Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1936 — Page 15

APRIL 14,1936.

THURSTON TO BE REMEMBERED AS MAGIC'S MIRACLE MAN

Film Capital Amazing to Young Star Hollywood Different From Other Cities Freddie Has Visited. BY FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW as told to RI TH MTAMMANY Time* Special Writer "I found Hollywood the most amazing place I ever had seen. Os course, you know, a chap of 10 can not have seen very many places in the world, but I had been to London many times to recite or to read scenes from plays. I also saw some of New York, when we arrived from England, but not much—l wanted to go West at once to try out for the ‘David Copperflcld’ role. "It is a big step from Warminster, England, where I had lived nearly seven years, to a place which is like a city in a fairy story. Don’t you think that Hollywood is very different . . . somehow? Take, for instance, a grand opening of a picture where the lights plav on the theater; where the cars, hundreds of them, drive up to "he entrance and, as the stars step out, the cameras click all around them. Then, quite anew custom to me, they step up to a microphone and say ‘Hello, everybody,’ and all that sort of thing. "I shall never forget the ‘first night’ we saw. Cissy and I knew very few people and very few knew us. It was rather jolly, as a matter of fact, because we could look about as much as we pleased ... no one cared. Now it is different. I have to sign my name to autograph books and answer questions. Drug Stores Are Nice, Too "I love the drug stores here. I like to go into them at night because they look just like Christmas all the year round. I only get 20 cents a week allowance and I spend it all on little candies. Speaking of my allowance, some time ago I really had what I think was a good idea. Cissy spoke about the picture, ‘David Copperfield,’ getting an award for best production. "Freddie, she said, ‘I have wonderful news for you. . . . „ “ David Copperfield got first prize" “ ‘Very good.’ I said, and went on playing with Ray—he is my friend. “ ‘But aren't you interested, Freddie, in the fact that your first picture received such an honor?’ ‘“Prize . . . prize . . .!’ I said to myself—why I hadn’t received any prize. Then the idea came to me. “ ‘Certainly, Cissy, I am glad, but I was not there when they gave out the prizes, so if you w’ili give me a dime—one too, for Ray, I will consider myself rewarded.’ We Are Surprised "I never dreamed, really, that she would do it. Cissy is pretty strict about money matters but she did and Ray and I hurried over to a drug store. "I have not seen all of Hollywood yet. I started r v work at the studio and my sch iol at the same time. "Have you seen the little white school house at the studio? Rather quaint, I think. I should have preferred my classes with the other children—Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper and the others but it seems that I am to retain my British manner of speech. Really. I see no difference In the way I talk from the other boys, but an English teacher was engaged for me. Her name is Miss Mary Murphy and I tease her about her Irish ancestry. She is very nice though, even if she does keep me busy. I take the regular California school subjects and added to them are English History, English Arithmetic, French and Classic Poetry. I like the pick personalities out of my English History. For instance, I think it quite interesting to read about the Stuarts but I wish Mary, Queen of Scots, could have given some of her charm to Queen Elizabeth and that Queen Elizabeth could have given Mary some of her political ability. History would have been very different perhaps. About King Henry "Miss Murphy tells me to discuss anything with her I wish, so long as I take the floor, so I said to her one day: “ ‘Miss Murphy, this bounder, Henry the Eighth, was quite a fellow, was he not?’ ” ■ “‘Just what do you mean by “quite a fellow,” Freddie?’” ‘“Well . . . er . . . why, he had quite a few wives . . . ’ ” “ ‘Freddie—you may sit down and continue your silent study.’ ” “ But Miss Murphy, you said .. ” “ ‘We will not have open discussion today.’ ” "I concluded that Miss Murphy knew nothing of a ‘regular fellow.’ "The next day I took the floor again: “ ‘Miss Murphy, I think a play written for Henry the Eight and Mae West would be rather amusing : . . don't you?’ ” “ ‘I do not.’ ” He Would Not Rate J “ 'I am quite serious, you know. If I could bring one of those medieval villains to Hollywood today—l personally do not think he would rate.’ ‘ “'For instance, if he met Mae West, she would soon put him in his place.’ ” “ Freddie, have you your Sir Gallahad, there?’” “ ‘Yes, Miss Murphy,’ ” ‘“Then please find me the passage you spoke of this morning, and read it to me.’ ” “ ‘Sometimes on lonely mountain meres I find a magic bark I leap aboard, no helmsman steers; I float till all is dark!’ ’’ “ ‘Thank you, Freddie—Sir Gallahad was a medieval knight, why not think about br'nging him to Hollywood?’ " “ I shall, if you wish—but he would not make good comedy. In fact, if he met Mae West . . . that .would be tragedy.’* ; “ ‘Freddie Bartlolomew, you will f*main after school.’” "But to get back to my work . . . “I had never dreamed that I would

