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5 vm Or KIwnftKV KUBVtli I iffifi fcf OSCAR KAMMERSTEIN by HAMMflSTfIN JOSMUA A MJCHf Nft PHm TAlfS Of rnf SOUTH mill L9IAI 1 by JO I by Mgi.iol WHl 4.55, tu IBC. Sponsored by Junior ber of Com- of lia Waco A 0 Page Sunday, December 14, 1952 JEFFREY HUNTER finds Jean Peters unwilling to accept his gift in this scene from "Lure of the now playing at the Circle Drive-In Theatre with "Man Who Cheated Himself." 11111 -t I The Arts in Review By Gynter New-Found Star of Piano World Will Be Heard by Civic Music Audience Those who have not heard Gina Bachauer, either in Dallas or elsewhere last season or in the few recordings she has made for phonograph, are not fully aware of what a treat is in store for Civic Music members next Thursday when she appears in Waco Hall. For music critics of the relatively few cities in which she has appeared in this country have labeled her a magnificent pianist of unquestioned artistry, and her recordings them out. Mme. Bachauer, a Hellene despite her Nordic name, has been in this country only a bit more than two years, making her American debut in New Town Hall October of 1950.

Although she had been accepted as a pupil by none other than Serge Rachmaninoff; although she had wrung extravagant praise from Dame Myra Hess and from Dimitri Mitropoulos, who conducted for her debut in her native Athens; and although she had become the toast of Europe, the acclaim lavished on her on the other side of the Atlantic was regarded with no little skepticism by those who pass on affairs musical in New York. (The Times sent one of its second-string men to her recital.) But all that was changed in short order. The Gotham newspapers the following day printed such descriptive terms as miracle of phenomenal" and of the grest artists of our Irving Kolodin, who surveys the scene for the Saturday Review and for others who use his syndicated writings, summed it Real Theatre To Be Used For Picture By JACK GARVER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Dec. once there will be a movie about the stage that will utilize a real Broadway theatre.

The scenes will not be in any fancv reproduction of what Hollywood thinks a Broadway house ought to look like. be looking at the honest inside and out- side of the Martin Beck Theatre when the movie Street to gets into circulation about the middle of next year. Crew and actors have been swarming through the place for a week during the brief period when this theatre on West Forty-fifth Street has been idle between attractions. Stars Will Appear And such actors! Mary Martin. Helen Hayes.

Rex Harrison, Lili name a few of the stars who are receiving token payments for appearing as themselves in this film that was conceived more than two years ago as a piece of entertainment. that would be good propaganda for the legitimate theatre. The critics and prominent first- nighters also were prevailed upon this week to appear in scenes at the theatre depicting a typical Broadway opening night. Miss Martin, who made a flying trip here from London after closing there in was in a scene with Jo Ann Sayers and Joshua Logan, the director and producer who acted since shortly after he escaped from Princeton U. Song for Mary Martin Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the noted musical show collaborators, also were this week.

They wrote a special song, Music in for Miss Martin to sing in the picture. Lester Cowan, the producer, and Tay Garnett, the director, have been working on the actual filming for about six months, sometimes working here, more often working in Hollywood. During that time, some of the big names who have co-operated by appearing are Tallulah Bankhead. Katharine Cornell, Herb Shriner, Gertrude Berg and Olivia de Havilland. The idea of such a film originated with the Council of the Living Theatre which is engaged in an active campaign to stir up folks around the country to patronize touring shows.

It got Robert E. Sherwood to Hour and a Half Needed To Make Up Bloody Marv In Rodgers and famous which plays two evening performances at Waco Hall Dec. 22 and 23. you will see Dorothy Franklin in the A WASTE OF BEAUTY, you might say, Dorothy Franklin, ieft, has the make-or-break role of Bloody Mary in the Rodgfrt-Hammersttiii "South which comes to up with: in her rise affirms the cliche. always room at the MME.

BACHAUER, as her name would indicate, is of Austrian heritage. Her grandfather, a military man, was a member of the entourage which came to Athens in 1863 with the Danish prince who was to establish the present Greek dynasty as King George I. Her first serious study of piano was at the Athens Conservatory under Waldemar Freeman. The latter, who had been off's partner in two-piano recitals, sent her to the brooding Russian master in London. There she was at last received and was permitted to play for him, and after further study under the noted Alfred Cortot in Paris, she trailed Rachmaninoff over the world, getting in lessons when she could.

