Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1937 — Page 8

Fame Nice, But Not So Convenient

Local Girl Likes Job With Bowes Unit, but Misses Sightseeing.

By JAMES THRASHER There is a tendency to view some of our national landmarks, like the Statue of Liberty or “Tobacco Road” or Maj. Bowes’ “Original Amateur Hour,” with complacent acceptance, if not downright

forgetfulness. So the time seemed right to prod our national consciousness a bit. That thought suggested a chat with Miss Florence Izor, Indianapolis xylophonist who joined the Bowes “Second Anniversary Radio Revue” when it opened at the Lyric Friday.

Miss Izor turned out to be the logical person to see in a checkup on the “amateur hour” of current vintage. She combines enthusiasm and the objective viewpoint in judicious proportions. The fact is, Miss Izor has not always been an avid Bowes 'enthusiast—though it isn’t a thing she boasts of. That gives her the required objectivity. Also, she likes Maj. Bowes and intends to be a regular listener from now on. That adds the other ingredient.

New York Postmark Needed

So, with perfect confidence in our interlocutor, we may -once more tread the path that leads from obscurity to fame. First of all, you mail a letter of application with a New York postmark, just as Miss Izor did. You get an appointment for an audition, wait with scores of others, and finally are heard by an audition committee of six.

If you are accepted, you go to rehearsal on Wednesday. There the work begins. Your act is timed and usually cut. The performance is smoothed out and your lines are rehearsed, though there is no written script for you. When the broadcast night comes, you sit in the audience and go before the microphone when your name is called. You don’t look at the Major during your preliminary dialog. He sits about 20 feet away, to the left and a little behind the performer. You speak directly into the microphone when you answer his questions. You do see the gong, though, when you ascend to the stage. And Miss Izor said it made her a little nervous, even though she knew it’s little more than an ornament these days. The theater is large—‘larger than the Indiana,” Miss Izor estimated —and, unlike many radio shows, you have to buy a ticket. Even the performers aren't admitted without passes. Even so, the local xylophonist said, seats are selling for several weeks in advance. “The night I was on, there were a lot of Legionnaires there,” Miss Izor said. “There was also a movie actress who plays Charlie Ruggles’ wife—not Mary Boland, but the other , one; I can’t think of her name." Neither could the interviewer. Miss Izor didn't know she was to be with the Lyric until it was

© announced during the broadcast.

She was hustled into a plane and arrived home at 4:30 a. m. Friday. Since then she has spent most of her time at the Lyric. She said there is no time to go out home to 412 W. 21st st. between performances. But the family gets to the theater occasionally. Miss Izor doesn’t look like a show girl. She looks like the 17-year-old Hoosier youngster that she is. Her professional appearances have been limited to private parties and a performance at her Shortridge Graduation Day party last spring. Likes Her Company

She has been studying the xylophone only four years, but she is signed to a year’s contract (she thinks it is for a year) to begin something after her guest appearance this week. She hopes she can go with the Second Anniversary unit, for she knows and likes its members. Miss Izor is pardonably proud of her present success because, as she said, “I had no ‘pull’—and it proves an amateur really can make good on the Bowes program!” But she's a little disappointed, too. She originally went to New York to visit her aunt on Long Island and to see the “big city” for the first time. About all she saw was the subway and the CBS studios.

Lopez Booked

Vincent Lopez and his orchestra are to make their first Indianapolis appearance on Oct. 6, when they are booked for -a one-night stand at the Indiana Roof. | Appearing with the famous dance pianist will be such entertainers as Johnny Morris, Fred Lowry, Lois Still, Bob Litell, Ernie Mathias and Bob Snell, whose offerings are familiar to radio listeners. The O. E. S. convention has engaged the Indiana Roof for a private dance tonight. Public dancing will be resumed to- ° morrow evening with Eddie Conti and his orchestra of- ~ ficiating.

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If all the fireworks, large and small, set off by the American Legionnaires could have been piled on one big heap and ignited at once, the detonation would have made the battlefield at Verdun sound like a “Quiet Please” hospital zone.

Kaufman-Hart musical show, “I'd

Rather Be Right” will be a meeting between President Roosevelt and

the Cabinet on a lovers’ bench in Central Park. And every now and then, the Supreme Court will bob

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up from behind park boulders to apply their fingers to its collective lips, shush the executive branch, and put down any al fresco legislation on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. ” ” ” PARTMENT houses now being built in London are ‘way

Crosby and Martha aye, at 12:38, 3:48 6:58 and 10:18. “Flight From Glory,” with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, aft 11:31, 2:41, 5:51 and 9:01.

