Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1936 — Page 15
Ex-Technical
Pupil Works for M-G-M
Another Has Scholarship With Chicago Art Institute.
BY JOE COLLIER The other day Herbert Eisenmann, who was student stage manager at Technical High School in 1933, got a job
a technician on the M.-G.-|.
M. lot in Hollywood, so this department hurried right out to see the man who made him that way. That man is Chelsey Stewart, who has the horse-
and-buggy era title of head of
the Decorative Arts Department, which long ago was established io teach students about interior decorating and such. Mr, Eisenmann, incidentally, was an interior decorator in a San ~Diego shop, or perhaps shoppe, for a year and a half before he connected with M-G-M. It developed from .a conversation with Mr. Stewart that another «alumnus of Tech also is headed for good things in the technical side of the theater. John Minatel, who was student stage manager last year and who was graduated in June, is at work in the Goodman Theater, workshop of the Chicago Art Institute, on a scholarship.
Studies Stage Lighting
The Goodman Theater, a heavily endowed institution with a beautiful playhouse, only recently began offering scholarships in the technical side of the theater. Mr, Minatel is specializing in - stdge lighting. His scholarship runs for one year. Robert Youngling, 918 E. 10th-st, Tech senior, has been appointed student stage manager this year. For his services in arranging technical details of Tech's 35 stage performances this year, he is to receive
‘'eredit.
The course is limited to 50 students and those enrolling are allowed their preference of any of various jobs. Some take stage carpentry, some electrical work, some specialize in stagé properties. There were 1200 persons in the cast of “The Glory Road,” which was given by Tech actors in 1933 and again by request in 1934.. That took some stage managing, Mr. Stewart says. Tech’s Schedule Heaviest
Tech has the heaviest stage
. schedule of any of Indianapolis’
public high schools. It also has the most complete theater training. For instance, before long Mr. Stewart may inaugurate a class in ushering. The Senior play this year is to be “Rollo’s Wild Oat.” It is sched-
_ uled for Nov. 20. Mr. Stewart says
he believes that the time may come when new, and even controversial plays, will be done by the students. He says that the day of presenting a play just because it is a play is practically over. Other work Mr. Stewart's department plans includes redecoration of Principal De Witt Morgan's office, and building of exhibits for the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science which is to meet here in December; 1937. Nobody's worried about the sci-
‘ence exhibit, but every one in the
department is more or less on edge about the principal's office. It seems he can not be persuaded to “put on the dog” in the matter of office decoration, yet every one about the school feels he should not continue to operate in an office that looks for all the world like a damp morgue. That's the way things stand on
that.
~ Murfin,
Writer Is to Take Vacation in Alaska
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13—Jane ranked as Hollywood's busiest screen writer, will leave for Alaska shortly on her first vacation in three years upon completing the script for Edna Ferber's best-sell-ing novel of the lumber camps, “Come and Get It,” featuring Ed-
« ward Arnold, Joel McCrea and » Frances Farmer.
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Miss Murfin plans to sail her 90foot yacht to the Aleutian Islands, spending more than two months on the trip.
Eo Back to First Title for Picture
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. title of the Allene Corliss story that will be Joan Bennett's next starring film for Walter Wanger has been
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changed from “All Ladies Are Women” back to the original “Summer Lightning.” William K. Howard has been as-
Signed to. direct the production, Which Will gv. before the camer
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Her teachers have been Adolph Bohm, Stefano Stefano, Ivan Trasso, Andreas Pavley and Serge Ourainsky. Miss Randolph's teaching experience includes five ’ years as assistant to Laurent Novikoff, Anna Pavlowa's former dancing partner. A new class in piano = teaching methods, taught by Bomar Cramer, head of the conservatory piano department, is to meet on alter-
Miss Randolph
ning this week. The course, which is open to all interested persons, is to include lectures on the principles of piano technique, and technical and emotional approach to various types of piano literature, with demonstrations at the keyboard. Class members may bring pupils to the class for diagnosis of technical ailments and suggested. cures, Mr. Cramer said. : Rolla W. Farmer, instructor in speech and drama, has been appointed to the department headed this year by Mrs. Jane Ogburn Bruce, who held a similar position at Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., before coming to the local conservatory. A graduate of the North Shore Theater Guild School’ in Evanston, Ill, Mr. Farmer has been director of the Terre Haute Community Theater, is a former member of the Indiana Universiay traveling theater; and has directed dramatic productions for station WBOW, Terre Haute.
MARY MAKES MERRY Mary Carlisle, who has been spending the summer months in Europe, writes friends in Hollywood saying that she has just completed a motor trip through Italy,
Switzerland and Germany. She plans to return in the late fall.
