Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1933 — Page 13

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SINGING BOYS TRIUMPH HERE IN BIGCONGERT Offenbach’s ‘Wedding by Lantern-Light’ Is Beautiful. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN Children the right training Can capture the beauty of a great religious mood and then with as much talent capture the melodious comedy of Jean Jasques Offenbach's "Wedding By Lantern-Light.’’ a comic opera. Such was the accomplishment last night at the Murat by the Vienna Singing Boys (Wiener Saengerknab n> who were brought here by the musical organizations of St. Philip Neri Parish of which the Rt. Rev. Msgr. R. R. Noll is pastor. Boys st.il in their teens make up thus organization. There was so much beauty of tone and such a spirited response in all moods of these boys that made this concert unique in the history of this city. Audience Appreciates Work These boys began their program with our National Anthem and then developed in a most significant way "In Festo Ascensionis: O Rex glorae.” lam sure that the marvelous sincerity and artistry of expression found in the first group on the program made many envious of the talent present. An envy which made a large audience appreciate the training and the Ideals backs of these singing boys. To my way of thinking, the way these boys took the parts of the male and female in Offenbach’s "Wedding By Lantern-Light” was ample proof of the ability of these singers. Not only did they capture the fun of the story but they obtained characterization which one would expect from adults. Triumph In Concert It was surprising with W’hat ease these boys triumphed in difficult passages of song as well as comedy characterization. Here was a gem of melodious comedy made extremely enjoyable by the natural artistry’ of a group of boys. The Offenbach opus was done In costume before a rural setting. It was remarkable the way the boys caught the spirit of fun which Offenbach has present in this comic opera. At times, I could not realize that boys in their teens were responsible for such a satisfactory presentation of this work. It was enjoyable to watch the faces of these singers in every mood \ of song. Here was eager, intelligent j and spontaneous response to the will of the director. Here was beauty of youth in song that one seldom finds. ILLINOIS MAN GUILTY IN DEATH OF GIRL Son of Former Pontiac Mayor to Get Manslaughter Term. By Vnited Press PONTIAC. 111., Nov. 30.—A jury yesterday found Asher Earl Bentley, member of a prominent family, guilty of manslaughter in the death of Aldine Younger, whose body was found on a rural highway. Bentley, 40-year-old son of a former Pontiac mayor, asserted during his trial that his youthful companion was struck by a speeding automobile when she left his car after a drinking party. The prosecution contended that Bentley struck her, then ran over her with his own car. OIL MAN'S WIDOW IS CLEARED BY SON. 6 Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Beauty for Slaying Sheldon Clark. By Vnited Press WOODBURY, N. J.. Nov. 30. Testimony of her 6-year-old son was believed today to have won freedom for Mrs. Audrey Smith Clark, auburn-haired beauty w’ho shot and killed her husband, Sheldon A. Clark Jr., wealthy oil company executive. The Gloucester county grand Jury refused yesterday to return an indictment against the widow after hearing an eye-witness account of the tragedy from little Sheldon 111. HELEN JACOBS. TENNIS QUEEN. IS THREATENED \yriter of "Obscene” Blackmail Nrites Sought by U. S. Agents, BP Vnited Press BOSTON. Nov. 30. Federal authorities today began a search for a would-be blackmailer who has sent several "threatening and obscene” letters to Helen Jacobs of California, national women’s tennis champion. Miss Jacobs, who has been spending the winter at the home of a friend in suburban Melrose, conferred yesterday with Hugo Bangulo, assistant United States attor- I ney. to whom the matter was referred by federal authorities in Washington. Card Party Is Scheduled A card party, sponsored by the newly organized Young People's Club of Holy Angels church, will be held at 2.30 and 8 Sunday in the school auditorium. Luncheon will be served by members of the Altar Sodality. Indianan’s Severe Stomach Disorder Healed at Last After suffering with stomach disorders for 8 years and taking many remedies without relief, H. O. Leon- : ard. Box 201 French Lick, Ind., reports he was healed by a simple home treatment. 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Mischa Elman Recalls Days as ‘Boy Prodigy’

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Mr. and Mrs. Mischa Elman with their daughter, Nadia Father’s Book Tells of Priceless Gift of Amati Violin; Famed Star Appears Here Sunday. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. Years ago a little boy, only 10, was presented with a marvelous violin, a priceless Amati, made in 1763. No, this isn’t a fairy story. It actually happened to Mischa Elman. The same hands which fondled the Amati will create great music on one of two Stradivari violins at English's at 3 Sunday afternoon.