CIRCLE “Varsity Show,” with Dick Powell, Fred Waring, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, at 11, 1:42, 4:24, 7:06 and 9:48. KEITH'S yaundeyllio) on stage. ah 0 ndell Hal 6:50 9:2

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eyelashes. pean kind. man who turned over his Chateau

ahead of ours. Each new flat in the city by the Thames has two television outlets for tenants’ use. They are pretty much the same as our electric light floor plugs.

new daughter -in -law, Tallulah Bankhead, for the first time a couple of nights ago. Mighty pleased, too. They say Marlene Dietrich phoned New York last week from France for a dozen pairs of fake Doesn't ‘like the EuroCharles Bedaux, the

Frees and Luise gRainer, at 12:29, 3:45, 7:01 and 1 “The Girl Said "No,” with Irene Hervey. Robert Armstrong and Gilbert and 4 Sudiiivan stars, at 11, 2:16,

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“Waikiki Wedding,”” with Bing Crosby. Also “Born Reckless” with Rochelie Hudson.

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“Dance, Charlie Dance.” with Stuart Erwin. Also “Case of the Stut-

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de Cande at Monts, France, to the Duke of Windsor for his bridal, is just -as hospitable with his Manhattan domicile. lavish New York apartment to Gertrude Lawrence, one of the queens of the London stage.

” ” ” T didn’t make the cable reports Bat when Maurice Chevalier left his starring role at the Casino de Paris in Paris, a. friend writes, to go over to London and make a film for Rene Clair, it was all pretty. sudden. So sudden, the customers that night had not been told about it. With the result that they staged a riotous complaint strike in the lobby that developed into one of the most hectic demonstrations Paris has witnessed in a long while. It got so out of hand that the Paris reserves were called out and one customer haled into night court. Chevalier’s spot in the show was taken over by Raquel Meller, and you are right in wondering how she felt. Report is that Congressman Zioncheck’s widow and Senator Pat Harrison’s son are planning a tour of the European night clubs as a dance team. Incidental information: There was a Big Apple Restaurant just off Broadway long before the dance became a popular rage. London movie

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a bathtub scene in the comedy, “The Women,” the other night! She escaped in time. Jascha Heifetz is the latest of the musicians to hark to the call of the. cinema moguls. Boy Scouts attended Yo. those Legionnaires who might have been a wee bit d—er—inebriated during the gala parade up Fifth Ave. They did many good deeds that day! Latest of the Hollywood queens to be regarded for a Broadway play is Madge Evans. The Shuberts have addressed a script to her with the request that she pronounce judgment and if found to be O. K, that she come East quickly to appear in it. Ted Peckham’s Guide & Escort Service for lonely ladies has doubled its business during the past year, in case you’ve wondered how business was.

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Local Choir Is to Begin Rehearsal

Symphonic Body to Meet For Registration - Tonight.

Beating the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to a first rehearsal by more than a month, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir is to meet tonight for registration and initial practice. Director Elmer A. Steffen has called the rehearsal for 7:30 o'clock in the Athenaeum, The choir’s first appearance with the orchestra will be in December, when it will sing Kodaly’s “Psalmus Hungaricus,” for tenor and double ‘chorus. Another choral number may be included on the same program, Mr. Steffen announced. Weekly rehearsals are scheduled throughout November, and dates for

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body in many years. Membership is drawn from the former Mendelssohn Choir as well as from the sity S younger singers. ; - ” 8 Three programs of music by contemporary Americans will be presented next month by the Federal Music Project of Indianapolis. The

concerts will be given in the Odeon, 106 E. North St. through the courtesy of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. Dates are Oct. 14, 21 and 28, and all concerts are scheduled for 8:15 p. m. The WPA Concert Orchestra, under Paul Fidlar’s direction; the city’s massed Parent-Teacher choruses and the WPA Negro male quintet are to take part. Composers to be represented in the programs will include Charles Wakefield Cadman, Quinto Maganini, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Foote, Werner Janssen, Paul White and Homer Grunn.

SCREEN RECORD

“High Flyers,” Wheeler and Woolsey’s latest for RKO, marks the comedians’ 21st comedy vehicle in the past eight years and establishes a record for screen teams in feature productions.

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With 225 memberships already in, Civic Theater subscription solicitors are starting out on the second day of their active campaign drive today. Campaigners are to meet tomore row for the second of three reportluncheons scheduled this week at the Town Tavern. The first, yesterday, was attended by about 100 members. Walter E. Jackson, camepaign committee chairman, presided. Team 3 of the First Division, headed by Miss Eldina Lauter, took

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