Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1952 — Page 34

‘Two Plays And Two Dates

By Henry Butler REMINDERS of two important dates are

today. They are: June 26, when the Circle Players open their arena production of “Detective Story” at the Antlers, and

June 21,” when “Blithe : Spirit" rr=ee————— starts the Brown County Play- of a Victor platter of Mendels-| house season in Nashville, Jaks Ppioning Sous tat samme Meanwhile, Gladys Alwes, local out aroun , I'd previously| agent for the Cincinnatt Sum- bought a Columbia platter by mer Opéra, his announced the/Hofmann. Rachmaninoff’s version date of this year's Indianapolis! was worlds ahead. night. It will be Saturday, July| I don’t suppose any living read19, and the opera will be "Marlo ot The Times recalls the great dam Butterfly.” 1 n phonograph ballyhoo The Cincinnati season, by the about Rachmaninoff, (Or, for way, opens Sunday, June 29, with that matter, the business of hurl“La Traviata,” starring Eleanor) ing unbreakable Edison records Steber, David Poleri and Robert! Weede. P i story SivSctaper). Behind i Operas will be given six eve-! screen, chmaninoff at the) nings a week, omitting Mondays. Steinway and the Edison phono-| . ” y ' a aph could be told apart. So! HAVING LEARN can get the ran. the Rachmaninoff Fourth Con-| And I don't suppose any living certo on LP, I feel like a bit of reader of The Times owns Rach-| public rejoicing. This also is a maninoff’s recording for Edison |of p | gi Tie Benigni Slog lo “Rachmaninofr have forced:themselves to make. OW ingenious cadenza) or his I never heard Rachmaninoff{Mozart A major (theme and| play one of his concertos. When| variations) Sonata. you were a piano student 30 years For Victor, he did a whole slew ago, you budgeted your money of “salon” pieces long before for solo recitals—more thrill per|electronic improvements. My fadollar. Belatedly, I've grown to|/vorite of the recordings he did like the Rachmaninoff Second|on the improved process was the Concerto, a nice LP retake in Beethoven C minor Variations. which you can hear the pitch| Our culture is all mixed up with variations of the original 78 machines. They teach us things. album. My public

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sion, is that I get a real charge out phonograph help. out of that concerto. Nobody has| 8 8 4 ever played it the way Sergei him-| AT THE PIANO, Rachmaninoff self did. With the superb accom- reaches immortality in that series paniment Leopold Stokawski and|of Philadelphia recordings. the Philadelphia Orchestra gave Saturate yourself with the Secsome 25 years ago, that record- ond Concerto, and you'll find it ing Is out of this world. wears awfully well, The tone, the In these days, an excessive eloquence, the rubato of Rachfondness for Rachmaninoff un-|Mmaninoff’s playing are unequaled. doubtedly Indicates arrested de. As in the Paganini Rhapsody, velopment. But I have a kind of|nobody can beat the composer,

* superstifious feeling that if I ever not. even Artur Rubinstein, who went all out for Bartok and his also has a lot of keyboard talent:

fik, I'd wake up some morning Rachmaninoff’s playing gives a died yesterday at her. Sutton : . i SR 3. our Tracy, a4 1, a series. of professional band conwith both eyes pd one side of my| lift to. his music. In all truth; the Place home. ve {senior who" has. been AE ad Joab in Indo-China, at 2:35, | cefts with De ‘provided through the|

¥ nose; Picasso style: " Second Concerto. is less than * ._ yy 8-8 RACHMANINOFF started late as a virtuoso, the biographies tell

you. He built his own special

neither Brahms nor Tchiakovsky, and maybe net even up to the Cesar Franck level. But Rach-

technical style, which seemed, meaning igi in th re-Horowitz| ™¢ . prod gons .D P | The quasi-oriental looking, 'the Boston Opera Co.

from the roof of the local six-|

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Cl SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1953

LIFETIME THRILL—The glory of a circus and what it means to a youngster form the theme of this week's panel by Times Artist Gene Feingold. Mr. Feingold's drawing is a reminder that Mills

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Brothers’ Three-Ring Circus will blay shows at 2 and 8 p. m. Wednesday at the Fair Grounds. It will be sponsored here by the Irvington Lions Club, with part of the proceeds benefiting the Lions' Charitable Activities Fund.

PS == ardent support-

[Direct From Broadway— Nine Sure-Fire Plays Listed for Visitors

By WARD MOREHOUSE. NEW YORK, June 14—Here are nine of the current

attractions unhesitatingly recommended: “The King and I” and “Guys and Dolls” and “Pal