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Arthur Jordan Conservatory Plans Dance Presentations!
Ambitious Schedule Worked Out by New Department Head; Other Classes Are Announced.
Preparation for the most ambitious schedule of dance presentations ever given at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music are under way, directed by Miss Gloria Randolph, new department head. Miss Randolph was the premiere danseuse for Chicago's Ravinia Park | opera productions for two years, and has appeared with the Chicago Civic Opera, as well as in Cuba, Mexico and South America.
Sutherland Players
to Choose Vehicles|| ° With the first performance scheduled for next month, Norman Green, Sutherland Players director,
today announced the list of plays,
from which the organization's 1936-
37 productions will be chosen. The list, composed largely of plays recently seen on the New York stage, includes, “Big-Hearted Herbert,” “The Ghost Train,” “Ladies of the Jury,” “Holiday,” “Little Women,” “Seventeen,” “The Queen's Husband” and “The Torch Bearers.” Productions, Mr. Green said, again are to be given at the Sutherland Presbyterian Church, 2801 Guil-ford-av. Two new courses are being offered in .the . Sutherland Drama school this year, Mr. Green noted, as the sessionse began this week. Instruction in ‘self-expression and stage ‘illusion -are being. given by Mss, Virginia Brackett Green, he said.
CLAIRE TREVOR BUYS HOME
Claire Trevor has purchased a hose and is planning its redecoraon
WITH QUINTUPLETS CAST
Katherine Alexander has joined the cast of “Reunion,” starring the Dionne uintuplens.
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN
APOLLO “Midsummer Nigne's Dream,” with James Cagney. Brown, Dick Powell an ie at hi: 34, 2: 05, 4:36, 7:07 and 9:38.
CIRCLE
“Hollywood Boulevard,” with John Halliday, Marsha Hunt and Robert Cummings at 11, 1:40, 4:20, 6:35
and 9:33. “Walking on’ Air,’ with Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern at 12:16,
2:56, 5:36, 8:09 and 10:4
LOEW'S
‘“They Met in a Taxi’ with Chester Morris, Fay Wray pnd Joona Stander at 11:33, 2:38, 5:43 and 8:48. “The Devil Is a Siss " with Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney at 12:48, 3:53, 6:58
and 1 LYRIC
“The Magnificent Brute” with. Victor McLain and Binnie Barnes at 11:30, 1:40, 3:50, 6, 8:20 and 10:30. Stage tn with Ted Lewis, and me wing at 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:30 and
. ALAMO “Suzy,” with Jean Harlow. Also “Thunder,” with Constance Bennett.
AMBASSADOR
“China Clipper,” with Pat O'Brien. Also “Three Cheers for Love
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“Rhythm on the Range,” with Bing ; Crosby. Also ‘“Dan’t Bet on Love,’ with Ginger Rogers.
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Make Movie {in Harmony
Actresses Jealous? Not at All, Director Zanuck Discovers.
It isn’t always the fools who rush in where angels fear to tread. If you know your movie producers, you know that Darryl F. Zanuck is a smart young man. find an “angel,” Broadway or Hollywood variety, who would have dared to pick Mr. Zanuck’s cast for “Ladies in Love.” :
When you put four: top-ranking actresses in a picture and give them equally important roles, you have a temperamentally combustible ' combination. That is evident, though it never has been done before. Yet he selected Janet Gaynor, Loretta Yourig, Constance Bennet and Simone Simon. And the fact that “Ladies in Love” is opening at the Appollo Friday with no major production casualties seems to be a triumph for Mr. Zanuck’s foresight and good taste, as well as for the four-star combination’s good sportsmanship. From all we can hear, the young ladies acted as though their names in bright lights at the top of the marquee meant nothing. They bent over backward to keep from stealing scenes. But, just the same, an argument developed during the first day’s shooting. .« Miss Gaynor’s Best There were four dressing rooms— complete, portable one-room houses —on the set, one for each star. Miss Gaynor’'s was quite elaborate; Miss Bennett's, though comfortable, was of decidedly modest design. So Miss Gaynor, since she is a veteran around thé Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox studios, said .-that Ishe should trade dressing ‘rooms with Miss Bennett who, making her first picture on the lot, ought to be treated as a guest. . No, insisted Miss Bennett. Janet She would e an interloper. She would be unfair. In fact she would be darned if 'she’d take Janet's dressing room away jrom her. ‘Thefi up spoke Director Edward H. Griffith, right when the argument was at its height. A few quiet words, and the mutually modest actresses’ difficulty was settled.