She made her Athens debut, as noted, in 1935, performing the brilliant Tschaikowsky B-flat Concerto with Mitropoulos and the Athens Symphony. Two years later she made her Paris debut in the Salle Pleyel, which was followed by a concert with the Paris Symphony. That, in turn, was followed by concerts in Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria and Egypt. Her projected third Italian tour was halted by that ill-starred invasion of Greece in 1940. Mme.

Bachauer returned to Greece but there was little time for concertizing there, either, for the Germans accomplished what the Italians could not and swept down the peninsula into Athens. She and her husband fled to Alexandria. where she spent the remainder of the war giving more than 600 concerts for the Allied armed forces. THE WAR OVER, Mme. Bachauer returned to Greece and spent a hectic year giving concerts for various relief and reconstruction organizations, then made her tremendously successful debut in England in 1946.

There her star still shines brightest, and she is a frequent guest soloist with the London Philharmonic, the New London Orchestra. the BBC Orchestra and other symphonies. Immediately after her New York debut, Mitropoulos, who meanwhile had come to head the New York Philharmor.ic-Symphony by way of the Minneapolis orchestra, engaged her as guest soloist with his or-j chestra last year. She could have remained here hut she returned immediately to England, though touring is con- siderably more difficult there. In the United States, where dis- stances are vast, mastery of one or two concertos is enough for a season.

Not so in England, where music lovers can and often do travel to nearby cities to hear favorite artists again and again. It is a flattering condition, of course, but for her it meant playing II different concertos in six weeks. That prodigious feat was matched in this country, in North Brevard Musical Festival, last August. In one evening, she played the Bach Minor, the Mozart and the pee- thoven Third concertos for an auditorium which was filled despite a heavy rain shortly before the concert. The next night, she followed with the second conccrtos Of Brahms and Rachmaninoff, and at the end of the concert the audience, it is reported, was on its feet applauding and cheering.

HER CONCERT here Thursday night, it goes without say ng, will not be that heavy, though it is one clearly designed to display her virtuosity in no unmistaken fashion. I -pu All the major periods will be rep- rnS co-stars Gregory Peck, Su- either. The centerpiece will be thP san Ava Gardner and Hildegarde Neff, continues at the Waco Theatre until Wednesday. On that day it is to be replanted by in which Tyrone Power dons the crimson of the Waco Hall Dec. 22 and 23.

That's Miss Franklin on the right, too, as Wacocns will see her as the altogether lovable if venal Tonkinese seller of shrunken heads. role of Bloody Mary. It is one of the most important roles of and it is also one of the most dramatic. Bloody Mary is the Tonkinese mother of Liat whcm she tries to marry off to Lt. Joseph Cable, an American Marine.

Miss Franklin is the first one in the theatre before a performance. It takes hours to apply her makeup. She first applies the stain that covers much of her body, and a good half hour for this to dry. Then she starts on the face make- i up and that takes another half an hour. After that comes the hair, again another half hour.

By arriving at the theatre at 7 p. it is now 8:30. If Miss first en- trance came when the curtain goes up. she would have to be at the 1 theatre at 6:30, but as it is, she does not appear until after the the ticket prices minutes. It is then that the Open Early For Mondav Show The Baylor Theatre Is presenting a Student Special Monday night in the form of a 6 p.

m. production of Another special feature of the early Monday night show is all seats are unreserved and tick ets are priced at $.60 and $.45. Monday night will be the last presentation of delightful satire, The theatre will continue this special early curtain feature throughout the Curtain-Time Carousel of plays. Monday and Tuesday nights will be 6 p. m.

curtain nights during the run of the shows to follow, and the low-priced ticket policy will be continued on these nights. is the entertaining story of a phonetics teacher who sets out to make a middle-class lady out of a common flower girl in the space of six months, all through the use of standard speech. Ralph Hester and Shirley Hughes play the teacher and the flower girl, and Willie Reader, Alvin Massey, Joan Willard and Doris Crabtree fill out the cast. Tickets for the closing night production may be purchased at the theatre box office any time during the day and up until curtain time. last part of her make-up goes on.

