Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1933 — Page 5
OCT. 23, 1933.
SINGER GIVES KISS AND GETS BIG RED ROSE City Greets Rosa Ponselle With Great Ovation; Theater Jammed. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN In my memory never have I seen such a tremendous ovation given a grand opera singer as Indianapolis gave Rosa Ponselle of the Metropolitan opera Sunday at English's. Not content with Just applause, cheers and crys of "Bravo,” a number of people in the gallery rang bells which caused the most unique demonstration of approval ever given an artist in Indianapolis. Miss Ponselle re-
cognized the unique ovation and threw kisses to the packed gallery. Just before the ovation started, her attention was attracted to a box where a young girl sat. On one of Miss Ponselle’s exits, the child presented the singer with a big red rose. Miss Ponselle knelt over the rail of the box and kissed the child several times. And then returning, she pre-
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sented the child with a flower from her own bouquet add used the child's flower in one of the high lights of the program, the singing of "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.” After that there was no holding the audience, and the biggest ovation I have seen in Indianapolis in the past ten years was given Miss Ponselle. The result was, the spirited singing of "The Night Wind,” which climaxed the program and closed the concert to more applause. There were many reasons for the tremendous success of Miss Ponselle. First, the singer was in fine voice and a lovely mood. Even her black gown helped to make her a perfect picture of charm. Changes Program Then she changed her program while the concert was going on because she desired to sing numbrs that she had never done here before. In one group she sang two arias instead of one. Great fire and spirit was put into "The Gypsy Song” from "Carmen.” She actually excelled in this number because she is essentially a fine and mighty big actress. She brings all of the acting moods of opera to her concerts. I noticed that she was more expressive than ever and each number was given its own acting interpretation. Probably the most impressive thing she did was "Marietta’s Lied,” from the opera "Die Tote Stadt.” Here was perfect sympathetic singing if it ever existed. To me it was a musical cameo and a memory gem to cherish forever. One of her encore novelties was the unique "The Cuckoo Clock.” Here was charm and spirited fun about the meaning of the cuckoo of the clock. It is right to record this observation of mine. I firmly believe that Miss Ponselle came near pleasing everybody in the audience than any artist I have reviewed in my life time. I make that statement after lengthy deliberation. Establishes a Record Also I will go on record stating this was the most completely satisfying recital Mrs. Nancy Martens has ever given this city. Miss Ponselle had the honor. Stuart Ross is more than an accompanist. He is an individual in his own right and did a great deal in maintaining the charm and the pleasure of the recital. His two solo groups were excently done and his encores were appreciated. All in all. the opening concert of Mrs. Martens’ season will linger for years in the memory of the hundreds who sat or stood to hear Miss Ponselle. CHURCH 100~YEARS OLD Methodists at Rensselaer Observe Centennial Anniversary. By Times Special RENSELAER. Oct. 23.—Centennial of the Methodist church here was observed yesterday with addresses by the Rev. C. C. Young, district superintendent and former local pastor, the Rev. E. W. Strecker, Crown Point. Another service commemorating the anniversary will be held next Sunday. VICTIM OF CRASH DIES Auto Accident Injuries Fatal to Charles Ogle, Crawfordsville. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Oct. 23Injuries sustained when he was struck by a car driven by Charles Ogle proved fatal to Charles Wright. 60, in Culver hosiptal. Mr. Ogle was exonerated of blame by witnesses. I. U. Reports Increase By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Oct. 23 —Calumet center of Indiana university extension division has a 35 per cent increase in enrollment over last year, it has been announced. The total enrollment is 793, while the number of the corresponding period last year was 486.
