Omaha World-Herald from Omaha, Nebraska • 64

Sunday World Herald Omaha Nov 7 1549 Movies Drama Music Barrymore I Stage and Screen A Little of Everything Walks Again and stu 3 The Marx Brothers take over the a MS ladv president of the United States if MGM ever signs a leading man (he IT a Crooked at for them you wouldn't wonde recital No More Octopus 0 el wont years career Geo Glenn intention of visiting former place of residence It says Barry to Kellom School and ago is currently on the as a comic grafter of Omaha While attending the university she engaged in radio work at Oklahoma City Director Kendrick Wilson has issued a warning that no one will be seated during the first act after or too long a time chamber music has broadly speaking been in the dog house In the last score of years thanks to indomitable crusaders both pro of his followers wno loves white master exposes enough of the plot to frustrate it Written acted and presented with sincerity "Set My People still lacks the excitement which might have made it a sus tained and stimulating play It sags too often as drama although its acting is admirable particular ly in the hands of Canada Lee Juano Hernandez Mildred Smith and Leigh Whipper But its mood is dark and the brilliant writing necessary to turn such a play into an angry exposition never quite materializes all action in at the Orpheum as you've probably guessed by looking at Joan Leslie and James Craig It look a long time and a lot of people and animals but jus tice finally triumphs in this color record of the plains Diet Does It Actor Admits in about to Only 4 Have So ar Beaten It has done right well on the screen playing Nazis trayai of a witfi the Marx Brothers One of the Next with Dane Clark Also With subjected to one of Beethoven's) last string or one by 31ilhaud That was beginning at the wrong end of the chamber music spectrum Naturally he was swamped And his unflinching verdict on all chamber music has been Another may go all out for fire eating virtuoso pianist or violin ists Or coloratura sopranos spar ring with a flutist up in the region avaW hirrh lr onorn VI iUeil fiULX 1 Iff AJ 'X with its huge companies its action jand trappings of scenery and cos ur orenestras wun tneir tially toured every corner of this country A New York engagement was included in that trans contin ental trek and long engagements in Chicago Boston and Philadel phia Sigmund Romberg himself con siders the score of Desert one of his finest Desert will play at Agnes a Ph Hollywood Cal Agnes Moor head is the only Hollywood actress with a PhD in literature ilmed in Jamaica Hollywood Cal will be filmed in Jamaica ear infection al io special trouble rom now on I and' opera in a session new high for informality Allan Jones their singing entry proposes a toast which Sig Rumann impresario doesn't relish but which is nevertheless enjoyed by (left to right) Harpo Chico and Groucho The scene: "A Night at the Opera" at the State Back Nov 24 In Demand Paul Douglas who pet a job here until after his success in "Born on Broad 1 way did such a good job in that Albert Lewis Twcnti i eth Century producer wants to star him in New York in Court a play by Bill Rankin It's a post war Army tale Dolly Dodd lovely daughter of the Rev Dodd who at most of our screen marriages joined Miriam Hopkins in Birthday" I hear Miriam is super in the play The Jerry Walds won't Dannv Kaye in London as Somebody is qomq to get hurt in the Brandeis Wednesday Expecting trouble Dennis Louise Albritton and Louis Hayward have acquired a small arsenal And if you knew who is waiting way it holds no mysteries needs no password for enjoyment 5k At risk of over simplification chamber music might be defined as instrumental ensemble music in which there is but one player to a part While the instrumental corrh bination is highly variable the most common and perhaps most glorious is the string quartet The term chamber music is a throw back to the times of Mozartand Haydn When such music "was designed for performance in the salons or large chambers in the palaces of royal patrons Its music is generally the most direct of appeal most intimate of all musical categories It holds no complicated nlot does not try to tell a story It merelv presents itself and requires no code nor key to reveal its beauties It is music that features no in dividual player All are equal in the eyes of the composer No one lectures musically speaking to the others It is like a serious or sparkling conversation between players bandying statements questions and replies Every composer worthy of the name has written glorious cham ber music In some cases their greatest work has been for such) combinations or it is at once every composer's greatest chai lenge and if successful his