Daily News from Los Angeles, California • 11

iS Data I RP ot; O' Mildred Moptofii Prams-Muuc Editor 'i -V- 'j '') 'I The crafty scheme of a greedy old man to'raarfy'hlf wiTrdlor'her' mb ii mJ 8ti a MlAni msmawts moments money has made for some of the operatic atagea funniest since Eton Pasquale was produced. Now, Donizettis melodious, farce has been chosen to present the vis ta" for the Bowl last year. Performances will he July 7, 8 and could bo funnyr The solemn J. 8. Bach may have a wary eye on heaven but be kept both feet on the ground, and he wasnt mm Sr I USd opera workshop', singers in their third footllght offering under the direction of deportment head Carl Ebert Three performances will be given in Bovard auditorium, next Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, with Wolfgang Martin conducting the singers and orchestra." like Eberts two previous SC productions, Don Pasquale" will be sung in-English.

Ebert, who came to America last year to head the SC workshop, has staged Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos and Brittens Albert Herring during the past two semesters. Following his work on the- current production, he will leave for England and his annual summer chores as artistic director of the Glyndeboume Opera. Pilgrimage play opens F6r the 23rd yearth Pilgrimage Play will relate, the- life of Jesua of original hillside theater in Cahuengm pass, starting a limited run June 14. The founded in 1920 by the late Christine Wetherill Stevenson. is tha only production of its kind that deals in dramatic with the entire span of Jesus life from the manger to the Ascension.

Production of the play will be in the hands of the Hollywood Bowl Theater association, an affiliate of the parent Bowl association. Bowl ballot Part of this summers; Hollywood Bowl season will be devoted to six. performances by the 'Ballet Russe de Monts Carlo, beginning July 20. Alexandra Danilova, Franklin, Ruth ana Boris and Leon Danilian again head the 'Company, which will be making Its fifth pU-grimage to the Bowl. Gounods Faust has now been announced as the seasons curtain raiser instead of the originally dated La Boheme.

Two local youngsters who have catapulted to vocal fame nationally will return for roles. These are UCLA basso Jerome Hines and Compton soprano Nadine Conner, Met affiliates. Met tenor Richard Tucker will sing the title role. Artur Rodzinskl will conduct. Production will be by James A Doolittle, who presented Tra 11.

Bach kept also Java. will, Ralph a pany young event the sic, of Ibsen first tors night been by. by be above having a little fun. with the stern contrapuntal medium -in which he worked. of'his lighter impulses want into the humorous- -Cantata, -which eals with a domestic, squabble over the perils Staged by Henry Reese and directed by- Roger- Wagner, this highlight tonights all-Bach concert, given in Hollywood High school auditorium by the city's combined youth choruses and Concert' Chorale.

Marni Robert Sands and Isbell wiU.be soloists, and' -chamber orchestra will accom-. the Some 600 singers, representing .19 city-sponsored youth choruses, win. participate in the culminating of the city's observance of National Music week. Musically, it marks tha most ambitious program yet given by city choral groups in the five-year history of the Bureau of Mu-' a division of the Department Municipal Art: at 0ai Prominent bars of. the Southland's resident colony el theapians will be seen In Hendrick Ibsen's A Dolls House, In the public production by 18 Ac-, scheduled for.

the second of the. 1950 OJai Festivals, Saturday, May 27. This win be the first time straight dramatic production has. presented on the annua Oja) Festival aeries, which begins Friday evening; May 26, and closes Tuesday afternoon. May 30.

The role of Nora will be taken Ruth Coveil, that of Helmer Ralph Freud. Charles Lane will Dr, Rank, and Ann Tyrrell, Christine. ITS ON ITS WAY! That tremendous, super colossal, amazing, unbeatable record -breaker, the show everyone wants tickets for, none ether than "South coming May 22 to the Philharmonic auditorium. This is production shot of principals, chorus in fetion. Earl Wilson Tea with a Maharajah! pictured it ahead of time there'd be turbana, -no doubt steaming samovara and a harem I hoped.

Some shucks for a guy who slopped pigs in Ohio," bragged to the Beautiful Wife before CharlCstoned off to keep the date. But, wayll, it was different. His i n.u.k.HurfM. that: Pect Jo rl7 Highness, the Maharajah of Jaipur, friendly! and In his late 80s, wearing a' 'gray suit and smart tan loaf erhf flourished a Room Service teapot in his paddy, in his New Hampshire House suite, and said: How'd yonMMMfp like 'it? Weak strong? VO v.vai IFilm review 'JSZjzjl 1 seat reissued yesterday at tha Laurel theater hi double MU with "BiAevoalke of New York." Reprinted in part from Febf, 1948 editions.) Lifeboat already has becoms a major issue, with opposing voices raised as loud as if were, a matter of foreign policy. Directors of the film admit the brilliance of the handling, but view with alum what they insist are subtle pro-Nazi Admirers of the film, a group die a slow, death without hope of within our own family, hs said.