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Offered the role of Little Lord Fauntleroy, Freddie Bartholomew refused on the ground that every one would consider him a “sissy” if he appeared in long curls. So

be a king—even a make-believe one —but when they gave me the story of ‘Professional Soldier’ to read, there he was and there I was—King Peter. "However, being a king was not quite so important as the boxing lessons Victor McLaglen gave me when we had a bit of time off between scenes. “ ‘Do you want to learn to box, son?’ he asked me one day. “ ‘Do I? . . . why Victor—l should say I do.’” “‘Great! Now little fellow, there is science to this sport: you’ve got to be quick with the eyes and feet—you’ve got to be alert in guarding yourself and above all—know how to come back smiling, for more.’ ” “ ‘Righto—let us proceed.’ ’” “ ‘O. K. and for every time you hit me on the chin, I’ll owe you 15 cents.’ ” I Win $3 "I have an idea that Victor was a little easy on me because at the finish of the picture, he owed me $3. “I had a few weeks of just school and play before the news came to me that I was to play ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy.’ Little Lord Fauntleroy of the golden curls and velvet suit trimmed with lace. I did not wish to wear yellow curls, but a contract ties up one so that there is nc retreating ... So I went to see Mr. Hugh Walpole, who was writing the story for the screen. “ ‘Mr. Walpole, sir, may I discuss this poor little Lord Fauntleroy?’ ” “ ‘Certainly, Freddie, but why do you call him poor little Lord Fauntleroy?’ ” “ ‘Well, sir, it seems to me that he never had a chance in the story or in the minds of the people who read it. The long curls, lace collars and the like, rather made him ridiculous, whereas he was not at all.’ ” An Unfortunate Boy “‘Then just what kind of a boy do you think he was?’ “‘I think he was just unfortunate, Mr. Walpole; that the grownup people around him—his father — and his grandfather made stupid mistakes and he and his mother took all the blame, really!’ “ ‘Quite true, Freddie—but everything turned out all right, didn t it?’ “ ‘Yes . . . but it ended that way because Little Lord Fauntleroy was as they say here a ‘regular fellow.’ He had courage—he was determined.’ “ ‘Fine, Freddie, I think Mrs. Burnett, who wrote the book, has written just that way.’ “ ‘That is just the point, sir, but why did she spoil the whole thing by putting him in long curls, lace and velvet?’ “‘Ho—ho. young man, so that is what this discussion is about—curls and laces.’ “I Propose Arbitration” “ ‘Exactly, sir. If you and I could get together and hold out for no curls—we —we would have them, sir.’ “ ‘Have them? Do you mean—you wish to strike?’ “ ’Well—er —no. sir—l believe you and I could—sort of—arbitrate with the producers and come to some agreement. You see, Mr. Walpole, first I was David Copperfield, then I was King in "Professional Sol-