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Screen Proves a Very Big Point in O’Neill’s Play ! Lee Tracy and Jean Harlow’s Burlesque in ‘Bombshell’ Is Their Own Business—and They Get Away With It. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN EMPEROR JONES” on the stage was a serious study of fear and superstition upon a man regardless of race. On the talking screen, this early Eugene O’Neill play has been powj erfully and dramatically recorded. "Jones" on the stage ushered in anew system of lighting effects as well as stage noises. On the stage th econtinuous beat of native drums kept one in the atmosphere of the play. On the screen another method is used. We have the beat of the drums used the most when Jones is attempting to escape from the island while chased by fear and “hants"
of his own mental equipment. On the stage, the play starts with Jones lording it all over subjects as a boasting emperor because of brute strength and the knowledge of how
I to put it over the natives. In the stage version, all of Jones’ past life is recalled either in “voices” talk- ■ ing to Jones or ! “visions” as he runs helplessly in , a circle while the natives beat their drums and wait for their victim to drop in front of them. In the movie I version, we start j with Jones in this
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. country when he | was a strutting Pullman porter, and we see his career of crime and murder in the states. We follow him from a harmless individual through the process of being not only a bully but a murderer. He stages another murder when he escapes from prison. These same scenes also appear to Jones when he is fighting fear as | well as death in the jungles and ! swamps. May seem like repetition, 1 but the skilfull way in which these | j “visions” are handled gives the pic- l ture much of its dramatic worth. To my way of thinking, "Emperor Jones” is an important item in the progress of O’Neill becoming the outstanding American playwright of our day. All of the chief characters in the j play proper are Negroes with the j exception of Dudley Digges, who j plays the role of Smithers, a white j trader on the island. I am willing to recognize great j acting ability and fine singing in any man, regardless of race. It is my own opinion that Paul Robeson gives a masterful and straightforward performance of the Pullman porter who becomes emperor. Watch the way he loses all of his bluff and power when he faces the demands of his own fear. I saw Gilpin play this role on the stage. Robeson is just as dramatic and as powful. The use of Negro spirituals in: certain parts of the movie gives a' most effective touch to those j scenes. Digges gives a fine but an unpleasant performance as the trader. The character, of course, is i placed there for contrast. Here really is a solo movie, meaning that one character and one actor make it an important movie. I believe that we have the right; to see "Emperor Jones” on the | screen if we want to. You be your own judge whether you want to see it. I am considering it only as a play. Now at the Apollo. an tt LOT OF WILD FUN IN “BOMBSHELL” I had the thought after seeing Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy in "Bombshell'’ that I had witnessed a burlesque on “The Royal Family.” In “Bombshell,” we are concerned with the ravings, the false emotions j and the love and home life of a
movie star who { was made great ’ box office because 1 of the efforts of a : high - powered I press agent, who | stopped at nothi ing to get the picJ ture and the name ! of his star in the headlines on the I front page of the j dailies. The less I you know about 1 this story, the ! more fun you will | have, because ; about every scene | in the life of Miss
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Harlow as the movie star is filled I with comedy dynamite. Here is rowdy, noisy fun and at times it j will ring pretty true to those who j know show business and press 1 agents. Because Miss Harlow and : Tracy are able to keep up a mile-a-minute pace from the beginning to the end of this picture, you have the fun being tossed before your eyes many times before you are ready . for it. Lola, the part played by Miss Harlow, is rather a dizzy person who j thinks she is in love when she isn’t ' and gets herself in an awful mess 1 when she takes seriously the idea of the press agent that she should have home, a child and a fireside. Enough of the story of “Bombshell.” Here is a dizzy, wild and reckless burlesque on the star system in Hollywood. Now at the Palace. ana LINE I P FOR SALLY RAND’S FAN DANCE I have seen fan dancers many times in my lifetime. I have not only seen them done on the vaudeville stage, but in one end of a | carnival tent. But Sally Rand is the first dancer of that type who is able to keep
people in line for ! hours before they can get into the theater. Miss Rand in the past has not identified 1 herself as a great ; dancer. Neither I is she that today. I Here is a woman ! who is overbur- I dened with pub- j licitv and gossip. I consider her a mighty clever j woman. I know : that she is well ;
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read and she convinced me that she is serious in her determination to chuck the fans, enter the movies again and try to be a star jon her own merits. Her fan dance j is gracefully done and she is able with the sensible use of lights to i create many pleasing poses. In all frankness, I have seen much more
| exposure of the human body in i “The Vanities” and in “The Follies” i than Miss Rand engages in. And ! yet, Ace Berry tells me that the biggest lines of people in the history of his local experience are reporting daily at the Indiana to see Miss Rand. She is using splendid psychology and, above all, Miss Rand is a mighty interesting person who knows just where and why she stands with her fans. I sincerely admire her judgment and common sense. The Three Jacks are splendid dancers and are one of the deserved merit hits of the bill. Bob Ripa is a juggler of real ability. He does things with clubs and balls I have never seen before. Ray Hughes is a good comedian and he has a splendid foil in his partner. Mayer gets comedy out of a small piano and Miss Evans makes a stunning appearance. She can sing. I hope I have named correctly just who is w r ho in this act. There is also a dancing chorus. The vaudeville bill this week shapes up as mighty comfortable theater. On the screen is Kay Francis in “Mary Stevens, M. D.,” a story about a woman doctor who gets all mixed up with love and duty. I am sorry but the crowds prevented me getting in on time to hear Lou Forbes and his orchestra. Now at the Indiana. ana HERE IS A VERY GAY COMEDY Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts take up a little crime in a big way in order to get necessary financial backing for embarking upon the sea of matrimony. That forms the background and the purpose of their current picture at the Lyric, “Love, Honor, and Oh, Baby.”
