Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1944 — Page 12
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Gary Grant in “Once Upon a Time” Walker Sunday
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By The SAINT This is, another in n series of letters received from Opal Tandy, who is now .stationed somewhere in France. Because of Mr. Tandy’s interesting style and personal touch, we are sharing his letters with the reaSers of this newspaper. DEAR GIBSON: I suppose you think I am the most elusive person in all the world. "iVlien I. wrote to you last I was in England. Now I am in France where all tut* heavy fighting is going on. While crossing the English Channel I got seasick again. I guess I just never would be any good as a sailor. France is a place of ruin as far as I have seen. It looks like a tornado came through. Houses leveled to the ground, ragged, dirty children raring the streets and begging for bread and cigarettes. The people give us lovely flowers and wine aslwfe drive by. The worn en are some of the most attractive in the wj)rld, but you can’t trust all of them. France reminds me of a ravishingly beautiful woman with deutb in her eyes. While in the States I was just playing soldier. Over here it’s the real thing or you die. I am more afraid of snipers and mines than J am of anything else. The Germans mine «ny and everything. I went in a house yesterday and found some books, a large clock and some wine. In the yard was an apricot tree and I picked some of them. It took me one-half hour to walk 20 feet for fear of hitting a mine. I imagine that Ernest (Rip) Brown is here also but we move so fast until I haven’t seen him yet I live in a hole dug In the ground and covered with wood and grass. Don t think the Germans aren't here. Everything you have heard about them is true. When their planes coirae over, anti-aircraft shakes the whole earth. I’m not going to lie to you either. I am scared. I think all of us are scaled and the bad part of it is that there is no place to run and hide because you are suppose to fight them hack. Yesterday I washed my face for the first time in a week. As our army advances we see hundreds of vehicles and dead live-stock. Beautiful fine horses, some with the saddles and harnesses still on them. If you could smell human flesh you could not sleep for a week. I never saw so many dead people in ail my life. Sometimes I dream about them in nightmares. Its hell over here. I am learning to speak French fairly well. It seems pretty odd that all the things I used to think so important in the states are not nearly so imjxjrtant now. I haven t killed any Germans yet. but if I do I’ll send his German Luger to George Sneed tor a birthday present, but if I get some field glasses I’ll keep them. The people here wear wooden shoes. One night a horse looked in my tent. 1 was jittery and almost blew his head off with my rifle. Boy. if seme of the women knew what their men were going through, they would cry their eyes out, but it is for a better cause. I suppose so, because it could not he for a worse one. Tell Esther hello and the gang. Your friend, OPAL
They want to me and
• • # FRIEND OPAL: Yonr very good friends are inquiring daily about you. to know if you are alright. Your very interesting letter publl&ud above, will assure them of your safety. Your good friend Wesley O. Jackson. J>aseball magnate, is back to town after a jaunt to Fort Wayne, Toledo and Detroit. Mr. Jackson will remain in Naptown for a few days to promote the last games of the season. Mr. Jackson has several more games slated for the season. • • • Mr. James Gayhart.* Democratic precinct committeeman over on the {South Side, asked about you Tuesday. He wants to know when vou are going to send us an article on the war from all angles. Mr. Gayhart lives at 910 Meikel street, and is a former deputy sheriff, serving with Rufus (Oriental) Martin under Sheriff Otto Ray. • • • Your good friends Robert (Bob) Cross and Herschal Buckner. Avenoo playboys, were out playing in the “500 block Monday. Yours truly and Wesley O. Jackson were on the receiving end. Deputy Prosecutcr Ruffus Kuykendall came in late and told about his 2-week vacation in Fox Lake. Gary and Chicago. Mrs. Libby (Bookkeeper) Filmore received a very nice letter from George Thompson, now stationed in Hawaii .... Jack (Elks Exalted Ruler) Imes and party really knocked themselves out in the Windy City during the Elks’ convention. Mrs. Betty (Society Ed) Taft Griffie and hubby played bard at the Pershing hotel during the week of the convention in Chicago. Ditto for Luddie Johnson, Amos Hartwell, Horace (Oriental) Stone and a host of others. • • • There were 6« fights and wholesale liquor drinking and cursing at the recent East-West game. . . . Tain’t true about Lena Horne marrying Charlie (Band Leader) Barnett, according to The Wagon in last week's Chicago Defender. Jack (piano playing) Dupree is in town from the Big Apple. • • • Attorney Frank Beckwith is still fighting against moving the detention home over on the East Side. So many of our leaders ha\ent even as much as given the fight a NOD. Can you imagine such stupid folk? • • . Mis* Stena Marie Holdahl. the white lady who conducted The Re eordet cooking schools, has married. We know you joins with the staff in wishing her the best of luck. • • • Townsend Green, former Walker theater manager. Is busy with plans to open a tavern In th* “600” block along the main stem . . . . Ben bow s Rhumboogie is booked to open Labor Day. • • • Mrs. Genevieve (former Oriental Waitress) Perkins, wife of Curlee (Cleveland) Perkins, will leave shortly for a 2-week visit with hubby in the city by the lake. Flash (dancer) Laurence hit the burg ?. days ago for a visit with his mother. • • • John Byrd of the Avenue Inn. was in town at this writing on a shur'* vacation from Uncle Sam’s army. • • • Marie Pinkston is confined in the City hospital from a turned ankle. r ,ne l» expected back on the main stem in a few days. Tom Willard is back in circulation after quite a si>ell of sickness. Guy Lester is out walking around after several months on the sick list. • • • Duke Ellington is playing the town tonite (Tuesday 29). and a big crowd is expected. This is about all the news we can think of (U thts time. We are sending you a special also. Regards to all the beys.* Lonnie (Doone) Seymour is still putting on those (POTS) daily as a come on. * —THE GANG