Miss Gaynor. All Ended Happily From there on out things moved smoothly. The climax to this smooth sailing came at the end of a hard day’s work near the close of production. Each star cast a pitying glance upon her tired and hungry co-workers, and each had the same inspiration. The result—30 miutes later four trucks, from differet caterers, rolled up with enough coffee and sandwiches to feed all the extras in “Anthony Adverse,” say nothing of the “Ladies in Love” cast. The stars ‘decided that the joke, as well as the treat; was on them.
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Music School Lists Officers
Fall Program Inaugurated at _ Burroughs-Jackson.
Fall activities at .the BurroughsJackson College of Music and Fine Arts include election of new. officers for the school choir and Voice Club, new drama courses under the direction of Mrs. Eugene Fife, and reorganization of the “Ariannas,” a group of young singers directed by Miss Edith Jane Fish. Heading the choir, which is conducted by Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, the school’s director, are the following officers: Miss Iris Prince, president; Miss Frieda Jones, secretary; Bhular Flanders, treasurer; Robert Gardner, business manager,
{and Miss Harriet Leake, librarian.
The Voice Club has elected Mrs. Lenore Ivey Frederickson, faculty sponsor; Harry Carson, president; Miss Betty Bollinger, first vice president; Miss Dorothy Falvey, second vice president, and Miss Alice Earle, secretary. The club is made up of all voice students in the school, with associate memberships available to persons interested in vocal music. Programs of lectures, recitals, music study and social hours are given each month at the Washington Hotel. : a Mrs. Fife is offering classes in choral speech and its teaching methods, stagecraft, scenic design and building, stage lighting, makeup and direction.
Shirley Will Have Very Busy Winter
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—Shirley Temple is'going to have a very busy time this winter. As soon as she finishes “Heidi,” the Johanna Spyri novel just bought for her, she will go right into Kipling’s “Wee Willie Winkie.”
[Spirit Intact
in Spite of
Money Difficulties, Vocal
Club Votes to
to ‘Carry On’
Members of Oldest Musical Instit Institution Decide They Will Keep Up Tradition Under Circumstances Similar to Those That Faced Founders.
BY JAMES THRASHER It takes more than monetary difficulties to whip an 82-year-old tradition and a love of singing. So today the Indianapolis Maennerchor, its name, fame and spirit intact, still exists as the city’s oldest and one of its most significant
musical institutions.
Where and when the society will sing next was not decided at a meeting of the board of directors, active and passive members in the Academy of Music. last night. After
considering all angles of the present situation, however, |\ the club decided unanimously to maintain its present title and purpose. Fred W. Pintzke, the singing society's vice president, opened the meeting with a sketch of the society’s history up to the present. He paid tribute to the late John P. Frenzel for his “princely lavish-
ness” of time and money in the Maennerchor’s behalf.
No Guarantor for Founders
Of the founders Mr. Pintzke said, ‘“Thére was no guarantor or ‘sugar daddy’ for these men. They brought the society up from insignificance to one of the finest organizations of its kind in this part of the country through their own efforts. “Theirs was a militant action. Working shoulder to shoulder, they achieved social as well as musical triumphs such as this city never has seen.” There are few people with the cultural and musical interest of Indianapolis at heart who will not be happy to know that this timehonored institution is to remain with us. Its members will face circumstances as trying as those which confronted the founders. They must proceed by their own enthusiasm and industry in their continued existence. But in last night's discussion they turned the corner and started back in a manner that does not seem likely to fail.
HEAVIEST DE MILLE SET Cecil B. DeMille, long famous for building the largest sets in Hollywood, has now built the heaviest. It is an island constructed for “The Plainsman,” in which he stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, and weighs more than 50 tons.
"THEY MET IN A TAXI
‘Nine Days a Queen’
Wins Film Award
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—Arthur A. Lee, vice president of GB, ane nounced this week that the annual award of the Venice Film Exhibition for finest film photography was captured this year py “Nine Days a Queen,” which has Cedric Hardwicke and Nova Pilbeam in the stellar role. The award is a personal tribute to Mutz Greenbaum, ace cameraman, who photographed the pice hure on the new color-sensitive ilm,
VETERAN ACTOR Richard Carle, member of the cast of “Arizona Mahoney,” the Joe Cook comedy, was starred in the show that opened the New Amster= dam Theater in New York, the theater which was made world-fa« mous by the late Florenz Zeigfeld.
WORK WORTH WHILE
Filming of Leopold Stokowsk! and his symphony orchestra in “The Big Broadcast of 1937” required two days of camera work, although the sequence is on the screen only about five minutes.
FRIDAY / : THE BIG BROADCAST
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