Although, in my opinion, this picture doesn’t measure up to some, these two comics have done, gayety, slap-stick, and good, wholesome fun is by no means absent from the picture. The story centers around the fact that the two sweethearts (Connie (Miss Pitts) and Mark (Slim Summerville) do
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not have enough money to get married. Mark is an ambulance-chas-ing lawyer, but can never seem to get a break, as most of his clients end up behind the bars. But he puts his fiancee up to the little trick of leading her boss, Jasper Ogden (George Barbier) on to such a degree that a breach of promise suit could be filed against him. The plan works very well, until one of the ‘framed” witnesses walks out on Mark, and from then on he fights with his back to the wall. Honesty is tossed to the winds and virtue "is forgotten as the shyster goes after the dough. The court-room scene is one of the outstanding ones of the picture and there are several short shots which will catch the fancy of those with a yen for slap-stick humor. This picture is just a big “‘family charade.” That is, it appeals because it is done in the manner of making fun with the audience. Whether this was the purpose in the first place or not, it is what seems to me to be the one thing that saves the picture from failure altogether. The cast is good, but nothing very heavy in the way of dramatic talent is required of any of them. There is Donald Meek, who appeared here in the stage version of “Os Thee I Sing,” in the role of the vice-presi-dent. and there is Lucilla Gleason of the famous Jimmy Gleasons, and there is Veree Teasdale, in the role of the Money-grabbing alimonyseeker. If you don't care for SummervillePitts. stay away, but if you like them and their kind, you may get a big laugh out of "Love, Honor and, Oh, Baby.” Now at the Lyric. (By the Observer) . nan Other theaters today offer: Mae West in the second week of her enengagement at the Circle; “This Nude World,” at the Ohio; “Riders of Destiny,” at the Alamo; “Song of Songs,” at Keith's; “To the Last Man,” at the Ambassador, and burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial. Death Settled for $4,000 By Times Special BLUFFTON, Oct. 23.—A judgment of $4,000 against the Indiana Service Corporation has been entered on the Wells circuit court docket as settlement of a claim for damages arising from the accidental death of Herman Grover last June, when he was shocked fatally while removing a high tension wire which had fallen across a highway near Craigville during a storm.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
DR. BIRD HEADS INDIANA LEGION SECTION Appointment of City Man Is Announced by’ Armstrong. Dr. Charles R. Bird. Indianapolis, who served with the British Royal Army Medical Corps on French and Italian fronts, before the United States entered the World war, has been appointed department rehabilitation chairman of the Indiana American Legion. The appointment of Dr. Bird was announced today by V. M. Armstrong, department commander, who said that Dr. Bird joined the Joe Welch post 129 of the Legion at Greensburg at the close of the war. He w'as department vice-commander in 1923 and Indiana representative on the national rehabilitation committee since 1926. “The Legion is sponsoring a rehabilitation program which it believes is just and equitable,” said Dr. Bird, “and wall appeal to all fair-minded people. We believe that no war veteran with a disability or the residual of a disease or injury incurred in the line of duty should suffer a reduction in benefits granted in the World war veterans’ acts in effect prior to March 20, 1933. “We believe that any World war veteran who was honorably discharged from service when in need of hospital treatment and is unable to pay is entitled to federal government hospitalization. We also believe that when service connection properly was granted that it should continue under laws in existence prior to March 20, 1933. “That widows and dependent children of deceased veterans should not be without government protection and that the benefits to this class be resumed and maintained as under the World war veterans’ act. With these objectives in view, we are charting our 19331934 course.”
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Sherman Minton
Speaker for the opening fall meeting of the Paul V. McNutt Democratic Club of Indiana Tuesday night at the Claypool will be Sherman Minton, public counselor of the Indiana public service commission. His subject will be “The Fulfillment of the Democratic Pledge.” Jacob Weiss, state senator from Marion county, will be another speaker. Music will be provided by Miss May Lindin, xylophonist. Herschel Goodman will preside. Arrangements for the meeting were made by a committee headed by S. J. Kagan. SEEK TAVERN BANDITS City Police Notified of S7OO Holdup at Edinburg Today. Indianapolis police were asked by the sheriff of Johnson county to be on the lookout for five bandits who early today held up the Tony Town tavern, near Edinburg, obtaining loot estimated at between S7OO and SBOO. The sheriff reported that the bandits, who fled north tow’ard Indianapolis, slugged an employe and forced him to open the safe, and also broke open several slot machines.
CRASHES CAUSE INJURIES TOIO OVERWEEK-END Motorcycle Rider Is in Serious Condition at City Hospital. Traffic accidents during the weekend resulted in injury of ten persons. one having been hurt seriously, and three arrests on drunken driving charges. A1 Cochran. 20. Plainfield, is in a serious condition at the city hospital with internal injuries incurred as a result of collison of a motorcycle with a truck at Tremont and Washington streets. The truck driver was Harry Bohard, 43, of 241 North Tremont street. Cuts w r ere received by Charles Ryan. 25, of 6145 West Minnesota street, as a result of an automobile collision in the 3400 block. West Washington street, in which a hit and run driver was involved. Held for Drunkenness Frank Brattain. 52. of 4503 West Jackson street, was arrested on a drunken driving charge after the automobile he was driving struck a car driven by Floyd Dennis, 19, of 58 East Wilkins street. Cut on the head was incurred by Miss Hildred Irons, 29, of 1041 Woodlawn avenue, when her automobile struck a parked car at State and Woodlawn avenues after a tire blew out. Injuries of the head and left leg were suffered by Raymond Smith, 20, of 4201 Jackson street, when a motorcycle he was riding upset at Taft and Jackson streets. Crashes Into Zone Charge of drunken driving was filed against Eugene Railey. 28, of 322 South Missouri street, after his automobile crashed into a safety zone guard at Pennsylvania and Ohio streets. Luther Hurt, 28, same address, who was riding with Railey,
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