Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1936 — Page 4
OMPLETE CAST
Mary Young, Butler Co-ed, John McGuire, Tech Pupil, Are Given Leading Roles Many Others. Named in Supporting Parts, for t Hap:
pened in Indianapolis’; Shooting of Scenes Scheduled to Start Tomorrow.
BY JOHN W. THOMPSON The 500-mile race was an|anti-climax to the month of May as far
88 2500 local boys and girls, who applied for parts in The Times-Loew’s’
all local movie, were concerned. Yesterday they watched Leonard A. "De Menna, director, choose his cast for the picture, “It Happened in
Indianapolis,” at the Antlers, * For the two leading roles Mr, De ‘Menna has picked Miss Mary Paxton Young, 3454 Guilford-av, Butler University co-ed, who will play the of Jane in the film, and John : e, 903 N. Oxford-av, pupil at Arsenal Technical High School, who plays thé part of Bob; the high school boy about whom the film story revolves. Final Selections Are Made Miss Young and Mr. McGuire were selected after exhaustive tests on voice, lighting and dramatic abil-
Those applying were marched before several batteries of Kleig lights, asked to say several words, then either kept for further tests or eliminated. After the first general tests at 10, the selected group, made up of persons whom Mr. De Menna considered the “right type” returned at 1 for the final elimination. This consisted of line reading, stage presence, voice and diction and photographing facility. The final
~ selection of the cast was made at
9:30 last night. Those in Principal Roles
The other principal characters were cast as follows: _ Gene Dynes, 2830 N. Delaware-st, Shortridge High School pupil, as Frank; Margaret Webber, 4056 Ot-terbein-av, Manual High School, as Helen; Robert McCord, 309 N, Ar-lington-av, Technical, as Harry; Joseph Hayes, 1038 N. Shannon-av, Technical, as Ned. Also Marguerite Monninger, R. R. 17, Box 421, Cen- . tral Normal College student, as Betty; Ray Parish, 4415 E, New Yorkst, employe of local real estate firm, as master of ceremonies; Charles H. Bell, 1216 Lee-st, Technical, as Jack; Fred Kleifgen, 402 Orangest, Manual, as Phil; Philip Featherstone, 1211 Gimber-st, Technical, as Gus, and Virginia Stalcup, 2424 College-av, as the singer in the dance scenes. Understudies for the principal roles are Harold Miller, Butler University student, 3534 Carrollton-av; Rosalyn Bolser, 2855 Winthrop-av, Shortridge; Jack Thompson, 4039 - Graceland-av, Shortridge; Jane Reynolds, 60 Meridian-pl, Short- ~ ridge; Mary Jane Johnston, 1337 N. LaSalle-st, Technical, and Louise Allison, 423 S. Noble-st.
Others Given Roles
; Applicants chosen for smaller feature roles are: Jane Monaghan, Antlers Hotel, Shortridge pupil, as Nellie; Virginia Robinson, 6101 Central-av, Shortridge, as Madge; Joan Weiss, 5706 Washington-blvd, Shortridge, as - Jean; Phyllis Blue, 4726 E. Michi- . gan-st,, St. John’s Academy, as Grace; Helen Haboush, 1204 N. Olney, 8t. Mary's Academy, as Mary; Bud Raper, Plainfield, Plainfield High School pupil, as Joe; Ruth Barger, 4405 E. 34th-st, St. Mary's ° Academy, as Elaine; Otis Russell, . 36562 W. Michigan-st, Washington High School pupil, as George, and John Neale, 2620 Carrollton-av, Shortridge, door boy. Besides the principal and featured " rdles, Mr. De Menna selected a special group of approximately 300 “extra” players to appear in many of the scenes with the leading characters. Edward Green, prominent Civic . Theater player and dramatic instructor at Manual Training High School, has been chosen for the only
adult role, that of Principal Dexter.
Technical Staff Arrives : The technical staff, which will actually film and record. the all-| talking film starting tomorrow afternoon at 2 on the Shortridge High School campus, arrived late yesterday. Personnel of the staff is Irving Yates, producer; John H. Doane, production manager; Sol
Midwall, camera chief; David Wark | .