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Greatest Entertainment Bill “Takes Over” In St. Louis
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The above quartet supported by Moke A Poke, sensational comedy team; Ralph Brown, superlative flash dancer: Gatemouth. the world’s greatest blues singer, who performs also (and superbly, too!) as emcee; plus, of course, Milton Guggs, "the sepia Frank Sinatra,” have “taken over" the Club Plantation in St. Louis, Missouri. Never before has such an array of talent performed in the “show me’’ state. Ella Fitzgerald, America’s First Lady of Song, and her incandescent chanting; Nora Blunt, featured vocalist with Luis Russell’s Orchestra, embodied with the trombone artistry of Clyde Bernhardt and the great Mr. Russell, himself, at the piano, is all summed up in 6ne word—"solid!" -
WHIMSICAL FABLE FEATURES JANET BLAIR AND JAMES GLEASON
While this department has taken no Gallup-poll on the subject, consensus of opinion in wandering about town seems to Indicate that the movie-goers are inthe frame of mind to accept something different, something off the beaten track of. melodrama, realism, oV even good, old slapstick. If that is the fact, advanca reports of Columhit's “Once Upon A Time”, starring Cary Grant and featuring Janet Blair, soon to bo shown at the Walker theater Sun day seem to indicate that said film fans are going to get just that
something different, something off ihe beaten track, something new under the Hollywood sun. 0 “Once Upon A Time" is said to he whimsical. heart-warming and chucklesome. WTien we learn that ihe story has to do with a Broadway producer (Cary Grant), who has just had three colossal flops, and is about to lose his theater hut thinks his luck has changed when he discovers a young lad . . . (Ted Donaldson» with acaterpillj.r which can dance to the tune of ‘Yes Sir. That’s My Baby", one may easily surmise the tremendous (Kissihiiitie for whimsy.
Gay Surprise Hit At Walker Sunday For Holiday Moviegoers
“Women in Bondage” Park Tues.
Women In Bondage” At Cool Park
Because S*anoy Kelly rebels at Nazi leader Gertrude Michael’s ruthless interference with her marriage plans, she is tor-
tured by the Gestapo in Women in Bondage" at the COOL Park theater Tuesday.
Musician Held by Nazis Tells of Prison Life
NEW YORK—'We learned to live in hell and got used to it”. These words summed up the experience of Maceo Jefferson, music arranger, who arrived here recently from France where he, an American, was Internea in a Nazi civilian prison camp for two and u half years. Mr. Jefferson, who is now employed arranging scores for a number of outstanding orchestras, had made his home in Europe since he went there with the famous Lew Iveslit’s "Blackbirds*’, . . . starr ing the immortal Florence Mills. In an interview this week, Mr. Jefferson explained that he was among the American prisoners exchanged for German prisoners, and came over on the last trip of the Gripsholm. He does not know how he happened to be chosen as one of the lucky ones, for he left many of his comrades behind in the prison camp. The musician was in France when America declared war on Germany and was incarcerated in Frontstlag 122. about 70 miles from Paris. During air raids on this area, three colored prisoners, close friends of Jefferson, were among those killed. Between 1100 and 1200 civilian prisoners were imprisoned in the camp, among which were a good number of Negroes, hut there was no racial discrimination, the musician said. Although civilians, the internees seemed to have had no more privileges than if they had been .military prisoners of war. He said they were guarded by German soldiers, kept behind barbed wire and six machine gun nests were perched above the camp . . . grounds. They were permitted to have visitors for ten minutes only, every fifteen days, and had to talk to them through mesh wire. Having been taken prisoner early in the war, these first groups suffered from lack of recreational facilities, and of course, the food was merely something to eat. They had soup once a day and herb ten once or twice. A common food like oatmeal was a treat. It was served every Friday afternoon, he said. After days of inertia and bore
dom. recreatlona 1 . besan to arrive from America through the War Prisoners’ Aid of the YMCA, he explained. Musical instruments, basehall sets, punching hags, other athletic equipment and books. The
One of the most amazing motion pictures of all those induced by the present war at the COOL .Park theater Tuesday with the showing of the Monogram drama, “Women in Bondage”. It exposes conditions which have been little realized by the outside world, and gives a sordid picture of home life under the Hitler regime. Gail .Patrick and Nancy Kelly are eo-atarred in thus startling film, and head a cast which is exceptional in size and the ability of its members. Miss Pa trick is seen as a German woman who returns home during tiie war, aftre several years' absence .and is horrified at the degraded status which has been enforced on the women of her native land. KOLAX DRAWS 1500 DANCERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Aug. 27— The mighty King Kolax and his loyal friend Agnes brought his seiu national orchestra to Indianapolis for a* one-night engagement and laid tfie Jitterbugs in the aisle. The dance’ fans here say that King Kolax has the greatest band they nave ever heard. They blow and blow and plow. They jump and jump rn4 jump. Taylor deaths, manager of the Sunset Terrace wants a return engagement every time he can.get them. He had a capacity i crowd numbering 1500.