great est triumph Notable chamber music organi zations in this country can prob ably be counted on two hands But devotees are increasing in By Jake Rachman What to See and What to Look orward To Saxon with Robert Montgomery Audrey Totter John Payne Susan Hayward ine piece of character work by Montgomery as an egocentric theatrical producer Also Live with John Emery and Hillary Brooke ar better than usual second feature No following attraction named Orpheum with Joan Leslie James Craig and Jack Oakie Interesting spectacle western with rodeo gunplay and beautiful scenery in color "Shed No Tears" with Wallace Hord and June Vincent Cheating a life insurance com pany easy riday red Waring show on stage Satur day with DennisO'Keefe Affairs of Bel Ami" Paramount "Apartment for with Jeanne Crain William Holden Edmund and Gene Lockhart A veteran and his family finally find a living place with an old professor Their coming gives him a new outlook on life and his suicide is cancelled Also March of Time's "The Case of Mrs a elaboration of the operation of a modern hospital Thursday with Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres Brandeis "Station with Dick Powell and Jane Greer An army intelligence man runs down the murderers of two soldiers Also Surrender Dear" with Gloria Jean: and David Street Wednesday Walk a Crooked Mile" with Dennis Louis Hayward and Izntisc Albritton Also Leads the with Ted Donaldson and John Litel State "San with Clark Gable Jeanette Mac Donald Spencer Tracy and Jack Holt Greatest of quake scenes Also in ant at tne unera funniest of the Marx films Gail Russell and Ethel Barrymore with Joe Brown finally got a script that Harry Cohn Marshall head man ord and Ida Lupino liked when George smarted di recting he realized that producer Sylvan Simon wanted to direct as) well as produce George never one to stand in wayi stepped aside with Harry blessing i Joslyn Hall Omaha do with the concert at the Or Omaha Theater on Wednes pheum and is staged privately iday November 24 one night only Broadway Now in 5th Year join had planned in New York trying to whip up a musical with John Wayne maintains do no more fights with an octopus! even of tne studio variety xn of the Red Witch" under water sequences for weeks left him with a though he had with the oct onus Tie says stick to horses let Johnny Weismuller do Real at Playhouse Another Omahan Makes the Grade Too or a boy from the tall corn country Actor Henry Rowland His latest nor German villian is in Universal international spy drama starring Dick Dowell Marta loren and Vincent Price Rowland was born in Omaha where as a boy he starred in rodeos He went to Europe when 7 to study returning to Omaha three years later rom this experience he brought back a German accent which he can now assume with the great est of ease for dramatic purposes In a war time Army training film titled sisting Enemy he enacted a Ger man sergeant with such skill that he won critical praise from the brass hats He plays an associate of Martin Bormann Nazi war criminal in Stenhen Henry Rowland McNally enacts Borman still the object of an in tense search by Allied intelligence forces Rowland was also a swastika official in the of and Omaha's Benny Baker on Best Job Moon faced Benny Baker who peddled papers on Omaha streets 20 best Hollywood assignment of his in Danny Kayes Happy limes at Warner Brothers Studios Kay said that he considers comedian Baker a good luck charm Benny played opposite Danny in the latter's first Broadway hit ace When Kaye came to Hollywood Baker appeared importantly in Danny tirst iilm Superstitious Benny Dannv called him play in the golden haired first film under his new Warner contract Baker plays a phony school commissioner on a town coun cil (circa 1S15) to which Kaye comes impersonating a Govern ment inspector A stubborn Hollywood legend concerns a chances ol be coming a star if she can only kiss Benny Baker on a stage His first stage kiss was for a voting George famous Rochester stock company Her name was Bette Davis He kissed Patricia Neal on Broadway in Than and Betty Garett currently being peppgd for star dom was on the receiving end of a Baker smack in a show called Later however Betty married a more romantic young fellow named Larry Parks And Patricia Neal for that matter ended up as Gary leading lady in ountainhead" Baker who started his theatrical career as a candy butcher in a Rochester theater said that the passing of the traditional hawker of sweets in the aisle of houses was a blow to the comedian in embryo was great said Benny audience reaction But hopeful funny men arc now being supplanted by gorgeous cuties at the pop corn stands in the Waring Show Has Variety Mrs Irene Henry Has Leading Roleu? The mother of two preschool