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO "A Message to Garcia,” with 'Wallace Beery. John Boles and Barbara Stanwyck, at 11:35. 1:35. 3:35, 5:35. 7:35. 9:35. CIRCLE “The Farmer in the Dell.” with ,! 'red Stone and Jean Parker, at 11. ™ 50. 4:40. 7:30. 10:20. Also "Boulder Dam.” with Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis, at 12:40. 3:30. 6:20. 9:10. INDIANA 'The Singing Kid.” with A1 Jolson, Cab Callowav' and Yacht Club Boys, at 11:30, 1:35, 3:45. 5:50. 8. 10:10. KEITH’S "The Barker," Kenyon Nicholson’s famous play, directed by Charles Berkell, produced by the Federal Players, with Bernice Jenkins. Jack Duval. Ned LeFevre, Betty Anne Brown, Ira B. Klein in the cast. LOEW’S "Small Town Girl.” with Janet Gavnor and Robert Taylor, at 12:30. 3:40. 6:50. 10. Also "Moonlight Murder." with Madge Evans and Chester Morris, at 11:20. 2:30. 5:35. 9.45. LYRIC “Everybody's Old Man.” on screen, with Irvin S. Cobb, at 11:19. 2:05. 5:02, 7:48. 10:34. Ve.udeviUe on stage, with York and King, at 1:05, 3:51, 6:48, 9:34.

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Producer David O. Selznick altered the role to please the boy actor. He is shown above in a scene from the picture. No “sissy,” this fellow.

dier” and they weren’t afraid of anything. I wouldn’t want all the boys who write me letters, for instance, to see me dressed up like that.’ “ ‘Now, Freddie,’ said Mr. Walpole, ‘the story of Little Lord Fauntleroy not only is a sweet, pathetic little romance, but the story could have happened yesterday—anywhere; it is a story of every-day problems in an every-day family. The fact that it is costumed in the period of the day it was written, is quite unimportant. Little Lord Fauntleroy’s actions and decisions in those problems are those of a boy with great courage and keen intelligence. You will be proud of playing the role, Freddie!’ “ ‘Very well, sir, but if, as you say, the costumes are not importantthen . . . well . . . why not eliminate them? You can do it.’” “ ‘Freddie, supposing I should tell you that you could wear an Eton suit during part of the English scenes in this story, and not a velvet one—you know, dear fellow, the Eton suit was worn then and is still worn now.’” "So that is what I wore. “I became Little Lord Fauntleroy and made friends with Prince the great Dane dog—roller skated between scenes in the large English hall on the set. and teased Mr. Aubrey Smith, the grouchy old Earl, about his cross face and funny mustache . . . and had fun with Mickey Rooney, the boot-black in the story.” (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Ohio to Revue Prison Picture Paul Muni Stars in Chain Gang Expose. Some time ago the movie, “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang,” starring Paul Muni, created a furore. It is to returned to the Ohio Theater tomorrow and Wednesday. The expose of life in Georgia prison camps instigated a congressional investigation and began a cycle of pictures on similar subjects. The Ohio’s second film is to be “I Dream Too Much,” with Lily Pons as the star. This is Miss Pons’ first movie. Starred with her is Henry Fonda. It is the story of an opera singer who longs for freedom, marries a young composer and helps him make good. Alison Skipworth Is Added to Film Cast Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 14.—Another stellar name has been added to the cast of “The Gorgeous Hussy,” starring Joan Crawford. Alison Skipworth, of comedy fame, has been signed for the role of Mrs. Beale, an early nineteenth century shrew. The picture is a costume production based on Samuel Hopkins Adams’ famous novel, and stars Miss Crawford as the beautiful daughter of the tavern keeper who rose to a position of power in early American politics. Others in the cast are Lionel Barn-mere, Robert Taylor, James Stewart, Melvyn Douglas, Edith Atwater and lan Keith.