Joey"; “Point of No Return” and “I Am a Camera” and

“The Moon Is Blue”; “South |Pacific” and “Paint Your Wagon” jn as the ticket in greatest deland “The Male Animal.” . .. Ilmand; it’s still so popular there's /didn’t care for % {never a vacant seat at the 46th. “Mrs. McThing,” ‘But now the play that's men{but haven't met {tioned first, when you get a longanother play- {distance call from an old friend ‘goer, man, wom- 'who is heading for New York, 1s an or child, who “The King and L” . . . Nobody's wasn't enchant- ‘overlooking “Pal Joey.” Drop in ed with it, at the Broadhurst any WednesAnd there are |day matinee and you'll find the |fireman counting the standees, {just to make sure the box office lhasn’t sold an 8.R.O. slip or {beyond the legal number. Of course, the New Yorker whe night), **Top ican hear an out-of-town voice (Banana,” “The : ‘and name the state of the visitor \Fourposter” and “Stalag 17.” And js pritz Meyer, ticket taker at there's “Of Thee 1 Sing,” given tne ghubert. He's never mistaken a reprieve at the Ziegfeld. lan Alabama drawl for an Iowa It’s good showmanship on Billy twang; he’s never heard a Caro|Rose’s part, and also very gra-|jina accent without being able to cious of him, to turn over the fine|gqy whether it’s from Raleigh or ‘playhouse in the Avenue of the| Asheville, or from Rock Hill or Americas to the “Of Thee I Sing” columbia. Call at the ‘Shubert |company on 8 porent basis for land try him sometime. the summer. Every y Ww e taking a pay cut around the Zieg- Answers to Queries feld, but everybody will be work- ~ Mary Kohn: The play you mening. I won't be at all surprised tion in which Elsie Ferguson ap. [to be told that there's a sudden Peared was called “The Varying \rash of trade at Mr. Rose's Shore.” written by Zoe AKins, theater. . . . Miss Akins is in California. Miss * 1 was in Cdlcutta or some-| Ferguson is at Old Lyme, Conn. where when “Of Thee I Sing”! C. Stanley Reinhart: Yes, Judith lopened and haven't seen this new|Anderson was born in Australia. \production of an old musical hit.[She has been known to friends

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ers, I suppose, [for “New Faces |of 1952” (packed ‘house every

Morehouse

I would never have known the stoop-shouldered character with! and Rachmaninoff C minor Concerto the crew cut, baggy eyes. and maybe it's a humiliating admis-|or the Paganini Rhapsody with-'tardy smile,

these records.

Requiem Mass Monday a: For Famed Soprano

great. This distilled pathos 'is|American parents in Shanghai, eligible. | sang leading roles in French, Those attending the recent Gérman and Italian operas at the board meeting included Dr. Fa-| Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 bien Sevitzky, Gerald Carrier, Al-! maninoff endows it with rich and retired from the stage in bert Losche, Bernard Batty, Dr.| : “1912 after several seasons with John Spalding and Miss Jose-

Scholarship Contest Set

The board of directors of “the Feeney Memorial Scholarship {Fund have set dates for the com|ing year’s competition. NEW YORK, June 14 (UP)—| A preliminary contest

lives on through

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A solemn requiem mass will be string instruments will be held at| offered Monday at the Roman Butler University’s Jordan Col-| Catholic Church of 8t. Vincentijege of Music Sadurday, Jan. 24, Ferrer for Emma ' Eames, 84,1953 with the finals scheduled

star soprano of the golden age ror the morning of Apr. 25, 1953.| of the Metropolitan. Opera, who!

Any Jordan College junior or

Mme. Eames, who was born. of|aPolis- at least one year will

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CIRCLE ° “Flame of Araby,” with Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler, at 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30. “No Room for the Groom,”

Band Concert Season Opens

with

T . Tonys os and Piper laurle, at |,,.iment has announced ESQUIRE | ; | “My Son John,” with Helen Hayes. |OPening of its annual summer at 3:35. 5:10, T4523 Imusic program at 8 p. m. nex “The San Francisco Story,” with a Yvonne DeCarlo and. Joel McCrea, Sunday in Garfield Park at 1 3:85 6:55. 10 Featured will be the Indian-|

The Lion and the Herse.” with Steve Cochran, a} 2:30, 5:30, 8:35.

“I Dream of Jeanie,” with Ray |Vandaworker and Middicton and Bill Shirley, at 1:20, 4:20. 7:05, 9:50. » ‘Here Come the Marines.” at 2:55, 5:55, 8:40. . LOEW'S ‘Pat and Mike,” with Katharine

[tington directing. | Tobe announced at

LYRIC, # - “Rancho Notorious,” with Mar. Mel ‘Ferrer and Ar-

thur Kennedy, 125, 4:15, 1.06, i 58. ennedy; a: 1 = 415 7:9. the Music Performance Trust| | J Yo hoy or the 310.8, saoord Man” at 12:20. |pyng of the recording industry. | nation’s most

The Park and Recreation De- come to Broadway on playgoing

{apolis News. Boys’ Band, J. B Ellis Carroll] directing, assisted by the Western Electric Glee Club, Richard Whit-

later dates, 1c

_|co-operation of Local 8, American {Federation of Musicians aided by,

Iphine Madden. ,

With all due respect to Mr.

Horowitz I'm old-fashioned ’ / enough to believe that Rachmaninoff was a better pianist. Maybe # he didn’t have quite so much

horsepower on the octaves, but 9 he could do a sensational A fiat| Kommeth Roberts

Polonaise long before Jose Iturbi

lized Chopin in Hollymorals? Coop °1 Semdtrtional Best-Seller I ittle thi , hi yon-| dertu. 1 stil remember the thrii| Of Haiti, Voodoo | And Passion!

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