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ALL EDITIONS Af ftSpubllC Phoenbt, Sunday, April 36, Dr. Clarence Loom is Composes Score Loomis Composes To Inspire Actors Robert Aden feels he made a great catch Indeed when he persuaded Dr. Clarence Loomis to compose a piusical accompaniment for Arizona Repertory Theater's forthcoming presentation of "Oedipus Rex." Aden will direct the production, to be given May 4, 5, 6 and May 11, 12, 13 at the Heard Museum. "We are mbst pleased," sajd Aden, "that someone of Dr. Loomis 1 stature is doing the musical interpretation of this tremendous play." LOOMIS TALKED about that yesterday in his home.at 5126 E.

Mulberry. "Let's not call it "musfcal background," he said; "Music for a should be so compelling that it will inspire even the actors 'to make the utmost of their roles. The right music cah help the actor's word achieve maximum impression. "I have used modern methods in this musical score for the tragedy, along with a melodic theme to keep it interesting." a pianist and organist as well.as a composer, tape- recorded the score for the play on an organ. It will be played over a sound system during the performance.

"IN THE OVERTURE," he said, "I put most of the musical feeling that later on is -used to Intensify the drama." Loomis first gained national attention as a composer with his opera; "Yolanda of Cyprus," presented by the American Opera Company In 1929. Leonard Liebling, music critic of York "American, "hailed It artistic achievement, above any other American worfc." A vigorous Loomis said he Isn't happy unless he's busy! "I was delighted when Mr. Aden asked me to help out the Repertory players." BEHIND HIM'lie 50 satisfying years as a composer, pianist, and, music He first taught 'at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago; While there he also appeared as- a pianist with the. Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Civic Concerts', Inc. In successive years, he taught at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music in "Indianapolis, Jamestown College in North Dakota, and New Mexico Highlands University.

He 'composed three other successful operas, "A Night 'Radio Rescue 9 For Children Opens Friday Due to a prior commitment of a heavy movie schedule at Apache Junction, director Robert Pollard has announced postponement of the Children's Theater's final production of the season, "Radio Rescue," until the coming weekend. The cast of 12 from 11 to 14 years of age will open the suspenseful drama of two orphans who operate ft ham radio station and participate in a fanciful rescue while being chased by police and orphanage officials next Friday, The schedule for "Radio Rescue 1 Is: Friday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 6 at 10:30 a.m., and 2:30 p.m.; Sunday, May 7 at 2:30 p.m.; Friday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 13 at 10:30 a.m., and 2:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 14 at' 2:30 p.m. Children's Theater Is at 917 E. Sheridan. Tickets are 50 cents.

For reservations call AL 4-7489, ENTRY' TO TOUR NEW YORK national compainy scheduled to tour Tiext.fall jn "Double Entry," offtprpadway'a nwical success by Jay Thompfpn, bill comprises two contrasting sjoiig stories, "The Bible a rural parable, and "Tha Trick jn the World," a rowdy fortune-telling yarn set in New York. Avignon," "Fall of the House of Usher," and "Revival," performed on. the West Coast with the famed 'Hall Johnson Choir. "ONE OF MY MOST gratifying experiences," he writing music and doing a full orchestration for the- Passion Play put on in Spearfish, S. Loomis and his wife, Myrtle, decided to live in The Valley of the Sun in 1957.

Needless to say, they're delighted they made the decision. Yesterday, Loomis was pleased to learn that the Cabrillo College Choral Society of. Rio Del Mar, will perform his composition, "Ebb and Flow," next month in San Francisco. Its theme is the mystery of the sea. Concert Tomorrow concert of medieval, "and fearoque music will be presented tomorrow by the Col- legium Musicum of Arizona State-University.

The Collegium Musicum, derived from the Latin meaning of musical fraternity, properly signifies, a musical connected with a university. Such an association generally emphasizes -the amateur point of view: and gives preference to old, little performed music. The organization, which was founded at ASU by its present conductor, Dr. Philip Nelson, assistant, professor of music, will at 8:15 p.m. in the upper lounge of the ASU Memorial Union.