When Mischa was only 10. his father, Saul Elman, was told by his son's teacher, Leopold Auer, that a mysterious stranger had been so impressed by Mischa's playing that he had purchased an expensive violin for the boy. Mischa’s father went to get the instrument, the beautiful Amati. "It will not be difficult to imagine the scene when I brought home the violin,” the - father says in "Memories of Mischa Elman’s Father,” recently published in New York City. "Mischa was the happiest child on earth and I the happiest of fathers. "We Danced About Room” "Our joy was so great that for some time we danced about the room, holding the violin like two children at play with some toy. A 3.000-ruble violin was something out of a fairy tale. "My eyes still grow moist when I think of that night—when my boy was still the simple child, all mine; our pleasures and joys shared, with no devouring world to come between.” Later it became known that the donor was the Grand Duke Meck-lembourg-Strelitz, a relative of the czar. Although Mr. Elman today is the possessor of two Stradivari violins, it is the first Italian violin which remains one of his dearest and most valued possessions. Wife Gave Valued Violin One Stradivarius Mischa owns is one of the first three violins in the world and was presented to him by his wife. It is dated 1717 and was purchased in Parks. The other Stradivarius, dated 1722, was once in the possession of Joachim, the great German maestro who pronounced Elman "a finished artist,” when only 12 years old. The Joachim "Strad” was purchased by Elman's father for his American debut. Mischa has many fond memories but he cherishes one especially. In 1905 when he was only 15 and had made his first appearance in London, he was commanded by King Edward VII of England to appear at court. Caruso Agreed With King After playing for the king of England and in the presence of the king of Spain, King Edward leaned against the piano and said to Caruso: "Isn't he wonderful?” Mischa recalls that the great Caruso, far from being offended because the king had bestowed such praise on a mere boy, agreed heartily with his majesty. "Caruso was the soul of friendliness and bigness," Mrs. Elman often has said. "I never caught him displaying the slightest trace of professional jealousy.” Daughter Wins Contest Mr. Elman, besides being one of the world's greatest violinists, is a splendid husband and father. His wife and 3-year-old daughter generally accompany their father on long ocean trips. Recently when Mr. Elman and his wife were returning to Europe, his daughter won a beauty contest with a prize of 500 francs which paid for her passage. Mr. Elman's program for Sunday | afternoon at English's under the management of Mrs. Nancy Martens is the same which he will give in New York City soon. a st a At City Theaters The Thanksgiving menu at local ■ theaters today is as follows “Little Women" with Katharine Hepburn at ! the Circle: Joan Crawford in "Danc- ! ing Lady.” at the Palace; “The Doll's House.” at the Irvington Playhouse, 33 North Layman avenue in Irvington; Jack Holt and Fay Wray in Master of Men." at the Ambassador; "Secret of the Blue Room,” at Keith’s: Claude Rains in "The Invisible Man." at the Apollo; Weaver Brothers and Elviry on the stage and ’Take A Chance.” on the screen at the Indiana; "Forgotten Men.” at the Ohio, and burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial. Tonight at the Indiana ballroom, the annual ball will be given by the Beth-el Temple. Sisterhood and Men's Club. The ballroom tonight will be conducted as a night club with Mildred Harris Chaplin, former wife of Charlie Chaplin, acting as hostess and mistress of ceremonies. Appearing with her w-ill be the California syncopators. an orchestra. Anew ordnance map of the county of Surrey, England, with a scale of twenty-five inches to the mile, will show every building more than ' tep feet square.