Scott, sound engineer, and Herbert |. Klawaus, makeup artist. re uction of the picture should “be completed by Wednesday, according to Director De Menna. The public is invited to attend all of the “shooting,” locations of which will be announced tomorrow. ~The completed picture will be shown at Loew's Theater as soon as ‘the editing and cutting has been finished. Then it will be sent to Hollywood for inspection by studio casting chiefs, on the lookout for
Wouthful Musicians
Program Announced ~ Mrs. Nellie S. Jackson, children’s
‘Serious’ Actor Escapes Notice
John Howard Infrequently ‘Spotted’ in Public.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 1.— John Howard belongs to the retiring school of movie players. Those who know their Hollywood insist that actors usually can be identified by a certain amount of arm waving and gesticulating, If this is true, Mr. Howard never would be picked out as an actor. ‘The fact that Mr. Howard is a Phi Beta Kappa and is given to serious speculation about life may
have a bearing on his demeanor. In any event, he is quiet, unassuming and thoroughly likeable, and he has very definite ideas and very few illusions. .
Spends Time Reading Whilé playing opposite Frances
Farmer and Grant Withers in the
new aerial adventure movie, “Border Flight,” the actor’s propensity for retirement was evident. He brought along to the studio a book, and between scenes retired to a quiet corner and read. The actor's quiet manner and speech, however, are an asset. They lend an air of sincerity—which is authentic—and give him important aid in creating characters. And no director ever complained that Mr. Howard was unprepared with his dialogue or action when a scene was ready for filming.
Piano Student to Play Here
Recital of Joan Robinson Set for Tomorrow.
Joan Robinson, 16-year-old daughter of Prof. D. S. Robinson of the Department of . Philosophy, Indiana University, is to be presented in a piano recital at 8 tomorrow night in the D. A. R. Chapter House by her teacher, Prof. Ernest Hoffmmer, director of the Indiana University School of Music. Three years ago Miss Robinson won first place in the national high schol piano competition at Chicago. Dr. Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, who was a judge at the contest at that time recommended for her a career as a concert pianist. She is now a freshman at Indiana University. Her program is to be: 1 Prelude and Fugue in A Minor..Bach-Liszt bs
Sonata, Op. 22, G Minor So rasch wie moeglic h. Andantino Scherzo—sehr rasch und Marklert, Rondo—Presto, prestissim
Schumann
Four Etudes Cho Op. 25, Nor 12, 7 and §; Op. 10, No. 5. pin Iv
““Golliwog’'s Cake Walk” Ghost 8
“A “March of the Wooden Soldiers”. .
“Ritual Fire Dance” Falla
v “St. Francis Walking on the Waves”
“La Campanella” Lisat
.Paganini-Liszt-Busoni
Newsreel Portrays Black Legion Plot
Times Special NEW YORK, June 1.—The unmasking of Detroit's infamous Black Legion is to be seen in the current issue of Universal Newsreel. Graham McNamee describes this and other important events in the reel. Other events pictured in the news movie include the raging fire that swept southern New Jersey, xilung five; Sam Small, the Sweepstakes winner, who aimee $150,000, and the welcome given Col. John C. Robinson, Negro airman who fought for Ethiopia, on his return to Chicago.
Movie to Have 400 Extras More than 400 extras will be Used in court room and traffic scenes of “And Sudden Death,” the EAT ea hes | featuring
WHERE, War, WHEN
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Times-Loew's
Movie
The local movie ambitious, 2500 of them, turned out yesterday for final tryouts for parts in The Times-Loew’s all-local picture, “It Happened in Indianapolis.” Part of the young people who were tested ‘by Director Leonard A. DeMenna, are shown right above as they watched tryouts at the Antlers.
Above, Mr. DeMenna enjoys his job of selecting leads for the large cast of amateur players which today began rehearsals. Actual filming is to begin at 2 tomorrow afternoon on the Shortridge High School campus. The
completed ‘movie is to be shown at Loew's.
Even, in His Death, Famous
Gate Crasher Tammany Young Preferred High Social Events
Figure Was an Opportunist,
Having Been Everywhere and Seen Everything.
BY PAUL HARRISON
good exit.
OLLYWOOD, June 1,—(NEA)—So Tammany Young is dead. Well, he had been everywhere, he had seen everything, and he made a Dying at the time he did, only a little past the peak of his
fame, Tammany will remain a legend.
In fact, Tammany was a gate crasher. One-eyed Connelly may have crashed more gates, but Tammany Young crashed better ‘ones. He liked uppity social affairs, doggy first nights, and luxurious travel. He was a rolling stone that had gathered a high polish. He was g bit disappointed in Hollywood, which offered scarcely any challenge to his talents. Trouble was that he came here as an actor. Being an actor, he had very little crashing to do. He was invited to partiss, and could stroll unchallenged through the gates of his home studio.