PARAGON GIRLS AT CHIEF CLUB
The Paragon Girls will give a party and dance at the Chief Clut> on North Senate Avenue Saturday nite. September 2. The club has made elaborate plans for this Lai hor Day-Eve dance, and a eommitj tee of charming girls are -busy j selling tickets to the affair, which promises to be one of the most en- | joyjfble parties ever held at the | Chief Club. Mr. Benbow. owner of the club, is co-operating with the girls Kfif percent.
men had to fill in the trenches rha. had been dug by tin* French in order to make a baseball diamond
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—SUN., MON., SEPT. 3, 4- OPEN NOON SUN. East Side Kids Are At It Again “MILLION $ KID” Ruth Terry in Her Best Hit “ROSIE, THE RIVETER” ‘HAUNTED HARBOR’—Sun. Mat. and All Shows Mon.
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Baby Seals Stars In Step Fetchit’s Revue CHICAGO. 111., Aug. 31—Stepin Fetchit and his Swingaroo fHot from Harlem revue, featuring Baby Seals, _ Joan Luneeford, song bird of the South; Two Bits of Rhythm: Willard Garner, popular song delineator, Jesse Davis, taps deluxe; Frip Taylor, master of ceremonies; Pete Diggs and his vibraharp and Vivian Taylor’s 10 Bronze Bombshells played the State theater. Benton Harbor. Mich., Aug. 26-28, with the Paradise theater in Detroit and the Palace in Toledo on later dates. The show organized in Chicago, according to latest reports, is doing a land office business.
PATRICK* KELLY •in NENRY*c»»m MICHAEL* < i WARNER HU'S WRIX0N*m« BIRELL*»»e NAGEL iun BAXTER A MONOGRAM PICTURE A1 Pearce and His Radio Show HERE COMES ELMER
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“NIGHT IN MEXICO CITY”
BAND ROUTES KING KOLAX AND HIS ORCHESTRA Sept. 1—Charleston, S. C. Sept. 2—Savannah. Gn. Sept. 4—Lakeland, Fla. Sept. 5—Tampa, Fla. Sept. 6—Daytona Beach, Fla. Sept. 7—Orlando. Fla. FLOYD RAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA Sept. 1-2—Detroit. Mich. Sept. 3—Columbus, O. Sept. 4—Buffalo. N. Y. CAROLINA COTTON PICKERS ORCHESTRA
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Spencer Tracy’s fearful journey begins with the terror of pursuit through the swamps. ★ ★ ★ ★ It ends in tie arms—and the heart of unforgettably lovely Signe Hasso. - ★ ★ ★ ★ Together they bring to thrilling life an astounding drama—of superb courage— and undying devotion! ★ ★ ★ ★ That drama is M-G-M’s “The Seventh Cross”! ★ ★ * ★ Here is the cold fury of men driven by fear, the deep shadows of a world plunged in evil, a wonderful love that points the way to freedom—told with the crashing i'mpaci of Juggernaut!
Cary Grant, .lam* Blair, James Gleason and Ted Donaldson arc shown in a scene from "Onre Upon A Time”, which starts Sunday at the Walker.
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Sept. 1—Dallas. Tex. Sept. 2—Austin. Tex. Sept. .*1—Corpus Christi. Tex. Sept. 4—San Antonio, Tex. Sept. 5—Orange, Tex. Sept 6—Lake Charles. La. Sept. 7—Alexandria. Li. SNOOKL M RI SHELL AM) HIS ORCHESTRA Sept. 2—Mtineie. Ind. Sept. —Indianapolis. Ind. Sept. 4—St. Louis, Mo. DARLINGS OF RHYTHM ORCHESTRA - Sept. 1—New Haven. Conn. Sept. 3—Taunton. Mass. Sept. 4—Boston. Mass. Sept. 5—Albany. N. Y. Sept. 7—New Haven. Conn. CHRISTINE CHATMAN AND HER ORCHESTRA Sept. 2—Richmond. Ind. Sept, li—Cincinnati. O. Sept. 4—Chicago, Hi.
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Tracy, as the hunted, haunted, hounded Heisler. gives the greatest, most dynamic performance of his career! ★ ★ ★ ★ Hume Cronyn. Jessica Tandy. Agnes Moorehead. Herbert Rudley. Felix Bressart perform with rare realism. Fred Zinnemann directed, Pandro S. Berman produced—like masters! ★ ★ ★ ★ Never has a picture bad such a great star, such a courageous story, such a warm romance! ★ ★ ★ ★ Nowhere could you find such tremendous entertainment! ★ ★ ★ ★ With “The Seventh Cross” M-G-M rings the bell for the nth time!
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