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Story of Life Reads Like Tale By Horatio Alger Jr.; Played Here Many Times First Inspiration to Become Magician Was Given Him When He Saw Great Hermann Perform in Columbus; First Job, With Circus, Paid $6 Weekly. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON The Magic Wand has waved and Howard Thurston has vanished into the void from which no mortal returns. Yet his death yesterday in Florida must have been serene, for no life could have been fuiler than his. The acknowledged master of the art of necromancy, Mr. Thurston was first a showman. It was during the World War, just before one of his appearances at English’s Theater, that he had occasion to display his

iron nerve. Word came to Mr. and Mrs. ■Thurston in Indianapolis that their daughter Jane was critically ill with influenza at her school in the East. Mrs. Thurston hurried to her. On the way, she, too, was stricken and her condition was said 1 j be serious. Mr. Thurston stayed with the show. Made Train Reservations He made reservations on all trains going east. The tension was almost too much. How could he entertain an audience with his wife and daughter ill, perhaps dying? The overture was played. Just before he was to step on to the stage, he was given a telegram. Terrorstricken, opened it. It was an added blow. His brother Charles, a detective in Columbus, 0., had been slain by gangsters. Yet the show went on. Since he ran away from home at the age of 7, Howard Thurston’s "show” had been going on. His life story, told excellently in his autobiography, “My Life of Magic,” published in 1929, reads at times, like an Alger romance. The primary inspiration to become a magician first struck the boy when he saw the Great Hermann perform at the Columbus City Hall. Howard, entranced by the great man’s magic, followed him to his hotel after the show. Father a Carriage Maker His father was a carriage maker and an inventor on the side. Such things as a curling iron (still in use), two-wheeled roller skates, a cigar-making machine and a beefsteak pounder, were produced originally by the elder Thurston. With the family in dire straits, young Howard and his brother went from door to door one winter, selling the steak pounders, and the proceeds went far toward supporting the family. r At 9 he had become an expert newsboy, turning over most of his earnings to the home. But the wanderlust, a malady from which he never recovered, took him, and he ran away with a jockey friend. They hopped a freight train for Cincinnati. Howard sold papers for food. Not quite small enough to be a jockey, he went to Chicago, where he carried on his newspaper trade, selling in front of the Palmer House. His spare time was spent in practicing the easier slight-of-hand tricks; making small coins disappear and picking them out of his friends’ pockets. Gets Job as Jockey Trying his luck at jockeying again, he got a job. Because he was overweight, his employers wrapped him in a sheet and attempted to sweat the avoirdupois out of him. But he was too weak to ride. "When police raided the Dallas (Tex.) tracks he was arrested. Fearing a life on the poor farm he tied blankets together, slid between the bars and escaped from a sec-ond-story cell. After several years of tramping about the country, one cold .wintry night found him standing in the alley near the stage door of the McVickers Theater in Chicago. He vowed to return to the theater some day with his own magic show. So earnest was his oath that he scratched his initials on the brick wall. Twenty-three years later, Howard Thurston, the great magician, took Harry Kellar, his friend and partner out into the same alley, showed him the initials, still visible on the wall. Kellar, the world’s greatest sleight-of-hand artist, had chosen Thurston as his successor, and was taking him on his farewell tour. Meets Philanthropist In 1885, young Thurston accidentally met W. M. F. Round, a New York phi'anthropist, who immediately took a liking to him. So engrossed did Howard become in religious thought that in 1886 he enrolled in the Mount Hermon School, intending to become a medical missionary. Christmas night, 1887, he gave his first magic show, before members and friends of the school. His card tricks baffled the students and when he performed his first “ladyslicing” act two women fainted. Another sight of the Great Hermann decided him definitely on a theatrical career and he went back to his father’s home, studied hard for more than a year. With his mother as, his audience he perfected all the tricks he had seen Hermann do. When he was ready to leave on his own, he approached his father