Studio Crashing Little Fun
Sometimes, just to keep in practice, he'd crash the gates of other studios. But that wasn't enough fun. : . He was an intimate of W. C. Fields, and appeared in a couple of Fields’ pictures during the 10 months or so that he was in Holly-| wood. Tammany always said that he qualified as an actor because be worked three months at pulling up|.
walk-on parts in some Belasco and Dillingham shows. Manhattan was his birthplace, |: and Tammany , actually was his name. It was a good name to mention when he wanted to get through a New York police line, and usually |, would get him clear up to the speak- |: ers’ table at public dinners. When Lindbergh was received at City Hall, Young bluffed and blustered his way through five cordons of cops, edged his way to the left hand of Jimmy Walker, and had a few congratulatory words for the daring young flyer.
Had Thirst for Culture
When he left City Hall he carried a great sheaf of tickets to the evening reception, and gave a pair to every policeman who had allowed him to pass ar had a thirst for culture,
s |and often was to be seen among the s | first-nighters at the opera and the
better plays. When=at the Metropolitan, he sat in the Golden Horseshoe—after the first act, anyway. He would come hatless into the lobby, snatch a program somewhere and would engage the first patron he met in profound discussion of the performance. : If a sporting event were really Tammany might
the football contest played Dame.
Attached Himself to Prince Mr. Young decided to go to phe polo matches at Meadowbrook Ww!
Edward, then the siting Wales, was gue hopped
t of a life to any p= Notre
He was like that—an opportunist.’
stakes for a circus. He also had}
Morris Pupils Will Be Heard
Eight Vocalists to Give Recitals This Week.
Fred Newell Morris, teacher of singing, has announced two student recitals this week, to be presented tomorrow and Friday nights at 8:15, in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church McKee Chapel. Miss
Mae Engle is to be the accompanist on.both occasions. Tomorrow night's program follows: “Dormedi Stai” Donaudy “Del mio “iss Velen Boyd. Gluc, “My Message’ d'Hardelot "BYen Bravest Heart” (“Faust”) ...Gounod Bacio’ , Richard Strothers. a
. Bel Di’ Vedremo” Butterfly,
8s Mary Fleaka. “In the Silence of Night" © “Ah_Moon ot M, Delight’ (“Persian Garden 3 Lehman
“Trego ni “Cuor me — mic non vedi’ Miss Dorot: hy L. Mor ris, Wanderers, Song”’ brid “Spanish Gold” John Bumgardner. “Je dis que. jen ne m’epouvante’’ (“Carmen’’ Bizet Miss Lucille Chaffee. “In Native Worta” (‘Creation’) .. Ha ydn “Thou Shalt Break Them’ * (“Messiah I del
Donaudy .Donaudy
“Syivenn® ‘‘Zueignung’’ Strauss Miss Suzon Osler. Egrimsa So 8 Song Ts sehaikowsky
t B okel Bro ok” “She Rested yey if r bio Taylor Earl asin
Gilley Named Head of Organists’ Guild
Members of the Indiana Chapter, American Guild of Organists, have re-elected Donald C. Gilley, Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music organ department head and Butler University Choir director, dean of the organization for the coming year. Other officers chosen at the recent election are Lee Walker, subdean; Pred Weber, treasurer; Mrs. Ovid- Dunn, secretary; Mrs. Norma Christian, registrar; Miss Carleen Roes, librarian; Paul Matthews and Clarence Elbert, auditors. Members ed the executive committee are Mrs. Edenharter, Miss Helen a and Miss Jeanette Vaughan. .
| Name Am Sothern
for Role in Comedy
Times Special “HOLLYWOOD, June 1—Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond have been cast in the top spots of “Count Pele,” 8 dramatization, of Francis S. Cockrell: s magazine story, scheduled fo uction next month. “Count Pete” is a romantic comhen | qv based on of two young college graduates who, penniless, hire themselves out as a Boag.
