The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 23

The Shkeveport Times Tuesdav, Oct. 22, CURTAIN CALL "WW- 1imiiini.ic.jji i 5 1 M' 5 si ,4, fc-i ON WITH THE SHOW By PERICLES ALEXANDER Today's Symphonic Debuts phony, John Shenaut conducting, launches a tenth anniversary season in the capital city of the Ark-La-Tex this evening in Byrd High School Auditorium. The hour will be 8:15 p.m. and the soloist. Grant Johannesen.

iust returned from a Sen- tember concert tour of Europe and playing his first of a new season with the city's resident ensemble. The tenth anniversary season's opening pair of concerts today and Wednesday will serve to introduce on the Shreveport musical scene not only Johannesen but also the orchestra's new concertmaster, Sam Terranova, in his first public appearance. In presenting Johannesen as soloist, nlavins? the Brahms' resident orchestra continues a first to bring into focus locally is 4-year-old Paddy LaRue. At left is LaRue and their two-year-old son, Kim LaRue headlines his own western show on the Royal American Shows' Midway of the 1957 Louisiana State Fair. (Times Photo by Lloyd Stilley.) TOOL-SIDE HORSEPLAY WITHOUT THE HORSE The scene is not Hollywood's but was taken at a Shreveport motel Involved in the playful hijinks are all hands of Cowboy Lash LaRue's family.

Applying a towel to the cowboy star's head HOLLYWOOD AND VINE By I1EDDA HOPPER CONCERTMASTER Ponziani To Marshall Orchestra MARSHALL. Oct. 21 (Special The board of the Marshall Symphony Society and its musical director, Max Madrid, have named Felix Ponziani of Shreveport as concertmaster of its orchestra for the 1957-58 season. For five seasons Ponziani was concertmaster of the Shreveport Symphony under its conductor, John Shenaut. He is expected to continue to make his home in Shreveport and will commute between the two cities for rehearsals and concerts.

With Betty Conley Butter-worth as soloist, the Marshall Symphony plays its first concert of the new season Oct. 29 with Max Madrid conducting. Bennett Farnham is secretary-treasurer of the Marsahll Symphony Society, which is now in the midst of its season ticket drive. A Portadown, Northern Ireland, manufacturer has developed complete mechanization of threading machines on hand embroidery looms. presents BUSIES The World's Most Honored Show NOW MICHAEL TODD'S BOX OFFICE 10 A.M.

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21 Phineas Fogg wasn't at Mike Todd's "Around the World in 80 Days" anniversary party at Madison Square Garden, despite every kind of inducement sung since "Lady in the Dark" some 17 years a go, sings with Tennessee Ernie Ford on his TV show. After the holidays Mac will make a quick trip to London for his partnership deal on "Cork in the Bottle," a mystery tale written by his cousin, MacDonald Hastings. The mo- tion picture will be made in England and Mac will star in it as well as co-produce. Darryl Zanuck, who gets 40 per cent of his two pictures, "Island in the Sun" and "The Sun Also Rises," is set to clean up more than one million dollars on them. Tyronne Power topped the cast in salary, getting $350,000 for his work in "Sun" $100,000 more than Ava's check.

Ed Sullivan took me to the English play "Look Back in Anger" and between acts we talked with Edna Ferber, who didn't like it, either. Never heard such singing of the The Shreveport Civic Opera Assn. is so hep on staging a major production in the new Marjorie Lyons Playhouse of Centenary College this season that a top official put through a long distance telephone call to Centenary President Joe Mickle in New Orleans to negotiate for dates Current Shreveport visitors and guests of the Louisiana State Fair and Sam Levy of Barnes Carruthers Shows are Doug Baldwin, secretary aand manager of the Minnesota State Fair, and John Libbey, assistant to Baldwin There's a late Florentine Club dinner party planned for Grant Johannesen following tomorrow evening's Shreveport Symphony concert and expected to attend is coloratura soprano Rosina da Rimini Accompanied by Luciie Bond, tne colorature will give a concert tonight in Muskogee, Okla. Tomorrow night's performance of "Reluctant Debutante" positively will be curtains for the Shreveport Summer Theater production at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Is the large membership of the theater so tuckered out it can't get around to seeing the light British comedy? NSC President John S. Kyser was bedded with influenza last Thursday and didn't make it over for the "Around the World in 80 Days" opening at the Saenger President Kyser was up and about Saturday and in Shreveport for the Tech-NSC football fracas, the results of which may have put him back in bed The Benny Goodman Orchestra directed by Urbie Green will be playing dates in the south and southwest Dec.