age children Mrs Irene Henry no doubt has a special interest in bank accounts But at the present time her ma jor interest in bank accounts is Bank It was from this book by Kathryn orbes that John Van Druten took his play Remember A University of Oklahoma Airs Henry When husband and wife agree they try a swim in and John Payne in this scene from The Omaha are a little aloof from each other their reconciliation attempt is still a little Mrs Irene Henry in terested in bank accounts World Herald photo ctallor dl'SUYlS ICS fTTHflUHtP vuiv i cixnai tractions are Willie be Mama in the Community Nancy Walker and Carole Bruce new production from Arthur Lesser who chap 1 November 9 to 25 ormerly a eroned Maurice Chevalier in teacher at Norman recent American concert tour isiOkla Mrs Henry has been each producer ing radio acting in the School of Harrv Clark one of the ex IjAdult Education at the University comic stars of Ale Mister and Jack Diamond who played the amusing bartender in have joined the new Cole Porter musical Me And folks who've heard Hollywood Lionef Barry more spent the past 12 years in a wheelchair can walk again And ever since the story got out Jie growled he had a peace calls letters he grumbled "Dadgumit why they leave a man Everybody wants to know how he did it Or congratulate him for doing it Or ask him to put on a benefit performance how he does it Diet Did more "I just went on a diet Lost 30 pounds Gonna lose 20 more" When he gets his boyish figure back he added the going to rig him up a leather girdle And if he can just get up enough gump tion to wear the thing be able to hock that chrome plated wheelchair lived in so long Right now the 70 year oId ac tor's playing his role in Twentieth Century to the Sea in in the wheelchair But between scenes he hobbles around on crutches getting into practice for his walking debut 10 Years in Chair or 10 years done all his acting on wheels And kept up with the best of too There were times he says when it wasn't too hard to be a grumpy old man who hollered at people Everybody Says Barrymore with a wag of his white mane thinks he was crippled up with arthritis truth to it" he harrumphed "I fell off a blankety blank horse bck in 1915 and broke my left leg After that I always limped a little in 1936 I was doing a scene with Jean Harlow I tripped over a cable and fractured the other side of me my right hip It heal Awaits Not long after he said walking became almost too painful to bear Crutches helped a little but not for long when he took to his wheelchair Arthritis came along later But that won't keep him off his feet he says once he gets that fancy corset Crosby Returns to Prepare for New ilm Hollywood Cal Bing Crosby checkcd in at Paramount recently to start preparations for early start of his next starring picture the Morning" Moscow Theater Marks 50th Year Moscow CP) The Soviet Union's most famous theater is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary The Moscow Art Theater which probably has had a greater influ ence on modern drama than any other theatrical organization was founded by Konstantine Stanislav sky and I Nemirovich Dan chenko These two talented theatrical di rectors had assembled a group of young actors and actresses who were inspired by Stanislavsky's methods and theories They in eluded such figures of the Russian stage as I Moskvin Vasilli Ivanovich Kachalov Knipper Chekhova and many others The importance of the Art The ater however never has been the or of its troupe The Art Theater actors and actresses who became famous because they were associated with the Art Theater The Art Theater became important as an organiza tion not as a collection of well known individuals The Art Theater put on its first professional play October 27 1838 Benny Baker anu Danny Kaye ingenue in That in Discuss Plans for Story of Jet Pilots Hollywood Cal Robert lows producer assigned to "Wings of the big scale film about) adventures of jet pilots returned recently from Washington where Things look peaceful enough right at this moment In this scene he conferred with government and from of at the Town but Just wait until the film officials cn plans for the runs a few feet further Astrid Allwyn and Bruce Cabot really run production into some exciting experience Just a little of the great amount of color in Desert Also some of the princi pals Left to right there are Iris Whitney as Azuai and Don Kent as Capt Paul ontaine of the rench Army Center panel shows Edward Roecker young baritone who sings the leading role of the Red Shadow at right is the comedy team of Dorothy Dare as Susan and Jack Good as Benjamin Kidd ocean Susan Hayward Saxon at the Just out of the water "all An old man finds life is worth living after all Edmund Gwenn