Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1936 — Page 22

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Goodmar/s Band, Coming Saturday, Plays Finished Brand of 'Swing 7 Music Gene Woods, Local Orchestra Leader, Tells Story of Benny’s 10-Year Struggle to Devolop His Distinctive Treatment of Tunes. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Although most "swing” music may sound like it had been thrown together, that’s not true of the type of "swing” tunes turned out by B-nny Goodman and his band, according to Gene Woods, local band director and friend of Benny’s. Local dancers and popular music fans are to have an opportunity to study Benny’s music and Gene's analysis when the Goodman aggregation plays at the Indiana Roof ballroom Saturday night.

Gene met Benny back in 1925 when Benny was playing with a small band in a New York case. "Benny even then was a quiet, studious musician,” Mr. Woods related yesterday. "He was practicing continually, working out new ideas on the clarinet and saxophone.’ -

Played With Pollack Several years ago, Gene ran into Benny at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, where Benny was playing with Ben Pollack’s band. “By that time,” Gene said, "Benny had developed a style all his own. However, it wasn't a style which was popular with the laymen who came to dance. Benny had tricks and modernistic arrangements which nobody understood but the musician who knew music.” At that period in Mr. Goodman’s development, according to Mr. Woods, the "swing king” used strange intervals and chords which might sound funny to most folk, but which, to those who understood what he was trying to do, were admirable. Softened Style "So Benny softened his style and has commercialized it to a great extent,” Gene told us. Still Benny refrains from using any showmanship. He Just “sits and plays.” But the haphazard product of the "swing” musicians is really the result of hours of arranging and practicing, according to Gene. And Benny spends a lot of time working out types of songs which "make people dance.” -“Goodman is a calm, deliberate, thorough musician,” Mr. Woods explained. “He knows exactly what he wants, and. like Rudy Vallee, he has the knack of getting it.” Benny Frills in “Holes” The plot of the Goodman arrangements, Mr. Woods explained, Is made up of a set of strains surrounding the melody of the piece, all of which must be played exactly as Mr. Goodman has written them. But in the arrangement are "holes’’ where Benny and his clarinet, or saxophone, can fill in the very "modern” frills and furbelows which have made him famous in the world of dance music. "At, one time Benny's idea was to see how many notes he could play in his solo work. But time and judgment have changed his ’tune.’ And now it's not how many notes, but what notes he plays and how he plays them that counts,” said Mr. Woods. “And take it from me, as a rival band leader, you'll ‘swing right cut the front door’ when Benny plays.” j With Mr. Goodman’s orchestra will be Helen Ward, songstress. She Is one of the “extras” the youthful dance band leader carries on tour. Indianapolis will be one of the few cities to be visited by the Goodman group.

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Nine 'Brainiest' Stars on List Director Takes a Chance, Reveals His Choices. IBy l!tilted Press NEW YORK, May 7.—A1l the dangers he knew as a soldier of forj tune brought no fear to Leroy i Prinz, dance director for Paramount Studios in Hollywood, like that which enveloped him today after he named filmdoms most intelligent and graceful feminine stars. He blurted them out in an interview at his hotel, knowing full well “I’ll catch it in Hollywood.” They are, he said: Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Merle Oberon, Greta Garbo, Kay Francis, Marian Hopkins and Elissa Landi. “I would name Ginger Rogers, too,” he said, “but she is just an intelligent child. She’s not a woman yet. She is not of the jazz type everyone thinks she is. They think that just because she has been made a dancer.” Was Capone Employe That statement about Miss Rogers will cause him plenty of trouble, too, when he gets back to the film colony, Prinz forecast. Prinz, who was flogged in Algeria while a member of the French Foreign Legion and taken for a ride in Chicago by A1 Capone’s gangland enemies while directing merriment for the former underworld chief, thinks New York has more beautiful women than Hollywood. “Most women with vim, zip, style and smart carriage are right here in New York,” he said. “It was a revelation to walk down Fifth-av today. Outside of our few stars we don’t see really good looking, welldressed girls in Hollywood.”

Held Over “The Great Ziegfeld,” starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan and Louise Ranier, is to be held over for a second week at Loew’s, Ward Farar, manager, announced today. ■ f Continuing as a foad show attraction, the film is to be shown twice daily, at 2:30 and 8:30 p. m. "The Unguarded Hour” and "Roaming Lady,” scheduled to open at Loew’s tomorrow, are to be the attractions starting May 15.