This is the heavy harness, like a football player wears, that goes over her head and fastens in the back, to give her the elderly kinese appearance. This is very heavy and weighs about 30 pounds. All through the first act she keeps it on. It is removed at intermission time and replaced for the second act. The show, which stars Janet Blair as Nellie Forbush and Webb Tilton as Emile deBecque the French planter, is being sponsored in Waco by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

FREE MATINEE 4 to 3 1 CLUB DANCE TONIGHT CAREY JONES and MEXIA MCSIC MAKERS From Mexia, Te PHONE 3-93 On (JSroacli way Soloists For At BU Named The Baylor School of Music, as it has done for the past 20 years under the direction of Prof. Robert Hopkins, will offer oratorio, in Waco Hall at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday. Soloists will be Dorothy Wilbanks Crozier, Mrs.

Virginia Lawrence, Jane Long and Marie Jones, sopranos; Mary Ellen Newport and Joyce Tumblin, contraltos; Howard Dill of the music faculty at Texas Christian University, guest tenor, and Thomas Stewart, bass-baritone. The Oratorio Chorus and a select group from the Baylor Symphony Orchestra will be utilized, as will the organ with Joseph Schreiber fJirtilClHV NEW YORK, Dec. of last ambitious efforts, the N. Richard Nash play, the closed last Saturday night after five performances. Next week's premieres will be three or two, depending upon what is done about the on-and-off musical, starring Bette Davis.

Her throat condition has held up the proceedings. It may or may not open Monday, which originally was the day when the critics were going to be let in after a number of previews, all of which had to be cancelled. On Wednesday. Albert Selden will present Grey-eyed by John H. Hess at the Martin Beck Theatre.

On Thursday, Kermit Bloomgarden will offer a revival of Lillian Children's at the Coronet with Patricia Neal, Kim Hunter and Iris Mann in the leading roles. DANCE TONIGHT COUNTY LINE INN 14 miles on the Corsicana Hwy. Music By The Lone Star Playboys Playing Thurs. and Sun. Nites DANCE NEW BRASS RAIL MrGREGOR HIGHWAY Saturday and Sunday Nighta FREE MATINEE SUNDAY Music By DOODLE OWENS and TEXAS RAMBLERS Pioneer Drive-In TERRACE CLUB Free Matinee LONE STAR PLAYBOYS NIGHT JERRY DYKES And His Western Ramblers PHONE 5-9895 SOLOISTS for the Baylor School of Music's annual presentation of Handel's "The listen to some suggestions from the score by Prof.

Robert Hopkins, director. Left to right, they are Mary Ellen Newport, contralto; Thomas Stewart, bass-baritone, and Mrs. Virginia Lawrence, soprano. The oratorio will be given Tuesday night in Waco Hall. (Windy Drum Photo).

at the console. The lengthy work will not be given in its entirety but the program calls for most of Part the Prophesy of coming and passion; and some of the more familiar excerpts from Parts II and III, the fulfillment of the prophesy. Among the better known selections for solosists and chorus are Greatly, Daughter of Unto Us a Child Is Up Your Heads. Ye the Lamb of He Has Borne Our With His Stripes We Are By Man Came Is the Trumpet Shall with Stewart and Elio Agresta. cornetist, and concluding with the The oratorio is presented annually without charge to the public.

The Waco Drive-In Theatre celebrated its seventh birthday Saturday. The first such theatre in Waco and Central Texas was opened by the Lone Star Theatres. of which E. L. Pack is president and Doyle Garrett secretary-treasurer, on Dec.

13, 1945. At that time, the latest type in- car speakers and the best available outdoor screen were installed and have been maintained. The theatre, located on the Temple highway but out of congested traffic, was the first drive-in to offer double features daily with the exception of Saturday, when three features are shown, and on Wednesdays it operates on a policy in which all who can be loaded into one automobile are admitted for one dollar. The Waco Drive-In is managed by C. W.

Davis, who last night celebrated the anniversary with three feature pictures and souvenirs for children of his patrons. ic uuB MONDAY, DEC. 15TH From Louisiana Hayride Three Deeea Recording Stan Two Great Goldie Hill Tommy Hill Cknrlia A IM ANN BLYTH and Palmer Lee in a happy, romantic moment from "Sally and Saint which starts Tuesday at the 25th Street Theatre. Screen Previews ALASTAIR SIM meets an interesting character in this scene from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas showing at the Joy Drive-In with "One Foot in Heaven." elaborated version of Hems of The centerpiece will be the taxing Chopin Sonata in Minor, Opus 58. Mme.

