightforward and accurate account of their whereabouts, If in the officer's judgment such account

police to search the individual, inquire of a criminal record and required the citizen to submit to search and to answer such questions. In

the law, Mr.

opposing

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Law Wiped Out

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