TAKE WHISTLE FROM WINDPIPE OF GIRL, 4 Obstruction Is Removed in Operation at Riley. Thanksgiving day is very timely for the family of Hilda Mae Pfister, 4, Tell City, who has had a piece of a whistle lodged in her windpipe for several weeks. Yesterday the obstruction was removed at the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children, and authorities there say the child's condition :s improving rapidly. Efforts of physicians in Tell City to remove the portion of whistle were unsuccessful. Hilda Mae’s father, Conrad Pfister, a factory worker, has been without employment and the Kiwanis Club took charge of the case and had the girl removed to the Riley hsoptial when it was learned Pfister was unable to pay for the operation.

Gobble-uns Thieves Grab Bounteous Holiday Repast. Tnirteen chicken dinners, sixtynine baked geese, thirty-six roast ducks, and three gallons of oyster cocktails, were furnished to modern Ali Baba and his forty (more or less) thieves and all the little “Babas’ ” and their tiny “thievlings” for Thanksgiving in Indianapolis today. Thomas O'Connell, 1934 Ruckle street; Howard Siebert, fish market, 1019 Scioto street; George Hall, 37 Bast Eleventh street, and Manual Kaseff, poultry dealer, 1242 Union street, were the generous contributors to making a merry Thanksgiving dinner for city thieves.

BY BRUCE CATION

TT is a mad. fantastic, and bitter- -*■ ly satiric tale that Myron Brinig tells in “The Flutter of an Eyelid.” A Boston novelist goes to California for a rest. Arriving, he finds himself in anew world. Everything seems topsy-turvey; the people are restless and their deeds are unpredictable. California’s air and sunlight go to our novelist's head, and presently —in a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't manner that gets pretty confusing occasionally—he sets out to write a novel about his new acquaintances and finds that they are following in real life the fictional plot he has laid down for them. Furthermore, although he is arbiter of their destinies, he never can tell what he is going to write next. There's a gorgeous woman evangelist who spies a simple-minded sailor and decides that he is anew Messiah. The sailor always sort of thought so himself, so he lets her exploit him. He preaches, heals the sick, signs a movie contract, proves his divinity by walking on the ocean's surface—and suddenly loses his grip when a naked girl swims up to him, so that he drops below the surface and drowns. Then there's a womapAvith a penchant for poisoning her husbands, a suburban mayor who goes to break up a nudist dance and remains to participate, a young poet who meets the great god Pan on an island—and so on. And it all makes a most unusual book—one that is wholly mad in places, savage and caustic in other places, and here and there set off with a wild and moving beauty. Published by Farrar and Rinehart, it sells for $2. EDUCATOR RECOGNIZED Texas College Head Appointed to National Committee. By United Prett HUNTSVILLE. Tex.. Nov. 30.—Dr. H. F. Estill. president of Sam Houston State teachers college, has been appointed a member of the National, Education Association's national committee on the administration of teacher training. t

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TAX RATES CUT BY MUNICIPAL UGHTJH.ANTS Profits Transferred Result in Huge Savings, Minton Says. How low rates and tax reducing profits combined to aid consumer and taxpayer In twelve Indiana towns having municipally owned utilities, was set forth today in a tabulation of 1932 returns made by Sherman Minton, public counselor, wtth the public service commission. The data was compiled upon request of Mayor C. C. Dubois of Warsaw and Earl W. Conrad, a business man of that city, Mr. Minton said.

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PRESIDENT TALKS OVER PROGRAM AT ‘LITTLE WHITE HOUSE’

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President Roosevelt's new “office” at Warm Springs is the front seat of his little runabout in which he holds conferences while driving over Georgia roads. The distinguished visitors shown here with the President are, left to right: General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator; William C. Bullitt, newly appointed ambassador to Russia, and John J. Raskob.

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BEHF.JD SIX FOR SLAYING NAZIS Communists Put to Death by Hitlerites for Killing Two. By Vnited Press COLOGNE. Germany. Nov. 30. Six Communists were "beheaded today in the prison yard at Cologne for the killing of two Storm Troopers last February. The Communists were sentenced ; in July, but more than four months elapsed before their appeals were j heard and the death sentences confirmed. Bearded faces became so fashionable in fourteenth century Spain that many men wore false beards of various shapes and colors to match t their clothes and moods.