Bachauer will begin the festivities with the Tausig arrangement of J. S. massive Toccata and Fugue in Minor, better create the story idea, and he turned I known through Leopold Police t0 ar Hie trt tha i transrrintinn fnt anA I Hersualle al over his $50,000 to the council. Samuel Raphaelson. another noted playwright, wrote the screen play.

Briefly, the story concerns a young man who comes to Broadway with the idea of becoming a dramatist and a young woman who is determined to succeed as a Broadway actress. These roles are played by a couple of virtual unknowns, Tom Morton and Mary Murphy, who were found, of course, in Hollywood. Wacoans Cast In Houston Comedv transcription foi orchestra, and i ninnc will continue with melodic Major Sonata, K. 288. After the Chopin number and the intermission, the program calls for three intermeiri by Brahms, each demanding a lucid technique, with much color and poetic sensitivity.

To be heard will be No. 2 and No. 1, in that order, from Opus 117, and No. 3 from Opus 119. They will be followed by the Three Fantastic Da of Dimitri Shostakovich and Isaac descriptive, rhythmic Navarra.

play, based on a theft trial which was the sensation of London in the early 1900s, Winslow opens Monday at the Coronet, with Robert Donat as the barrister who battles to prove the innocense of young Neil North, who has been expelled from the Naval College accused of stealing a postal note. Sir Cedric Hardwicke is the lad's father and Margaret Leighton the older sister. The play 'Merry Is Booked at Melrose Franz famous musical romance, Merry is brought to the screen today in a vibrant and opulent production, starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas in its haunting snngs, sumptuous settings and costumes, its brilliant staging of the memorable Widow and other lavish production numbers. was staged by the Waco Civic The- Dollar Started Village atre several seasons back. G.

C. Q. -----------------------------CENTRALIA, 111. Little 38 Stiekv Business a site Jacob Maeys LOUISVILLE -UP- It was the bought for one dollar in ob- Cree Into return to their reservation. Coincidental with his mission I he is to obtain the release of two Americans (Penny Edwards and Robert Horton) whom the Crees are holding as hostages, a project which seems more impossible when Horton k.Us the chief's brother while trying to flee the camp.

I I telephone pole near here had 100 fv Southern is headed by The Orpheum will continue to pounds of honey aboard Jacob's son. Mayor Ed Maeys. Lawless with Rock Hudson as the Texas outlaw jJohn Wesley Hardin, until day. Then comes the swashbuckling Gdden based on the Frank Yetby novel, in which est Record Made For Hi-Fi Fanatics NEW YORK, Dec. A test record which will enable high fidelity record enthusiasts to adjust their phonographs so that they can take the fullest advantage of Orthophonic has been made available on both 45 and 33 1-3 rpr.i, RCA Victor has announced.

sweetest accident this side of Guy Lombardo. The truck that hit a serves its year. The 100th anniversary this village in the hills of The Waco Civic Music Associa- Ct tion. which is sponsoring Mme. Ba- Hayden rescues Rhonda chauer's appearance as the second from the Spanish only to feature of its concert series is a learn- after she escaped him.

Miss Carnn daughter of smooth-functioning organization of that she is the notorious pirate. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Dunne, 2923 some 2,000 members, and one There is more to-do, also, Ethel Avenue, and Miss Sally Wil- SOn for its continued operation with the Sranish governor and his son, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. without undue friction is its set of Helena Carter, ueorge ilson, 2911 Homan, rules which must be enforced. No Opening at the Orpheum Friday aco, played the roles of Maria one may be admitted to the con- will be the Brian Donlevy-Rod Cam- and maid respectively, in the popu- cert without his membership card, Western. the Man lar comedy for which is transferable. Seating at which has the Luke Short given by the Dramatic Club of the Waco Hall, where all concerts are novel as its basis, concerning the! I niversity of St.

Houston, held, is on a first-come, first-served relentless scramble for rich cattle Thursday and Friday nights. basis, with no reservations. Con- grazing lands precipitated by the The Dramatic Club, newly certs begin, almost without excep- death of a wealthy land baron. On formed, chose this five-act classic tion, promptly at 8:15, and no one one are Eila Raines and her comedy by Richard Sheridan as its is admitted during numbers. Onlv fiance-fore man Forrest Tucker; on first production.

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