flanked by Jeanne Cram and William Holden in "Apartment for Peggy" at the Paramount discovers that suicide is foolish and unnecessary So he lives happily ever after Rewrite Show Mike show starnnc Bob by Clark will tret a rewrite job before it reaches New York Gloria Swanson flew to Paris for a week end and saw more people! from Hollywood than she ordmar 1 ily does in New York She spent) an afternoon at the races visited i Xranchot Tone and Charles Laugh 1 ton and renewed friendships she! "made there while she was doing Sans Gene" My that takes me back I It took Gloria back too She returned from that assignment married to a title the first any actress had copped at that time Ute Bill beauti ful Encino home is for sale License Shows Actor Lived at Alcatraz Hollywood Cal CP) Character Actor Will Wright thinks it's fun to show fellow players his mar riage license The document gives his residence as Alcatraz happened this way says Wright: As a private first class he) was stationed on the island which! harbors the famous prison Wright) believes the license is the only) one of its kind I The marriage took place in San) rancisco November 3 1917' Wright star of the radio show! fe'N: Amazing Mr and now) working in the picture says he and his wife will observe their thirty first anniversary in San rancisco but they have no a New York background for Joan Crawford Jerry wants Errol) lynn for Galahad" which) will be made in England and I hear Errol would like to do it Marshall Side of Sharp Tiff By Hedda Hopper Hollywood I like to give By Jack New York t) Having passed its fourth birthday earlier this week Brock Pemberton's produc tion of now is the fifth longest running play in American tne a er nisiory I "TVx Ibacco Irish Rose" and have surpassed it As of its fourth birthday per formance Haney had run 16SS i performances on Broadway Two members of the cast i vey" himself and Miss rederica Going haven't missed a perform ance Haney is the invisibile giant white rabbit playmate of the bibulous central visible character the present star in the latter role being Joe Brown Several Stars Haney has had seven actors as i co stars rank ay originated the role of Elwood Dowd and played 1351 performances in New York before heading for the road and higher ossesJBcrt Wheeler played 32 times James Stewart SS James Dunn did 10S Jack Buchanan 36 Brown addition to 73 Broad way performances previously por trayed the role SSO times on the road has won many awards notably the 1944 Pulitzer prize for drama Movie rights were leased to Universal Interna tional for one million dollars The picture will not be released before 1950 A London stage version will begin soon with Sid ield starred Broadway Notes Hank Ladd recently of in the has signed as co star of a new revue ifth in Hollywood Hollywood Cal P) ashion Designer Edith Head has com bined anatomical parts of nine film actresses to form the perfect dummy This is a literal dummy one used for fashion scenes in "Bitter A perfectionist Miss Head had to maKe it tne nest Choosing from the stars she has designed for she picked this list (reading up to down or vice versa according to taste) Diana Lynn 13 inches Shoulders Barbara Stanwyck Bust Olivia Dehavilland 3 inches Waist Loretta Young 24 inches Hips Liz a be th Scott 36 inches Arms Hedy Lamarr Hands Veronica Lake Legs Marlene Dietrich of course eet Mona reeman By Martin Bush numbers Chamber music is emerg ing from the dog house Music Calendar Today 3:30 Joslyn Mem orial Lecture Hall Piano recital by Ward Lindley Jr Today 4:30 Joslyn Mem orial Concert Hall Organ recital Hollywood I like to give both! Bides of a story George Marshall's! version of his tiff at Columbia isi a little different from tbn nnp 1 1 got from the stu 1 Hi i dio George says AlJ iA he walk off the score say its best intthe pay begins The Yurt ain will a decade consider gO up on each performance ably rewritten by its co authors at 8:30 ml The plav Edna erber and Geprge Kauf iis in two act? tlc first one hour man will open at the Lyceum No an(j 20 minutes long Prime Need Is Many Talents The prime need of all of red shows is variety It is a prerequisite for his current Pen offering which plays) Looking at Lowdown on Studio Clash decided to paint on his famous false eyeglasses Alike now assures me it will be a big hit when it ar rives Book of the show was Todd's original idea written by William1 Roos Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson two talented Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths: provided the score Hermes Pani is dance director and costumes are by Oleg Cassini Supporting Clark is Irene Rich playing the first lady president sand Kathryn Lee Bill Callahan Loti Barto and Hobart Cavanaugh My People A new play based on an 