5-23 The Strand Theater is selling tickets like hot cakes to its Friday horror playbill of shock movie and stage fare, which promises the "materialization" of James Dean This we gotta see to believe "Around the World in 80 Days" has its first mid-week matinee performance tomorrow at the Saenger. Ralph Flanagan in Etex MARSHALL, Texas, Oct. 21 (Special) Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra will be on the bandstand for the 20th anniversary ball of the Belmont Club, opening the club's social season here Tuesday night. The dance will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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Cliburn also finds time to compose both classical and popular music and several of his works have been performed in New York and elsewhere. When he is in New York, where he makes his home on Manhattan's famous 57th Street, Cliburn is a regular Sunday 'performer at the Baptist Church next door to Steinway Hall. Van's career progresses by leaps and bounds. Was it Schumann who wrote of the young Chopin, "Hats off, gentlemen, a Well, if gentlemen wore hats at Cliburn concerts, they would be tossed in the air! PIANISTS IN THE NEWS Ark-La-Tex musical news of the week centers around two pianists. Grant Johannesen and Van Cliburn.

The former will appear at 8:15 p.m. today as soloist with the Shreveport Symphony, playing Brahms Second Concerto, at Byrd High School Auditorium. In suburban Natchitoches Cliburn will open the Natchitoches Community Concerts' season tomorrow night, playing a recital for the membership in the NSC Fine Arts Auditorium. Programmed are Bach's Toccata in Minor, a Chopin bracket consisting of the Scherzo in Sharp Minor, Two Etudes and Ballade in A Flat, Opus 47, the Beethoven "Appas-sionata" Sonata, Samuel Barber's Fugue, two Rachmaniov Preludes, Scriabine's Nocturne for the Left Hand, and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12.

Miss. Man Due Here for Speech Jack P. Waldrop, representative of Gas Vent Pipe Company from Jackson, will give a talk illustrated with slides to the air conditioning code class at the Shreveport Trade School, at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The talk will be on the methods of proper venting of gas heating appliances and the effects of improper venting, according to city air conditioning inspector Clyde Juneau.

iVew Deputy Clerk Sworn in Here Mrs. Norma Jean Jones, 3507 Houston, yesterday was sworn in as a new deputy clerk in the office of U. S. Clerk of Court Alton Curtis. Mrs.

Jones will fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Deputy Clerk Thomas W. Thompson to chief deputy. Thompson succeeds former Chief (Deputy Mrs. Mina Holt, who retired Saturday. Mrs.

Jones was sworn in in ceremonies conducted yesterday morning by Curtis. fl.te i 1T VJ rtf 6W rnv 4 V.tnCS VHP A Second Piano Concerto, the commendable policy of being the keyboard talents of a new generation of pianists, several of whom are heirs-apparent to the mantle of many a vir- tiinsn artist In recent seasons there have been Byron Janis, Leon Fl.eisher, Jorge Bolet, and Van Cliburn, to name a precious handful of talents, all imposing enough for a community which applies musicians while also paying profitable homage to Elvis and company. Some of the affection and adulation which Shreveport lavishes on the keyboard frater- mry is iraceaoie in pari to me fact that the city considers Van Cliburn a native son, al- though foreign powers claim that his citizenship is Texan. Thp vnnnt nmnict himciMf tnrn between many loves and the admiration of natives in Kil- gore, Longview, and Shreve- 13 Willing tllUUII IU called Ark-La-Texan and that he is. Cliburn is tall enough to be a Texan and endowed with sufficient gifts to be a Louisianian and that 3 for all.

However, some measure of Cli-burn's DODiilaritv can he deter mined by the fact that both Louisiana, where he was born in Shreveport in 1934, and Texas, where he moved to Kilgore at an early age, wage a dispute to claim him for their own. When Van returned to play with the Dallas Symphony, the critic of the Dnltas Morninc John Rosenfield, headlined his five-column feature story "Cliburn Comes Like a Rubinstein" and after a whole string of critical accolades like "musical sensitivity mastery of repertoire the finest piano talent since William Kapell pointed out that "He should never accept an engagement 'back home unless at a regular fee and because his services are in demand. And that is exactly the happy position of Van Cliburn of Kilgore in accepting an engagement with the Dallas Symphony. Cliburn's appearance as soloist with his other "home town" orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony, was hailed as "a musical event of extreme magnitude." The Shreveport Times' critic penned: "Kileore mav have heard Van nlav mrvrp rinrinc vmr 1. 'l i.