Rachmaninoff ; n | tier’s poem,
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MUSIC OF CLARENCE LOOMIS RATES HIGH BY FRITZ KREISLER'S ‘SPINE CHILL’ TEST
BY JAMES THRASHER When Fritz Kreisler made his famous statement that the test of a true artist was his ability to send chills do the listener’s spine, he) spoke of composers as well as interpreters. And when one hears the best of Clarence Loomis’ music, one is inclined to pass by its technical excellence, and award it the palm on the basis of this elemental but final analysis. A capacity audience heard Dr. Loomis and assisting artists in a concert of his works at the Herron Art. Institute yesterday afternoon— heard him, and stood in their places to cheer him at the concert’s conclusion. Early Compositions Presented The occasion offered as complete @& cross-section of his creative progress as has been presented since he came to Indianapolis a few years ago as head of the theory and composition department at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. For a more complete survey of Dr. Loomis’ music, it is well to consider yesterday's program in chronological order, rather than in the order of performance. The earliest work represented was the “Themes and Variations” which
form the last movement of his sonata for violin and piano. Writ-
ten in 1912, during his student | —
days, it only lacks the technical smoothness that marks the later works. The movement is stark and powerful, written with a full knowledge of both instruments; its rugged outlines are powerful and compelling as the Black Hills of the composer’s native South Dakota, where the sonata was written. After the simple setting of Whit“Thou, O Father,” written in 1915, we come to the pe-
‘riod of 1918-19, represented by the
humorous “Evolution” for chorus, the exquisite “Adagietto” for ‘cello, and the “Indian Serenade” to a text by Shelley, for string. quartet, tenor voice and piano. This serenade, heard on several previous concerts ‘here, seems to this reviewer one of the loveliest of all the composer's works. A long prelude sets the stage for the warm intensity of the vocal part. Novel in formal conception and choice of instruments, the setting seems the logical and ideal one for the poem. Best of the works written in Indianapolis, most of them for the conservatory choir, are the. choral setting of the One Hundred Thirtyninth Psalm, and the cycle, “As Life 8ings,” for soprano voice. The sincerity and drama of the first
contrast with swiftly changing
moods of Ethel O. Ferguson’s collec= tion of sensitive love songs. : Of the other recent works, the “Three Negro Moods” seemed to please the audience, though to this writer, who can: not see much point in any of the “pseudo-spirituals,” they betrayed a self-conscious striving toward comicality. The solo song, “Night of Stars,” however, was a lovely bit of delicate impressionism, ‘and three other choral numbers, “Ebb and Flow,” “White Birches in the: Rain” and “Dancer of Dreams,” to poems by Helen Quig and Max Krone, revealed again Dr. Loomis’ mastery of the choral art. To conclude the program, there were two items from the, lic choral cycle, “Erin,” to Sir Thonfas Moore’s text: the “Last Glimpse of Erin” and “Prince’s Day.” The melodic beauty, skilled craftsmanship and Gaelic flavor of these songs account for their popularity wherever sung. The performers’ assistance was enthusiastic and artistic without exception though lack of space prevents more than brief mention. Miss Martha Rucker again demonstrated her remarkable talent in the taxing violin composition, which she delivered in broad, powerful jines and with complete accuracy. Miss. Virginia Leyenberger, ‘cellist, played the “Adagietto” with depth and richness of tone, The song cycle was done by Mrs.
Assails Prison in Movie Story
‘David Lamson Says It Is
Potential Menace.
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, June 1, — California has a dangerous powder keg in its midst in San Quentin prison, and citizens of the state are responsible for this potential menace, declares David Lamson, who lived 13 months on Condemned Row. Freed by the Bupreme Court of a murder charge, Mr. Lamson is writing the movie version of his book, “We Who Are About to Die.” “Administration - officials, educational and religious workers all are doing what they can to make San Quentin a superior prison,” Mr. Lamson said, “but as long as eiti= zens of the state compel them to
keep 6000 men in w prison built to |!
accommodate 3000, all they can hope to do is to keep the lid on and prevent dangerous uprisings.”