His own Maharanee, Aysha, is a genuine beauty, who 'makes the El Morocco set stare. And shes his ONLY wife. A Hindu can- marry' as many times as he likes, but one doesnt do those His Highness said. We are more modern. About that 8500,000,000 fortune? Legends, he said.

Mostly art treasures and heirlooms he would not be expected to sen if he wanted to. And that fabulous palace fits not a palace, where one would live. five in another palace outside the city, smaller and absolutely modernised as modern an American apartment house. Blow of blows, the Maharajah works; he governs 18 states, goes to a desk and is wrestling now in his land with typically American farm problem: How to get more water. -One of his ancestors, going to England a century ago, was so nationalistic he took a plot of Indian soli to sit on while there.

But the Maharajah flew here in an American plane. Howd you get about at home? I asked, hoping it would be a royal coach, at least. Why, said His Highness, and there was pride in his royal voice, I have a very nice Cadillac. uirM drive it myself. Weak Weak? His American ciga-e almost fell out of his mouth.

Imagine an American drinking anything weak. Hes a demo-sratic-type fellah, who rides cabs, sot limousines; has nd bodyguards, is a 9-goal polo player (not 9-gal polo player, as one paper once said), goes hatless, enjoys Tony Martin's singing and companionship, and often says, Dont call me Your My names JaL Hed come from. India where he has a 850.000,000 palace with hundreds of windows gosh, must be draughty! to see American doctors. Im going Into Harkness Pavilion for an overhaul, he said. I cracked one ankle playing polo In '37 the other one in an airplane accident last year.

Those American- doctors superior, arent they? like everything American. (It was even an American plane he crashed in; well forget that.) That brought up another great American export His1 brother-in-law, the'Mahara-JL'Th of-Cboch-Behar, known in Cafe Tfeocictv as Coochie Boy, is ru-mored marrying starlet. Nancy Valentine of Hollywood. 1 His Highness sort of doubted rescue. -With such overwhelming -odds against them, the Americans decide in favor of capture, a decision which shocks the excitable opposition, the decision to surrender on Batman was prompted by similar reasoning.

The sure hand of director Alfred Hitchcock (notable particularly in the undercurrent of background conversations) has managed to keep a surprisingly light touch in the midst of dramatic excitement and pathos. This is accomplished chiefly, by the playing of Tallulah Bankhead as the correspondent, an agree- able opportunist with low morels and a humorous tongue. Probably the best characterization of them an is turned in by William Bendix as the wounded man, though ang the performances are first rate. Whether you regard Lifeboat as an allegory of melodrama, tho new Alfred Hitchcock production is a fine Job of movie making, effectively photographed by Glen MscWlUisms. Jo Swerling wrote the screenplay from tho' John Steinbeck novel.

i Virginia Wright. to which I belong, applaud its realistic portraits of Americans, and fall to see anything ominous in the presentation of a Nazi, (the only one in the lifeboat, fortified by food and water, and equipped with a compass) who 'can row when the others have no strength for it, and who knows where he Is going. A U-boat has torpedoed the ship, and into the lifeboat, along with other survivors from the sea, climbs the U-boat captain, whose ship also has been sunk in the battle, The survivors from the merchant ship are a varied lot a woman correspondent, an injured a nurse, a shellshocked mother, an oiler, a deckhand, a Negro steward and a millionaire. In a storm the. mast, the rudder sad all the provisions are washed The boat, the Nasi tells them, has been blown 'off Its course.

There Is no possibility of reaching Bermuda with only a pair of oars. Tho occupants have their choice of letting him try to reach a Nazi supply ship, which is somewhere In the vicinity, or MARY LOU BENNETT charms customers Drunkard," in record run at tho Theater Mart. JEANNE is strong contender for "Anatomy Award" contest, holding forth at the Burbank. GOOD RUMOR MAN: George Jessel's. lawyers warned networks ndt to use his name after a Milton Berle gag about Georgie and young, girls.

Milton apologized, George forgave him but networks meanwhile warned artists not. to mention him French honey Denise Dm reel tried on an engagement ring backstage at tha Strand from: Peter Crosby. Js a -V rj -v. 1 vv 'V. -i '--r 1 1 A-V -r.

:1 MAURICE SCHWARTZ portrayq "Horschel tho Jostor" hi Yiddish CARMEN DE IAVAUADE d.n, AIU Jg 135:3 7 IT liTtu rmkcKon pUn.J by YUJiU. DICK LANNOM and Mary Grace Brady are among many young actors who porform in "Tho Clown Who Ran Away," matinao today andvery Saturday, 2:30 p. Young Actors Co I74S N. La Brea ii, Art Co. is tha prophat In "Salome, modern ballet by Lester Horton, Friday 1 and Saturday eves, at Dane theater under "Chorao-1950" banner.

DAILY KEYS, LOS AH GELES SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950 1 1 MMhetbMiMW rrratm.