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for funds with which to finance his career. His father handed him a quarter. Combining magic with business, Thurston sold potato-peelers as the climax to a series of tricks, before small street gatherings. In Cleveland he saw the Sells Bros, circus and landed his first real job at $6 a week. He was billed as “Anderson, the Wizard of the North.” The routine included 30 or 40 performances a day. In the show he met Billy Burke, the great clown of the day, and his wife and daughter Billie Burke. Billie, a 10-year-old with curls, traveled in the wagon with Thurston and the troupe as they lived a hand-to-mouth existence for several months. The show broke up and Thurston was stranded. He landed his first and last acting job. It was in a melodrama, “Trix, the Pet of Black Canyon,” and Mr. Thurston admitted he didn’t fit. Moving boldly to Broadway, Thurston spent more than a year looking for work. He spent hours in Union Square Park, practicing his card tricks, often went for days without food. Finally he was told to meet two theatrical agents for an interview. Knowing his type of show demanded an audience, he spent his last cent for an ad: “Wanted: 1000 men for one hour’s work at $1 each.” He Got the Job The auditorium was jammed. He told the men that there must have been some mistake and went through his act for them. The audience appeal they furnished proved his talent to the agents and he got a job. After a very successful engagement at Tony Pastor’s vaudeville house, where he worked for SSO a week, Thurston’s success seemed assured. He went to London, appeared at the Palace Theater in 1900 and was an overnight hit. Back stage one evening King Edward VII sat on the dressing room trunk and learned card tricks from Thurston. During his European tour he gave private performances for the Shah of Persia, Baron Rothschild, President Loubet •of France, the Kings of Siam and Belgium, and the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. The latter rewarded him with a gold watch which struck the hours. Builds “Big” Show Feeling that the trend of the times was toward more lavish shows, Thurston spent months, working 18 hours a day, building his "big” magic show. The SIO,OOO he had saved was spent by the time the show opened in Boston in 1902. It was a hit and jumped immediately to the Fourteenth Street Theater in New York, where it ran for several months. There followed another world tour, on which the show was received excellently. He came home only when Kellar offered to introduce him as his successor on his farewell American tour. Although he longed to return to the Far East, Thurston lived the rest of his life here, traveling extensively with his shows, spending his spare time devising new tricks. Until four years ago he appeared at English’s almost annually. In 1933 he gave his show at the Indiana and his last local performance was at the Circle in 1935. He met Mrs. Thurston while traveling with one cf his shows. She became an ardent fan and adviser. After their daughter, Jane, was bom, Thurston never gave a performance without mentioning her name. In recent years she was with the show. Incident in Georgia In a little Georgia town years ago, Thurston happened to be in the railway station when a Negro boy was run over by a train. The boy’s leg almost was severed and none of the men would lift him. Desperately Thurston tried hypnotism. It didn’t seem to work. "Send me Jesuh, send me Jesus,” the boy cried. Then, seeing Thurston stooping over him, he asked: “Is you Jesus?” Thurston knew what a negative answer w T ould

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'Gypsyana' Author Hails Work of Arranger Burton B. Burkette Frank 0. Wilking Reveals His Friend Has Spent Year Smoothing Out Score of Musical Play. There is an unsung hero behind every successful motion picture musical score, dance orchestra program and musical comedy. He is the arranger, the man who clothes the tunes in orchestral dress. He can make or break a production, but receives little recognition.

One Indianapolis composer, however, insists upon giving credit where it is due. Frank O. Wilking, whose musical play, “Gypsyana,” is scheduled for a private preview at English’s Friday night, wishes it known that Burton B. Burkette has made a valuable contribution in preparing the new show for performance. “All credit for the arrangements of the score of ‘Gypsyana’ should be given to Mr. Burkette,” he said “He has been a very close friend of mine for many years, and has worked tirelessly and long in arranging all the music. "Mr. Burkette has spent a whole year in smoothing out the score, and mean to the dying lad, so he replied: "Yes, I will take your pain away.” The boy closed his eyes and died in peace. The next morning when Thurston left, hundreds of townspeople, white and Negro, knelt as he passed to the train. Liked to Play for Children He was known throughout the world as a friend of children. He seemed to get his greatest delight out of appearing before groups of youngsters in the hospitals for crippled children. His visits to Riley Hospital here always will be remembered. "Time is the great magician—it changes all things,” was one of his favorite quotations. But Time did little to Howard Thurston. When he appeared here last year he was enthusiastic over anew stunt he almost had perfected. He was, as he always will be to the "kids” who watched him perform, the “miracle man of magic.”