j. iui oiire vfjjuri mu nut iorgta nun Whether Texas or Louisiana can first lay claim to him soon hpramp an nraripmif rnrnsmn All these United States can be rirmirl j-if him Whatever thp epnprj-ohiral background of his talent, the young Cliburn showed his musical bent early. He made his III si i'uuik, dppccJi duct; cxi at 5 played a program with his mother (who was also his tpnnhorl nnrl ufr 19 iha Texas Prize which presented him in his orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony playing the Tchaikowsky B-flat Minor Concerto. The following year he won the National Music Festival Award in New York's Carnegie Hall and was offered a managerial contract which he turned down to complete his schooling. A graduate of Kilgore High School in 1952, he walked off with the G.

B. Dealey Memorial Award, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin AuinrH nnrl thp Cnrrertn Contest. In 1953, he was the Olga Sama-' roff Foundation grantee at the Juilliard School where he began IllO OIUU1LO Willi J.Alllt. iiiina LjllK. vinne.

When he was graduated in 1954 he was awarded the school's highest honors, both the Frank Damrosch and the Carl M. Roeder Awards, the latter enabling him to rphirn tr fnr a vpnr nf crnrlurif studv. Then he appeared in competition for the Leventritt "Award and won it hands down. He was the first Leventritt winner since 1949, no talent having appeared in the interval which could measure up to the exacting standards of the awards committee. Not content with his successes, Van constantly seeks to improve his art.

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David Niven wrote from abroad: "I'm spending that Thursday night with an elderly aunt in Scotland who's only seen one motion picture in her entire life and hated it so she has never been in a theater since. She has a vague idea I'm in the whisky business in California, which is true in a manner of speaking. "While in Monaco where he visited Grace and Rainier and found them both looking remarkably well, they showed us the new home they're building high in the mountains above Monaco. We had a gala picnic up there. I've finished 'Bon-jour Tristesse' and will sail this coming week-end lor New York.

I'll be in Manhattan for a week, then back to Hollywood for 'Separate Trevor Howard sends word from London, where he's scheduled to make "The Key" with Bill Holden and Sophia Loren, that he's set up his own Hollywood production company, Union Jack. What's more he bought his first property, The Duke Goes West by Desmond Farnel, and will star in it. It's about a bankrupt Englishman of title who uses his last funds to buy an Arizona cattle ranch. He wants Maureen O'Hara for the Irish lass and expects to begin the film early in January. When Trevor was 5 he played Little Lord Fauntleroy in Mary Pick-ford's silent movie.

Revival of Boris Karloff's old Frankenstein character on TV has served as a spurt to his career. He's been put under contract for two major films, his first to be "Frankenstein's Castle" with Boris back playing the familiar monster. It's a new twist on the old story and show a TV company producing a show from a German castle in celebration of the 140th anniversary of Mary Shelley's book. Maurice Chevalier, still in Hollywood, will emcee the Paris giant variety. The show, a big item in Paris with all top stars of Europe participating, is given every Monday night at the Maurice Che-valir theater.

MacDonald Carey, who hasn't Goo- at A AO V- vY -V" oCV v- Alt Goou" Michael Hall, who played Fred-ric March's son in "Best Years of Our Lives," has grown up and he gets the male lead in Herman Cohn's production, "Blood of Drac-ula." Mitzi Gaynor is disappointed because she won't be able to attend the command performance of "Les Girls." She'll still be working on "South Pacific." First Whooper Sighted in Tex. AUSTIN, Oct. 21 (INS) The Game and Fish Commission reported today the first of the rare whooping cranes has arrived at the National Wildlife Refuge at Aust-well. It was spotted. by Claude Lard, director of the refuge, which is in Refugio County on the Gulf Coast.

Last winter 23 of the nearly-extinct huge, white birds took sanctuary in the refuge. Civil Suit Here Enters 2nd Day Trial of a $308,632 damage suit will enter its second day today in federal court here before Judge Ben C. Dawkins Jr. The suit was filed by five Texaans against in-suror of Dr. J.

M. Williams, Shreve port attorney whose car was involved in a wreck here Sept. 6, 1956. Suit was filed by M. W.

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