The concert is free to the public. In 1 addition to singing monophonic and polyphonic music from the 9th to 16th centuries, members of the Collegium will perform on instruments appropriate to that historical period, including recorders and lutes. Martha Bacon, an ASU graduate student from Tempe, will be soloist in a rarely perfomed cantata by Andre a a (1660-1744). She will be accompanied by Judy Conrad, flute, of Phoenix; David Cope, cello, Phoenix; and Merrill Harlari, harpsichord, Phoenix. Other members of the Col- legium Musicum include Brigitta Baron and Shelia Brown, both Tempe; Mary Ellsworth, David Kilpatrick, Ken Lacy, Robert Miller, Lucille Whitmer ajid Farrell Yancey, all Phoenix; Shirley Alder, Pima; Tom Watts, Scottsdale; and Mike Craig, Covina, Calif.

Hilliard, 85, Back On Stage NEW YORK (AP) Returning to Broadway production at the age of 85 is Mack Curdy with a play "Devil to Pay," scheduled for September opening. A veteran of 60 years in various phases of show business, Hilliard. is currently manager of the O'Neill Theater. Most successful of previous staging venlures was Four Walls;" 1 "toy, Earrings Do It For Joan NEW YORK (AP)-She's not that kind of a girl at all, says Joan Hackett, the town's sultry new acting find. It's those earrings.

"They do all sorts of things for me," explains Miss Hackett the siren of "Call Me By My Rightful Name." With rare unanimity, the critics have recorded her performance with such terms as ravishing, bewitching, delicious and alluring. Talent scouts have been camping on her doorstep. "This show has gotten violent reactions," says the sedate, offstage Miss Hackett. "There have been one from the movie studio that tested me four years and decided I wasn't sexy." METHOD ACTRESS Joan accepts such accolades with professional detachment. "I've always been cast as the girl in the long white gloves," she says.

"When I got this part I thought at first I couldn't it. The girl in the play loves everyone. I'm not like that. I'm not romantic about people." The bid to perform in the off- Broadway production of "Call Me By My Rightful Name," reached Miss Hackett on New Year's started 1961 with a bang." In it she forms the distaff side of a beat-era part In Workshop To Stage 4 PlaysAtASU TEMPE As its final presentation of the season, the Arizona State University drama workshop will produce four short plays at 8 p.m. nightly Tuesday through Saturday at Payne auditorium.

The plays are Thornton Wilder's "The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton," "The Queen's Little Finger" by Henry Carewe, August Strindberg's "The Stronger," and "Hello Out There" by William Saroyan. The first three plays will be directed by Frank R. Byers, ASU professor of drama, while Michael Rost, a graduate student from Scottsdale, will direct the Saroyan work. Performances are open to the public. Students will be admitted, upon presentation of their identity cards, while non-holders of the tickets will be charged 75 cents.

Appearing in the plays will be James Mancuso, Thomas D. Miller, and James Seeman, of Phoenix; Sandy Brady, Mary Crawford, and James Lindell, of Tempe; and Lynda Jessen, Judith Pearlman, and Rost, of Scottsdale. Others are Dan Acuff, Casa Grande; Kender Jones, Chandler; Alien Merrill, Glendale Pam Loeb, Lancaster, Calif. Sharon Osher, Esterville, la. Marcia Peterson, Denver, Colo.

Michael Solomon, Philadelphia, Gretchen Walsh', Long Beach, and Lynne Wood, North direct contrast to her 6wn notion of contented living, which is to be alone for hours to" read, paint or reflect. STRUGGLING to work out the role, she found the earring amulet. "I-have a'friend who Is a lot like the girl in the play," she says. "One day she was telling me about a party she had gone to and of how she danced and danced. I asked her what she wore.