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many hours were spent when every one else was in bed. It is nothing for him to start at 8 in the morning and work through until 3 the next morning. I want him to be given the credit for the unusual arrangement of the score.” Studied in Cincinnati Born in Troy, 0., in 1893* Mr. Burkette is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and was a concert organist for many years. Later he served as organist at Shay’s Theater in Buffalo and the Tivoli in Chicago, coming here from the latter theater to play at the Zaring 10 years ago. While in Indianapolis he was heard in daily noon broadcasts of organ music on WKBF. In 1930 Mr. Burkette received an appointment as arranger and associate conductor of the 30-piece Omaha Symphony Orchestra. Besides his work with the orchestra. Mr. Burkette has been in charge of five feature programs a week over station WOW in Omaha, making special arrangements for trios, quartets, string ensembles and choral presentations. Mr. Burkette now is in Indianapolis for the "world premiere” of “Gypsyana,” and is devoting his spare time to arranging and copying all the music for the 125-piano festival to be held in the Butler fieldhouse May 3. He says that he has written 90,000 notes for the festival players.

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'Battle Ax' on Stage Is Happy Wife York and King Are Partners in Life as Well as Behind ‘Lights.’ Because she could talk, Rose King became Mrs. Chick York. This sounds like a leap year romance, but it wasn't for the theater’s oldest man-and-wife team, York and King, playing this week at the Lyric. Mrs. King relaxed in her dressing room beneath the Lyric stage yesterday afternoon and explained just how the comedy team and. incidentally, the domestic team, came about. Both she and Mr. York, she said, were playing middle western theaters some 30 years ago when anew company was organized in Kansas City, with Mr. York as master-of-ceremonies. Several "sister” teams were tried out for the show, but only Miss King and her partner could read lines well enough to quality. “Battle Ax” on Stage A few years later she became Mrs. York in private life, since then has been "the old battle ax” in many a stage exchange of words with her husband. But in her dressing room she is just plain “Mom” to both Mr. York and their attractive daughter, True, who has played with them since graduation from college in 1927. As York and King they have played the "Old Family Album” and the “Old Family Tintype” in most vaudeville houses in the country and have used the same idea in movies. “If we change it now, even to leaving out a song,” Mr. York explained, “the customers complain, so we keep right on giving it as we have for years.” Mrs. York, in her dressing room without her ridiculous stage finery, little resembles the "war horse” who plays opposite the wise-cracking Mr. York in the “Old Family Tintype." She played without her husband in the Broadway production last winter of "Thumbs Up,” while he was in Texas looking after their oil wells, and lie didn't do badly either, it seems. Knew Will Rogers Mr. York was born in Oklahoma, grew up as a boy in Texas, knew Will Rogers when the popular comedian was getting his start in circus entertaining. They belonged to the same Masonic lodge in Oklahoma. Knowing Mr. York to be a veteran trouper who thinks in terms of audiences across the footlights, it wasn’t surprising to find him a little bitter about the invasion of movies and radio into the entertainment field. It isn’t movies and radio themselves that he deplores; it is, he pointed out to us, “that they have used up in five years all the ideas developed by the stage in 50 years.” Stage Future Not Rosy He is far from optimistic about the future of the stage, and as a producer (he owns one-fourth interest in "The Postman Always Rings Twice,” current Broadway hit) he is well aware of the fact that writers turn out stage plays with an eye on the profits from movie rights rather than thinking in terms of the stage and audiences. But these veterans of the entertainment world aren’t putting all their eggs in one basket. If the radio project doesn’t materialize, there's a vaudeville tour of Europe to be considered, and Mr. King wouldn’t be averse to staging a musical production in London. (By R. N.)

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