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Jeanette Sings Old Favorites Miss MacDonald Completes 'San Francisco.’ Times Special HOLLYWOOD, May 7.—Jeanette MacDonald’s new picture, “San Francisco,” which has just been completed, should be popular if for no other reason than the revival of the old favorite song, “Love Me and the World Is Mine.” Miss MacDonald has not seen a foot of the picture. She is waiting for the preview. “I am on a two months vacation,” the actress said, “and I made up my mind when I took off my last .‘Frisco’ bonnet that I would not go back on the lot for awhile—not even to hear ‘Love Me and the World Is Mine.’ But that is only one of the well-known songs I sing in the picture. There’s ‘The Holy City,’ the ‘Jewel Song’ from the opera ’Faust,’ and ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ I sang in and for every mood. At no time have I enjoyed my film work as I do now. I always did think that operatic music would be popular when the arias became familiar to the public. It seems they are now and I am having personal satisfaction with every scene which calls for the arias I have wanted to sing for so long.” Newcomer Had Opportunity Charles Collins, who makes his bow to the screen public in the new technicolor romance, “Dancing Pirate,” first attracted the attention of Broadway theatergoers when he replaced Clifton Webb in “As Thousands Cheer.”

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fy. The bespectacled King of Swing and his attractive vocalist (above) are to be on hand Saturday night for a one-night stand at the Indiana Roof.

Actress Was Child Prodigy Grace Bradley was considered a child prodigy at the age of 6 when she gave many piano concerts throughout the East. She now is featured in “Three Cheers for Love.” Virginia Speaks Three Languages Little Virgina Weidler now playing the lead in “Girl of the Ozarks,” speaks German and French in addition to English.

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2 Graduates to Be Heard in Concerts Jordan Students’ Recitals Set for Tonight and Tomorrow Night. Two graduation recitals are to be presented by seniors of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music tonight and tomorrow night in Odeon Hall. This evening’s program is to be presented by Miss Martha Rucker, violinist and pupil of Hugh McGibeny. Francis Fitzgerald, flutist, is to be heard tomorrow. Both performances are to begin at 8:15 and are open to the public. Miss Rucker’s recital is to include two of her own compositions, “Chant” and “Burlesque.” Features of Mr. Fitzgerald’s program will be “Four Miniatures” (Gaelic) by his brother, Bernard Fitzgerald, a member of the conservatory faculty, and a performance of Phillip Emanuel Bach’s Trio Sonata in B Flat, assisted by Roger Riley, clarinet, and Harry Michels, horn. Accompanists are to be Miss Mary Kapp for Miss Rucker's program, and Ina and Bernard Fitzgerald for Mr. Fitzgerald. Miss Rucker will be heard in the following program: Concerto Beethoven Allegro ma non troppo. Larghetto. Rondo (Allegro). Ciaconna ifrom Sonata in D Minor for violin alone) ,T. s Bach “Chant'' Rucker “Burlesque” Rucker “Chorus of Dervishes” (from “The Ruins of Athens”) E'eethoven-Auer “Fantaisie de Concert” (“Carmen” ( __••• Bizet-Sarasate Mr. Fitzgeralds program includes: i Sarabande e Ciga Zipoli-Stetaccioli Sonata In A Minor (tor flute alone ( J. S. Bach Allemande. Sarabande. Bouree anglais*. IT Andante et Scherzo Ganne “Four Miniatures” (Gaelic).. Bernard Fitzgerald "Ceo na Maidne” (Morning Mist). “Rinnce Fada” (Meadow Dance). “Piobaire” (A Piper). “Port Coeil” (Jig Tune). 111 Concertino, Op. 107 Chaminade IV Trio Sonata in B Flat ,Ph. Em. Bach Allegretto. Largo. Allegro.

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Harry Carey Wants to Import Navajos Times Special HOLLYWOOD, May 7.—As soon as his current picture, “The Last Outlaw,” is completed, Harry Carey is leaving for Arizona on one of the oddest missions ever attempted by a screen star. He wants to im-

port. a number of Navajo Indians to Hollywood. Carey explains that the Navajos weave the finest Indian blankets in the world, and he wants to persuade a few families to return to Hollywood with him, to make blankets, do silver work, and also do some farming. The Western star speaks the Navajo tongue fluently, and has been corresponding with several of his prospective tenants through the government’s Indian service.

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Tech Show Is to Be May 15 Fourth Edition of ‘Sketchbook’ to Include 300 Actors in Cast. The fourth edition of the “Sketchbook of 1936,” a three-act vaudevlllt production, Is to be presented by 300 Technical High School student* and faculty members Friday evening, May 15. Chelsea Stewart i* to be in charge. The three acts of the “Sketchbook” are to be divided into 35 parts. Act I is to begin with a skit, “Times Marches On.” A mixed chorus, readings, tap dancing, a skit called “Three Little Girls," and an original play by Robert Barnet, “Hurry Home Homer” or "Darkness in the Lighthouse” are included in the act. The second act is to feature a swing band and a number of skits, including "Supermen," “The Three Gay 90's,” “The Cut Ups,” “Tech’s Own Tribe of Blackfeet,” “Eight Bones in Search of a Skeleton," “Pastoral” and band numbers. Don Baumgart and his book of 1936,” and dancing by the Sketchbook chorus are to be seen in the third act. Pupils of stage craft classes are to make settings. Music is to be by three bands, each playing in one net.

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