She said 'Why slacks, and my hoop earrings." Miss Hackett found an identical slips them on for personality switch each evening as she goes onstage. Joan's father was Irish, her mother she believes that mixture is responsible for her introvert being and her extrovert adaptability. In school she was too scared to appear in class plays Play Looks To Broadway NEW YORK (AP) A New play, "A Fig Leaf in Her Bonnet," is heading for off-Broadway but already has sights set on Main Stem display. Sponsors -of the project have worked out a special financing agreement that calls for transfer of assets tp a new Broadway partnership if the show clicks. The World's Great Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amstefdam 120 MUSICIANS ENCANTO BAND SHELL Saturday, May 20th at 8:30 p.m.

Tklj. H.7S-3.W--J,JJ-UO (Sptclal Student Prlca Jl) On salt LINDE BOX St. at Adamt AL THE FEED BAG Dorine Frank Kunna Owners Originators since 1946 OPEN 530AM to 9:30 PM CLOSED TUESDAY FOR DINNER StfAKS, SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN, BAR.B.Q SEAFOODS Cooled by Refrigeration 504 Main-Mesa Call for WO 4-3163 SERVING LUNCHEON DAILY 11:30 A.M. Cold Meat Plates Crisp Assorted Salads Sandwiches ace SHE Joan Hackett always ended up as the makeup girl and was terribly envious of the others who acted." After graduating six years ago, she became a fashion model. "I NEVER REALLY made it, although everyone kept discovering me periodically," Bette Unworried By Shopworn Role she says.

"It was struggle." A movie scout iaw'hef picture on a magazine Cover and she was called In for the test and no-oomph verdict. "That was four years ago, anA I went back to modeling," Joan relates. "But for the first time 1 began to think about acting." She began study with Mary Welch and discovered something important: "I was always scared to begin, but 1 found out everybody gets shook and it's all right to be shook." She now takes lessons with Lee Strasberg of the Actors' Studio. Her first stage part resulted from her first audition, for off-Broadway revival of "A Clearing in the Woods." "BEFORE I EVER got a job, three agents wanted to sign me," says Joan. Early this season Miss Hackett headed for Broadway in "LaW but that ihow closia tit town whth rtaf Judy HpflWay develop ft throat "THE place to go Of hfer iettftg style, ihe reports: "It 1 im what you do by instinct that people like, but what you ftiaki it grow into." As to tht measure; of her thesplc dedication, Joan replies: "i know i lot of and I've got a feeling that I don't want to become tao like them." HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Bette Davis Is returning to comedy for the first time In 20 years, playing a frazzled old lady with the lilting name of "Apple Annie." Miss Davis long one of screen's fine dramatic actresses, portrays 'the salty gal in Frank Capra's production of "Pocketful of Miracles" 'with Glenn Ford.

The movie, based on a Damon Runyon story, Involves a lady named "Annie" who sells apples to town characters, Including bookies and assorted riff raff. Annie sends the money to her daughter in Europe, pretending the cash is from family wealth. Daughter becomes engaged to marry a European count, tells, Momma she's coming home wjth the prospective groom, and all heck breaks loose'as Annie is confronted with a problem. How does an old gal fresh from the streets with a basket of apples suddenly transform into a wealthy matron? "This' Is Capra's kind of story," said Miss Davis. "It was an enormous hit when first filmed years ago, and he directed it then.

"It was called 'Lady for a Day' and had Mae Robson playing the Annie character." Regardless of "AppleV lack of glamour, Bette is not concerned over looking a little shopworn for the role. "I've never played'anything like it before," she said. "As for glamour, that was never my worry. I started playing odd, all aged people a long time ago." Bette, absent from Hollywood movie studios in recent years, discussed the trends in movie making, such as producers going overseas to shoot pictures. Foreign filming is fast becoming one Qf the major issues in executives offices of Hollywood studios.

prefer working on a sound stage instead of outside," she said, "and, you don't have to go all over 1o make a picture. never done one of those new type pictures where you wander all over the world making it. Anytime you're outdoors shooting. a scene, it's agony." "A PERTLY RAFFISH ENGLISH COMEDY!" THE BOULTINO BROTHERS' CURTAIN 7:30.9:30 VALLEY TEMPE WO 7-4664 PHOENIX Ird Waih. Adm.

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