1822 slave revolt in Charleston opened at the Hudson Theatre It is "Set My People by Heyward produced by the Theatre Guild directed by Martin Ritt and designed by Ralph Alswang Briefly it's about a slave named Denmark Vesey child of an Af irican prince stolen by slave trad ers and brought to America Here I he manages to effect his freedom and devotes his future to leading1 his fellow slaves to liberty His! llengthy plan collapses when onelgQ or 110 players to make up the Jof his followers who loves orchestral divisions of instru ments Before hearing a note of cham ber music he is let down at the sight of but two three four or five players coming on the stage All of which if he truly likes mu sic is a shame The rewards in hearing beauti fully played chamber music? or one thine if the listener be: willing to meet the music by Harlin Abel baritone in to its charm But it is still far from the po sition of exacting widely popular appeal Search for reasons for this would probably reveal several angles Anything beyond the ken of most of us elicits the charge Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth high hat Italian music by Rose Prejudices die hard Some'mary Howell cellist and Gladys person at his first hearing of Hamstreet May pianist Program chamber music may have been by Vivaldi Pergolesi rescobaldi Corelli Tartim Boccherini and Sammartini 5k Thursday 8:00 Memorial Concert Music Teachers Association pre 1 sents Lois and Guy Maier in an evening of music for two pianos Program includes tran scription of Bach's organ fugue in minor an Allegro Molto by Mo zart variations TA 1 5 Li 4 La cxxiu a uxvmlj ui i yaiiuc lunuiuis i by Bizet bimmons Benjamin Mil haud Stoye and Strauss Chasins 5k riday 12:10 irst Central Congregational Church The Hu manities aculty of the University of Omaha presents Martin Bush in a recital of Renaissance organ music Program by Hofhaymer Sweelinck Couperin Gab i 1 1 i rescobaldi Buxtehude Byrd and Purcell Open to the public sk sk sk Saturday 8:00 Joslyn Memorial Lecture Hall The Ad ventist Artists Concert Series pre isents Charles Watson pianist as the a set After work mg on the script witn writer Hicn ard English for Strong Cast for Romberg Musical Russell Lewis and Howard Young are again touring Sigmund famous musical Desert this season with the Orpheum theater Nov 12 (Edward Roecker Gale Sherwood Nineteen of the orchestra ofbnd Jack Good co starred These thirty four have a number of tai producers toured another company ents and work in various capaci during the 1945 1916 season with ties The same is true of the large success and have had many re singing section quests for a return engagement of or example there is Hugh the production Uncle Dumpy Brannum bass Diaver known 1 Bist Check for Dick Bill Burton is bustin' his but tons His boy Dick Haynies got a royalty check from Decca for 215 thousand dollars for one year Clark Dennis and his wife have moved into their new valley home bought from royalties on Clark "Peg 'o My Heart" After kickins around the radio circles here for five years and serving a hitch in the Pacific Dennis come into his own (Releasel by Chicaro Tribune New York News The 1945 1916 tour of Dcs player known to thousands of iert was the first in 15 young people In addition to being'years since three companies ini a good musician and a band comedian Uncle Lumpy is narrator and writer of the children's stories Brannum will play a prominent part in the two performances of the Waring show which go on at 7 and 9:30 The morning broadcast of the band and alee club has nothing to vember lo New Musical Set the Girls Go" a new mu sical comedy starring Bobby Clark as the husband of the first i will nnen Saturdav (November Todd producer whose Speaking of Music flair tor timing is famous pre vmusly planned to open the musi lcjarnJer Music cal election night Tins proved hardly feasible when critics on the Out of Doghouse tryout circuit assured Michael Joseph that his product was not in correct shape Considerable rewriting was or dered and more comedy tossed into the breach Bobby Clark fessjonaj anc amateur signs of its "ith the blessing of Toad laterentersence are to be seen That 4 A AA A A A A A WA 4 A A I A a 1 I 11 I A A A I is in the sense that more chamberjby Martin BushxProgram by! music is being heard and an in 1 Buxtehude rescobaldi Wesleyl creasing audience is being initiated Guilmant Howe Swinnen Weav er and Sowerby He will be assis ted by Miss Jacqueline Geilus pi anist in a group by Beethoven De bussy and Weber 5k 5k 5k Today 8:00 Joslyn Mem orial Gallery Two Concert of SsBri Hr 1 TN' ft Aina Ki 'A ItV I vw Sk ISai vtot ha Ti i tee z' 9 ilBWVb 1 bBbSBb BP BBnBBBBBBBBB 'kbst KSss 2 jysh tw mB A JEamMW wWBhBBBBBl wPBBBVkBIBBu HKK IWI 1 Jl A WteK.