Make Good in Home Town First,
Is Warning to Movie Ambitious
Talent Department Head Declares 8 of 9 Recruits to Hollywood Backed by Experience. :
Times Special
OIL wou. June 1.—Make good in your home town first if you career, is Jack Votion’s advice to the movie ambitious.
a Hollywood be Votion, as head of the talent
department of a large studio, knows
as well as any one in Hollywood the screen's requirements and how best
to meet
t them. “Never,” Mr. Votion emphatically states, “come to Hollywood unpre- : “record of of achievement.” recruits
‘Eight of every nine
. Another New Orleans girl, Louise Small, had experience singing in her home city before starting for
It is like this in almost all cases, according to Mr. Votion, who thinks the chances of the inexperienced in securing places 1h pictures are ‘very, very small
ING SYSTEM
Marian Green, who was in splendid voice, and caught completely the delicate and subtle shadings of the eight songs. Virgil Phemister’s powerful and resonant bass was heard to good advantage in the “Negro Moods” and as soloist with the choir. An interesting debut was that of Miss Sonja Grigo, 16-year-old mezzo-soprano, who sang the “Night of Stars” and “Thou, O Father,” to open the program. She has a natural voice of great range and beauty, and dramatic gifts far above the ordinary. Donald C. Gilley’s direction of the Butler University ‘and Jordan Conservatory Choirs was in entire sympatny with the composer’s intentions, evoking ready response and telling effects from the groups. The quartet, made up of Thomas Poggiani and Dorothy Woods, violins; Seth Cary, viola, and Miss Leyenberger, cello, gave an excellect performance, and Dr, Loomis’ orchestral and colorful accompaniments added much to the concert’s success.:
Held Instinctive Musician Summing up Dr. Loomis “as a composer, we find in his work an instinctive musicianship coupled with a technical mastery of each medium in which he works.
In the 24 years represented in yesterday's program, we find throughout a sureness of purpose.
“| There is no “groping” anywhere,
merely a different emotional con-
life.
Dr. Loomis is an instin¢tive musician, in whom each mood finds a direct translation into tone. He never is trite. His harmonic é&xpression, naturally, is modern, his thematic development logical. His conception is becoming increasingly melodic, and his dramatic thought of a more vocal, operatic nature.
Working With Opera:
Yesterday's concert does not give us a complete musical picture, for it is with the field of opera that Dr. Loomis is most concerned at present. We have heard only his first effort in that field, the one-act work, “A Night in Avignon,” and that irr concert form. Those musical centers that heard the American Opera Company's production of “Yolanda,” however, seem to have accorded him greater recognition than has been his in Indianapolis.
ception at different periods of his | Pr
No Fainting, but Hearty Laughs Due
Boland - Ruggles Comedy Billed as ‘Fun Riot’ Coming to Circle.
A lady visitor to the studio lot during the filming of “Early to Bed” took one look at its star, Char lie Ruggles, and fainted. “I get excited so easily,” she later explained. Producers of the new Ruggles picture, which is to open Friday at the Circle, don’t expect members of the audience to faint, but they do insist that the comedian and his costarring partner, Mary Boland, will cause many sides to ache from hearty: laughter.
Sleepwalking Bridegroom
“Early to Bed” is a story of a trip of a somnambulist and his bride at Lake Ookawookaboogee (we wonder how Charles will prouounce it), and is supposed to be filled with ludicrous situations involving murs der, robbery and Charlie's activie tics as glass-eye saleman. Miss Boland in “Early to Bed” makes her first screen appearance since starring in the Broadway suc=cess, “Jubilee,” and her tenth comedy in which /she co-stars with Mr, . Rusgles. They first. were cast together in “The Night of June 13,” and since have played in “Ruggles of Red Gap,” “The Big Broacicast of 1936,” as well as in other pictures in which they were featured players. i
: Split Top Billing
Usually cast as husband and wife, they share honors in their RugglesBoland or Boland-Ruggles productions. They split top billing on a turnabout basis. It is BolandRuggles in “Early to Bed,” and in their next movie it will be RugglesBoland. Another veteran of many movies and stage performances who is to be seen in “Early to Bed” is George Barbier. Mr. Barbier this fall will celebrate 50 years on stage and screen. He appeared in more than 750 stage roles under David Belasco, Henry Miller, Jahn Golden, William
100 movies. He signed his only movie contract in 1931, and now is considering its renewal this fall. He yet is undecided about a new contract or retirement. Also opening at the Circle Friday is to be “Special Investigator,” in which Richard Dix is the featured player.
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Violin, Piano Pupils Play This Evening
Violin and piano pupils of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. McKay are to be esented in recital at 8 tonight in the Westview Baptist Church. Those taking part are Helen Samuels, Patty Trefz, June Carter, Bruce Brower, Virginia Swain, Morris Mitchell, Mary Logue, Emanuel Izsak, Elnora Schooley, Eloise Roth, Stephen Rudolph, Margaret Swain and Frank Walker.
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